StudyBlue

Some of you reading this may be excellent at taking data. I, however, am not one of these people. I struggle with trying to keep data and not letting my clients know that I am taking data. I have learned it can be a bit distracting, and I have seen clients constantly trying to peer over the table to see what their clinician is writing. So, data taking has not proved to be my strong suit.

Something that a friend recently showed me was a wonderful website called StudyBlue. He was showing it to me so that I could make notecards for one of my classes, but I saw the potential for use in speech therapy. StudyBlue allows you to make notecards with two sides. It will show you the first side, then you tap it and it will "flip" the card. It gives you the option of a "thumbs up" if you got the question right and a "thumbs down" if you got the question wrong. It then moves on to the next card. I haven't quite figured out how to apply this to articulation, but it is very easily applicable to language. One way you could use it is if you are working on social behavior. The first card could say "A boy in my class hits me. Should I... A) hit him back, B) tell my teacher, or C) lay down on the floor, screaming and crying until someone comes up to me." The other side of the card would simply have to say "B".

I haven't gotten to the best part though. At the end of the notecards, it gives you this information:
1. Percentage correct
2. Amount studied vs. Amount right and wrong
3. Progress on mastery of information
4. History of the questions (it has little cubes next to each notecard that are either green or red, so if you use the same set more than one it will have the progression, i.e 2 red cubes and 1 green cube if the first two times he/she did that notecard he got it wrong but the third time he/she got it right. 

I will include the StudyBlue link for you below. It is also an app that can be downloaded on the android market or the apple store, so you can use it on your phone, Ipad, tablet, or laptop.

Let me know if you use StudyBlue and how it works for you in the comment section below. Thanks for reading!

StudyBlue