Developing special education applications for children and developing innovative technologies for the education of more than half a million special children since its establishment, Otsimo is affiliated with Spin Master, one of Canada’s largest toy company. formed a partnership with Sago Mini, the world’s largest children’s game company.
As part of the collaboration, Sago Mini First Words, the first app designed to teach speaking and pronunciation to children of all developmental levels, will reach more than 40 million children.
Special solutions for children
The mobile platform that produces special solutions for children, Otsimo, and Sago Mini, which is known for winning dozens of awards in the field of play, is specially designed for children in need of speech therapy or seeking support for speech. presented the Sago Mini First Words application, which was designed with psychologists and speech experts, to users.
Sago Mini First Words, the first application implemented by Otsimo and Sago Mini, was developed using video and peer modeling methods that can be easily used by all children with neurotypical and neurodiversity.
The App, which is full of opportunities and surprises that will attract children’s attention and improve their communication skills at the same time, ensures that the words and sounds learned are permanent with positive reinforcements while teaching speaking. The English version of the app, which can be downloaded from the App Store, will be released in 2023.
“We will do better things”
Otsimo’s CEO, Zafer Elcik, said, “Both Otsimo and Sago Mini team are very happy with this partnership. I am sure that we will do much better work with a company that is known for its games in the private education sector that I have been in for years. Our application is an application that improves speech and learning new words at an early stage for every child, whether they have speech difficulties or not. Our application, which we developed using the video modeling feature, was prepared using completely scientific methods.
Video modeling management is one of the most effective methods used by speech therapists in traditional speech therapy, the effect of which has been proven by many studies. One of the biggest reasons it works is that this method actually mimics the natural way we learn language. Thanks to the application, children can see their peers on the screen and imitate them and reinforce their language learning.
Since the way we use this method in our application is highly interactive, children get the chance to do an extra reinforcement. He learns to speak with the see, do, reinforce flow, while also improving his vocabulary and grasping the context with real-life examples. While doing all these, they have a chance to see themselves.”
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