Between the Lines Level 1 and Level 2 contain 3 activities:
- Listening: The user hears a voice speak a sentence, e.g., “Ewww!” A question is then asked, “Who said it?” The user is shown a series of photographs and touches the correct one.
- Body Language: A very short video-clip is shown that depicts an interaction or situation. For example, a family is shown at a restaurant. A friend walks up and says, “Hey, did you hear the news about Mr. Becker?” (smiling) The camera closes in on this woman and the narrator says, “What is she thinking?” The user’s task is to look at the choices of responses and select the one that matches the facial expression/body language.
- Expressions: A very short video-clip is shown that depicts an actor speaking a sentence that contains an idiomatic or slang expression, e.g., “She’s kind of nosy.’” The user is then asked, “What does that mean?”
App Details
Devices supported iPad and iPhone
Age Recommendations 8 and up
Price $15.99
Useful for the community of people with disabilities The Between the Lines series provides videos that target show social situations. It helps the child to use perspective-taking to figure out what someone is thinking. It can show just 2 choices to make it easier or upto 4 choices, to make it more challenging. There is no other app like it.
Inspiration behind app Our apps are developed by a speech-language pathologist, Patti Hamaguchi. She developed these apps to be used with the children in her practice because they struggled with these skills.
Best Feature We hear all the time that the children LOVE the videos and that they are far superior to having the child look at simple photographs for perspective-taking.
How app differentiates from other similar apps The amount of content—204 videos, and the way the activities are set up.
future enhancements We do not currently have plans for future enhancements.
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