Everyday Speech is enhancing its flagship product Social Learning Platform  with an expanded SEL curriculum, personalized dashboard, and new instructional supports.

The Social Learning Platform provides centralized access to SEL video lessons, printable activities, and online games. The enhanced online platform now includes a full SEL curriculum with hundreds of new, ready-made SEL lessons. 

The Social Learning Platform dashboard is now personalized to each educator, based on the materials they use. Educators can also create and save their own playlists of content, or they can access guided lists to help them work toward specific SEL goals.

The Social Learning Platform includes new training videos with tips and ideas from Brunell. There are also new posters and visual aids that can be printed and displayed in the classroom or sent home for skill reinforcement. 

The Social Learning Platform works on any computer, laptop, or iPad, and runs entirely in the web browser or iPad app so there is nothing to install.

Proloquo2Go - Symbol-based AAC

Brilliant tool helps kids with speech difficulties communicate

Pros: Numerous options allow adults to customize the app to suit students' abilities and needs.

Cons: There's potential for frustration if customizations and settings aren't chosen carefully.

Bottom Line: The price is hefty, but Proloquo2Go carries its weight by providing students and teachers an effective, one-of-a-kind communication tool.

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Istation is partnering with Boulder Learning to develop Istation’s Oral Reading Fluency and Listening Comprehension Program by incorporating speech-recognition technology. Istation will adapt Boulder Learning’s existing speech-recognition and assessment product, FLORA (Fluent Oral Reading Assessment), for large-scale deployment in classrooms.

The new Istation program will use advanced speech-recognition technology to analyze what students say and how fluently they speak.

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Istation will launch a pilot program with manual scoring during the 2018-2019 school year that will record students’ reading and allow teachers to manually score and log the results.

Boulder Learning will analyze the pilot data to program the assessment and automate scoring. Once fully developed, the product will give teachers the option to manually score oral fluency or use the scores provided by the program. The new oral fluency assessment will become a computer-delivered subtest of the ISIP™ (Istation’s Indicators of Progress) assessment program for students in kindergarten through third grade.