Apps for Hearing
Submitted by Linda Mamer on Jul 14, 2014
This post is a collection of my favorite applications (apps) related to hearing, speech work, and sign language. This list may be helpful to anyone working with children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind, including Speech Language Pathologists (SLP), teachers, interveners, and family members. Please let us know if you have other apps to add to this list!
Hearing Apps
| Professional-grade sound level meter, also known as a decibel or dB meter. | |
| A hearing loss screening test which allows users to test hearing to determine if it is within normal range, or detect potential hearing loss. | |
| Allowws users to choose a specific hearing loss configuration and then listen to sounds as though they have that particular hearing loss. | |
| This app examines hearing to determine impairments based on how well users can detect words in background noise. | |
| Most feature packed decibel meter on iTunes. | |
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Professional sound meter, precisely measures the sound pressure level all around you. |
| Measures the volume and helps you figure out how big the noise level compared to a benchmark. | |
| This app uses the internal microphone to estimate the sound pressure level in decibels (dB SPL). | |
| This app allows you to see volume levels in a simple form. | |
| Create different frequencies, drive insects away or compare your hearing ability with your friends and relatives and share your results. | |
| Clear full color images and animation, with an ear drum video, shows the normal outer, middle and inner anatomy of the ear. |
Speech Work
| The animations inside this app take the areas of the face that impede the view of tongue placement and positioning and make them transparent. | |
| Touch text documents and web pages, copy & paste, key in, then it will speak and translate sentence by sentence. | |
| Articulation enhancement and language improvement. | |
| Learn how to pronounce and practice the consonantal sounds in the English language with 6 fantastic and engaging articulation activities. | |
| Multiple choice quiz system for English which provides 700 common idiomatic questions across different topic & categories with explanations of 619 Idioms with meanings & examples. | |
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This easy game will teach and reinforce letter sounds and phonics skills. |
| Visualize in real-time the frequencies that you can hear around you and even those you cannot. |
Signing
| This app encourages and enables people to learn British Sign Language (BSL) alphabet and practice at their own pace. | |
| From A-Z The most complete interactive ASL Dictionary app. | |
| Designed for parents teaching their children to sign that uses video a live signer and has audio. | |
| Translate English into ASL, from A-Z, plus the entire numerical system, common English phrases, symbols and much more. | |
| This app will teach you the fundamentals of ASL – from the signed alphabet and basic vocabulary through to common expressions in everyday life – using high-quality video demonstrations starring Marlee Matlin herself. | |
| Best-selling children’s stories animated by ITV with narration, music and fun learning games, BSL and ASL options, free book and vocabulary builder. |
Please note that you may need to check whether the app has been updated or whether it only works with certain operating systems. This page was last updated on 3/4/2022.
