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Minimal Pair Pack

Colorful square image of a drawing of a smiling dinosaur holding two balloons.Screenshot showing two cards with a symbol and word on them and an X or a checkmark next to them.
Product Type: 
Device modifier
Manufacturer Name: 
Therapy Box
Approximate Cost: $4.00

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Product Description: 

Minimal Pair Pack is a speech training and language tutorial app designed for use by therapists and teachers working with individuals who have communication or speech disabilities such as dysphasia, dyslexia or dysgraphia.

Main Features: 

  • It is designed to be a fun and engaging application for working on speech sound discrimination and production.
  • It is designed for children whose speech is still developing, but it can be useful for several different people.
  • It can be set up by parents, teachers, and speech pathologists and can be used in both listening and practicing for speaking modes, using phrase completion tasks.
  • There are settings to turn the Dubdub styling off if the app is being used with an older child or an adult.
  • The program targets the following speech sounds in the initial, medial, final and blend position of words: p, b, m, n, t, d, k, g, f, v, s, z, dz (as in jam), j (as in yacht), w, r, l, th, sh, ch.
  • The user can choose to work on sounds at the beginning of words (such as wing and ring), the middle (open and ocean), the end (bed and bet), or in blends (such as clock compared to lock).
  • Each task can be modified to have the symbol and text, just the text or just the symbol.
  • At the end of each set, the user can watch motivational videos of Dubdub and see the results.
  • Results can be shared via email so the parent or therapist can keep a track of progress made by the student.
  • Over 700 individual target words.
  • Targets auditory discrimination (identifying the difference between sounds in words).
  • The app covers all consonants in English and offers both English and American voices.
  • Option to present the cards with symbol only, symbol + word or word only.
  • Spoken cues.
  • Engaging and colorful Widgit symbols.
  • Fun and motivational videos.
  • Fun sounds used as a reinforcement to aid learning (can also be turned off).
  • The option of two themes (Dubdub’s theme or simple -- adult-friendly -- theme).
  • Visual feedback on each item.
  • Automatically keeps track of accuracy.
  • Email results table (includes the performance of each item within the set and the overall percentage correct within the set.
  • Parental control menu access.
  • Information from a resident speech therapist.
  • Enables self-directed learning and continuation of therapy at home.

Primary Specifications: 

  • Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
  • Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

More Information: 

See product in Apple’s App Store.