This app is 100% satisfaction guaranteed. This version includes an additional keyboard for younger users with color-coded, lowercase letters in alphabetical order. Older users can still use the traditional QWERTY keyboard. Also included are various user-experience improvements and an updated text-to-speech engine. If you have any technical problems or if the app does not meet your expectations for any reason, please contact the developer at
[email protected] for information on solving the problem or getting a refund. Please feel free also to contact the developer before making a purchase if you have any questions about the app.
Videos of how the app works are available at www.sharpcuriosity.com.
NOTE: A SMALL NUMBER OF USERS HAVE REPORTED INITIAL PROBLEMS WITH HEARING ANY SOUND. This is caused by a known issue in Apple’s design on some machines that causes kids apps (but not YouTube or some other apps) to be muted. For more information, see http://momswithapps.com/2012/06/10/using-the-ipads-side-switch-settings-to-bring-back-the-sound-in-your-app/
Apple is looking into the issue and a fix for it will likely be part of an upcoming iPad update.
SO FAR ALL USERS WITH AUDIO PROBLEMS HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM WITH THE FOLLOWING STEPS. FOR NOW, THIS IS HOW YOU FIX THE PROBLEM UNTIL APPLE ISSUES AN IOS UPDATE TO FIX THE BUG:
• Press the home button twice to bring up your application tray.
• Slide it to the right to show your iPad controls.
• Since the physical slide switch is bound to rotation, you should have a mute button on the far left of the iPad controls.
• Tap it to deactivate muting.
In step 3, if you see a device rotation lock control instead of the mute control, check the small (physical) switch near the volume control on the side of the iPad. Make sure it's not enabled. If the rotation lock is showing in the application tray, the physical switch by the volume control is configured to handle muting.
IF THESE STEPS DO NOT WORK FOR YOU, PLEASE CONTACT THE DEVELOPER AT
[email protected]
NOTE THAT THE APP ONLY INITIALLY DOWNLOADS THE SET OF WORDS FROM THESE 10 BOOKS:
GREEN EGGS AND HAM, HOP ON POP, GO DOG GO, ARE YOU MY MOTHER, THE FOOT BOOK, TEN APPLES UP ON TOP, PUT ME IN THE ZOO, THE BEST NEST, I WISH THAT I HAD DUCK FEET, AND SNOW.
Getting the rest of the 4,000 words is free, but due to current download-size constraints, we had to design the app so that you download those words separately. If you want to download the rest of the words, here's the easiest way to do that:
Touch the "book" icon in the upper right hand corner of the app.
Touch the "Additional Book Sets" in the upper right hand corner of the next screen.
Scroll through the list of book sets to "Combo Support Set 1" and "Combo Support Set 2". By downloading these two sets, you get all the words from all the booksets for a total of over 4,000. Once you download them, you need to go back to the main keyboard screen of the app again, and then depending on your connection it may take 15 minutes or more to download all the words.
THIS APP WAS DEVELOPED BY RESEARCHERS WHO CONTINUE TO EXPLORE NEW WAYS TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT STRUGGLING READERS. ANY FEEDBACK WILL BE GREAT AND VERY MUCH APPRECIATED! Contact the developers at
[email protected].