http://www.appcraver.com/monsterabc/ App Reviews for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.appcraver.com/monsterabc/#comment-11522 Phyliss Flower Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:25:01 +0000 http://www.appcraver.com/?p=21992#comment-11522 I am a speech-language pathologist who works with preschool and school age children who have speech, language, learning difficulties. I also am a mom and grandmother. I loaded this app on my iphone with my 3 year old grand daughter in mind. What a disappointment. Whoever wrote this may have graphics skills but knows nothing about phonics. The voice pronounces several of the vowels all the same as "uh" (instead of the short "a" sound as in apple, or short "e" sound as in elephant). For starters, all the vowels have different sounds and those weren't even the correct ones. The consonant sounds were inconsistent, that is some sounds were correct and some not. A consonant sound should only be taught as the sound itself, not with a vowel sound attached or the child is not learning the true sound in isolation. So for example, "p" is not pronounced "puh" but should be pronounce "p" without using your voice. This app will teach phonics incorrectly. Do not buy it. I am a speech-language pathologist who works with preschool and school age children who have speech, language, learning difficulties. I also am a mom and grandmother. I loaded this app on my iphone with my 3 year old grand daughter in mind. What a disappointment. Whoever wrote this may have graphics skills but knows nothing about phonics. The voice pronounces several of the vowels all the same as “uh” (instead of the short “a” sound as in apple, or short “e” sound as in elephant). For starters, all the vowels have different sounds and those weren’t even the correct ones. The consonant sounds were inconsistent, that is some sounds were correct and some not. A consonant sound should only be taught as the sound itself, not with a vowel sound attached or the child is not learning the true sound in isolation. So for example, “p” is not pronounced “puh” but should be pronounce “p” without using your voice. This app will teach phonics incorrectly. Do not buy it.

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