Bla | Bla | Bla

Features
Price FREE
Age Range All Ages
App Type Leisure App
Version Reviewed 1.1
Android Available?
Lite Version Available?
Help Provided?

Bloom's Thinking Process
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering

Adaptability
Includes images

Review Comments
Bla Bla Bla includes drawings of faces which react to speech volume. The child chooses one of 16 face drawings and you are ready to play. When the speech volume increases the faces change. Some of the mouths and eyes grow larger. This app gives visual feedback. I have used it to reward young children who are starting to vocalise. I have used it as a self monitoring app for speech volume. It is also a great cause-effect app.

Review Comments

Bla Bla Bla includes drawings of faces which react to speech volume.

The child chooses one of 16 face drawings and you are ready to play. When the speech volume increases the faces change. Some of the mouths and eyes grow larger.

This app gives visual feedback. I have used it to reward young children who are starting to vocalise. I have used it as a self monitoring app for speech volume. It is also a great cause-effect app.

Use	Rank (*)
Self Management		Ranked 7th of 9
Top Apps for Late Talkers		Ranked 9th of 14

(*) This app has been ranked according to its' effectiveness to achieve the learning goals and strategies listed. Some apps may rank highly for achieving a specific use and lower for other uses. Some students will learn and engage with one app more than others, because of the individual nature of us all.

Leisure App
Leisure apps are games designed for fun but can still offer a wonderful opportunity to support the student's learning.

Bloom's Thinking Process
Bloom's Taxonomy is classification system used to explain the behaviours important in learning. Apps range from simple memory tasks such as flashcards apps through to creative apps which ask students to create an original story or video.

Bloom's Creating
The student creates new ideas, products or ways of viewing things. Activities include making, animating, designing, constructing, planning, producing and inventing.

Bloom's Evaluating
The student justifies a decision or course of action. Activities include counting to check, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting and judging.

Bloom's Analysing
The student breaks the information into parts to explore understandings and relationships. Activities include explaining, ordering, inferring, comparing and organising.

Bloom's Applying
The student uses the information in a new situation. Activities include implementing, carrying out, using, illustrating, classifying and categorising.

Bloom's Understanding
The student comprehends the new information. Activities include describing, predicting showing understanding use a multiple choice.

Bloom's Remembering
The student recalls information they know. Activities include matching, 'fill in the blank', making a choice, answering using a multiple choice, naming a group.

Learning Connection
How well does the app teach the targeted skill or concept? This is the area where we refer to current research and pedagogy to evaluate the efficacy of the app.

Authenticity
Authenticity looks at the manner in which skills are learnt. Authentic apps use real life or genuine activities. Students learn in context rather than in a contrived or rote fashion (such as flashcards).

Feedback
Feedback needs to be specific and result in improved performance. Feedback should be supportive and encouraging rather than negative. Data should be available to support decision making.

Differentiation
Differentiation is the ability to customise the app to suit the student. The ability to record you voice, customise text, add pictures and alter settings enables individualisation of the app.

User Friendliness
User friendliness is a measure of how well a student can use the app independently. Some apps are simply intuitive to use. Others include audio or visual prompts which support the student.

Motivation
All apps are engaging the first time they are played. However, students with diverse learning needs may need to return to the app many times. Motivating apps offer rewards,games or incentives.

Self Management
Self-management or self monitoring is a behavioural strategy where the child self-monitors and self-reinforces their own behaviours. Children can manage their own social skills, emotions or behaviours. Also see Reward, Counters and Rating Scale apps.

Top Apps for Late Talkers
This is a list of the Top Apps for Late Talkers

From the App Store

Developer lorenzo bravi
App Store Rating (from 1 reviews)
Current Version Rating (from 1 reviews)
Current Version 2.0

Developer's Description
The iOS App is largely used in speech therapy, especially with young children (aged 0-3 years) and with autistic people and stroke patients. Bla Bla Bla is a sound reactive application for iPhone and iPad. This app derives from an exercise called “Parametric Mask”. The exercise was part of a one-day workshop held in December 2010 at the design department of IUAV, in Venice, and in February 2011 at the ISIA of Urbino. The aim of the workshop, called “Procedures of Basic Design”, is to go beyond the classic exercises about shape and perception that characterize the Basic Design course. These new exercises introduce the use of a programming language as a problem-solving tool, but the workshop itself is not focused on programming: the language is a tool, a way to use numbers, math and logic to show objectively how to solve a design problem. The course was aimed to first year students with no coding experience. The language used in workshop activities was Processing. The porting for iOs was written in Open Frameworks. IUAV Treviso Workshop 09-10/12/2010 Prof. Givovanni Anceschi Tutor Silvia Schiaulini ISIA Urbino Workshop 01-02/02/2011 Prof. Nunzia Coco – All the results and more information can be find at www.lorenzobravi.com – Bla Bla Bla App and Procedures of Basic Design are projects by Lorenzo Bravi

Developer's Description

The iOS App is largely used in speech therapy, especially with young children (aged 0-3 years) and with autistic people and stroke patients.

Bla Bla Bla is a sound reactive application for iPhone and iPad. This app derives from an exercise called “Parametric Mask”. The exercise was part of a one-day workshop held in December 2010 at the design department of IUAV, in Venice, and in February 2011 at the ISIA of Urbino. The aim of the workshop, called “Procedures of Basic Design”, is to go beyond the classic exercises about shape and perception that characterize the Basic Design course. These new exercises introduce the use of a programming language as a problem-solving tool, but the workshop itself is not focused on programming: the language is a tool, a way to use numbers, math and logic to show objectively how to solve a design problem. The course was aimed to first year students with no coding experience. The language used in workshop activities was Processing. The porting for iOs was written in Open Frameworks.

IUAV Treviso Workshop
09-10/12/2010
Prof. Givovanni Anceschi
Tutor Silvia Schiaulini

ISIA Urbino Workshop
01-02/02/2011
Prof. Nunzia Coco

– All the results and more information can be find at www.lorenzobravi.com

– Bla Bla Bla App
and Procedures of Basic Design are projects by Lorenzo Bravi

Disclaimer: The evaluations and rankings information provided here are based solely on the opinion of the author and are for informational purposes only. Families should seek professional advice before making decisions regarding interventions for their child.