{"id":21844,"date":"2016-03-07T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T05:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=21844"},"modified":"2016-03-07T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T05:58:40","slug":"apple-features-new-app-language-disorders-freespeech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/03\/07\/apple-features-new-app-language-disorders-freespeech\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple features new app for language disorders, FreeSpeech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Avaz, Inc., based out of Chennai, India has partnered with LanguageCraft, a Portland, Oregon-based clinic to create a new tool for children with language disorders. Apple featured this app as #1 in &#8220;Best New Apps.&#8221; It is the first special education application to be recognized in that position.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FreeSpeech.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21845\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FreeSpeech.jpg\" alt=\"FreeSpeech\" width=\"642\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FreeSpeech.jpg 642w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/FreeSpeech-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Called FreeSpeech, this technology is an iOS app that takes a new\u00a0approach to language learning by allowing children to see the deep structures of grammar in a fun, interactive way. No matter how they interact with the app, they will always create sentences that are grammatically correct, even if writing from Spanish to English.<\/p>\n<p>Originally intended as an augmentative communication app for children without oral language, it is now being used by educators serving a wide range of students, from those who are deaf or hard or hearing to those who are simply learning English as a second language.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ajit Narayanan and team cracked a problem that linguists and speech pathologists have been working on for ages: How to give access to language \u2013 real, compositional language \u2013 to children who did not develop the ability to speak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freespeechapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FreeSpeech is now available at iOS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avaz, Inc., based out of Chennai, India has partnered with LanguageCraft, a Portland, Oregon-based clinic to create a new tool for children with language disorders. Apple featured this app as #1 in &#8220;Best New Apps.&#8221; It is the first special education application to be recognized in that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,19],"tags":[284,3364,4172,303],"class_list":["post-21844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ios","category-apps","category-headlines","tag-app","tag-apple","tag-freespech","tag-ios-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}