Colourful Semantics is an exciting app from London Speech Therapy that is based on independent research carried out in the UK (in 1997* & 2011**) to work on developing a child s: - spoken sentences - answering...
Colourful Semantics is an exciting app from London Speech Therapy that is based on independent research carried out in the UK (in 1997* & 2011**) to work on developing a child s: - spoken sentences - answering WH-Questions - use of nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives - story telling skills - written sentences - written language comprehension Children work through the 5 levels of the Colourful Semantics programme to eventually produce grammatical and informational sentences: Level 1 Who? the man Level 2 What doing? is eating Level 3 What? the sandwich Level 4 Where? in the kitchen With the end result being: The man is eating the big sandwich in the kitchen Level 5 Conjunction (Scene 1 + Scene 2) With the end result being: The man is eating the big sandwich in the kitchen + Scene 2 What is unique about this approach is that children learn to associate different types of words with particular colours whereby: Level 1 Who? the man (Subject Orange) Level 2 What doing? is eating (Verb Yellow) Level 3 What? the sandwich (Object Green) Level 4 Where? in the kitchen (Location Blue) Features: - Multiple students can use the app, with the app personalised for each student - Choose the level each student is working on, with questions focusing on Who, What doing, What, Where and Describe. Each level has the Colourful Semantics colour coding in place. - Select from a small library of scenes within the app, or make your own using the iPad's Camera Roll or even take a new photo with your student(s)! - Choose the number of scenes you want to use in each session - Fun animation and music to engage and entertain - Uses vibrant Widgit symbols, used in classrooms across the world - Review each student s progress, then print or share the report. - Use your own images and record your own voice for the questions, to enable use in a range of countries and settings Colourful Semantics is used with a wide variety of clinical presentations including: - Language delay or disorder - Specific Language Impairment (SLI) - Autistic Spectrum Disorders - Hearing impairment - Mild and Moderate Learning Disabilities - Cerebral Palsy Links to independent reviews: - http://speechiespeaks.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/app-review-colourful-semantics/ - http://speechtimefun.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/colourful-semantics-app-app-review.html - http://speechuniverse.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/colourful-semantics-app-review-and.html References: *Bryan, A. (1997) Colourful Semantics: thematic role therapy. In Chiat, S., Law, J. and Marshall, J. (Eds) Language Disorders in Children and Adults: Psycholinguistic approaches to therapy. London: Whurr. - This study found that the key with Colourful Semantics is not to highlight the grammatical structure of a sentence [e.g. subject, verb, object] but to illuminate the meaning relationships of the sentence through coding the thematic roles that the words represent. This sounds very technical, but in practise the basic coding is very simple. Whatever question you ask to get the information that is the colour you use for the words! ** Bolderson et al in (2011) Colourful Semantics: A Clinical Investigation. Child Language Teaching and Therapy October 2011 vol. 27 no. 3 344-353. - This study revealed "RAPT information and grammar scores and the Bus Story information and mean sentence length scores all improved during therapy but not in the baseline. These results obtained under clinical conditions are encouraging and warrant a larger study of this approach". Please note: - To download our instructions please visit the 'Support URL'. - To ensure you get the complete pre-installed library please update your iPad to the latest iOS software.
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPad.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Colourful Semantics since it was posted on our website on 2016-10-31 18:22:31.
The latest version is 2.2 and it was updated on 2026-06-17 06:29:44. See below the changes in each version.
Colourful Semantics version 2.2
Updated At: 2013-03-23
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