{"id":1376,"date":"2016-03-07T06:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2016-03-07T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:02:36","slug":"apple-features-freespeech-app-language-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/apple-features-freespeech-app-language-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple features FreeSpeech app for language disorders"},"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\" \/><\/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>Called FreeSpeech, this technology is an iOS app that takes a new approach 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","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[491,817,815,816,19,542,252,20],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-app","tag-apple","tag-avaz-inc","tag-freespeech","tag-health","tag-ios","tag-technology","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}