Language Therapy for Children

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About this app

• THE FIRST AND ONLY LANGUAGE THERAPY APPLICATION SUPPORTED BY CLINICAL DATA:
In a 3-year clinical trial of 6,454 children with autism, young children who trained with MITA improved their language score at the end of the trial on average 2.2-times more than similar children who did not use MITA. This difference was statistically significant (p<0.0001). The study has been published by the journal Healthcare: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/4/566

• Includes unlimited language and cognitive exercises designed to last for 10 years

• Used by over 1,000,000 children with language delay

• Best Autism App on the Healthline’s list

• Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Farsi, Korean, and Chinese.

Mental Imagery Therapy for Autism (MITA) is a unique, early-intervention application for children with language delay and autism. MITA trains mental integration and language, starting with simple vocabulary, and progressing towards higher forms of language, such as adjectives, verbs, pronouns, and syntax.


MITA EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Based on ABA techniques of visual-visual and auditory-visual conditional discrimination.
• Based on language therapy technique of following directions with increasing complexity.
• Based on Pivotal Response Treatment that targets development of response to multiple cues.
• Each activity is adaptive and delivers exercises that are at the exact level of difficulty appropriate for your child at any given point in time
• Identify colors, patterns and sizes
• Integrate objects into a unified picture
• Spatial Prepositions: on/under/behind/in front
• Time prepositions: Before/After
• Passive verb tense
• Subject / Object
• Reading and Writing
• Numbers and counting
• Arithmetic
• Logic and reasoning
• Mental perspective taking
• Mental mathematics
• Playtime rewards will keep your child engaged while learning and having fun
• No Wi-Fi necessary
• No ads

MITA develops your child’s imagination and language functions. The visual exercises follow a systematic approach for developing your child's ability to notice multiple features of an object. MITA starts with simple exercises that teach your child to attend to only one feature, such as size (screenshot #1) or color (#2). Over time, the exercises get more difficult and require your child to attend to two features simultaneously, such as both color and size (#3). Once your child has practiced attending to two features, the program moves on to puzzles that require attending to three features, such as color, size and shape (#4), and then eventually to puzzles that involve attending to an ever-increasing number of characteristics.
The verbal exercises offer a more conventional approach to language acquisition, starting with simple vocabulary, and progressing towards higher forms of language, such as adjectives, prepositions, and syntax.
MITA is designed for early childhood and intended for long-term, daily use. It is engaging and educational, as well as adaptive and responsive to the individual abilities of each child. MITA exercises can be used by children with language delay, ASD, PDD, intellectual and developmental disability (IDD), Down syndrome, and other neurodevelopmental disorders as a supplement to conventional speech therapy.

MITA is developed by Dr. A. Vyshedskiy, a neuroscientist from Boston University; R. Dunn, a Harvard-educated early-child-development specialist; MIT-educated, J. Elgart and a group of award-winning artists and developers working alongside experienced therapists.

MITA in the news: https://youtu.be/giZymh3rMHc
MITA research articles: http://imagiration.com/research/
Updated on
Sep 27, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.9
5.68K reviews
Ruth Gardner
August 8, 2024
Goodness, this app is awesome!!! It'll be the best money you ever spent on therapy. My son can barely talk, autistic, 5, just a few words, but he's been doing MITA for 2 months now, and he's started saying words as he selects the correct option on the app. He is actually THINKING... and realising when he gets it right. It's been so good for his self confidence, he's learning colours, counting, vocab, sizes etc!! Edit: He’s now turned 6 after MITA for one year he is speaking in short sentences!!!
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rupie Pitter
March 19, 2024
This app has a bug where, ever so often it reverts to the free version and asks if you want download your settings from the cloud , that doesn't work so you have to reinstall and then download your settings . I changed device and download from amazon and put in my information it said it would charge me but it did so I have two running subscriptions to the same app. I don't know which one to cancel to save my son's progress Update ..the issue was with the play store love this app
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ImagiRation LLC
March 7, 2024
Dear Rupie, Thank you for your feedback! We are puzzled: MITA can not download your settings from the cloud after registration. It has no such function. Maybe you written this review for the wrong app? Please email us and we will investigate: [email protected]
Lindsey S
November 13, 2021
The skill building aspect of this app is fantastic. My son stays engaged for the entire program I have set up (10 stations). The issue I have is with the ending. He is working hard because he loves the coloring reward at the end. However, as a child on the spectrum, he likes things to be just so. The coloring app is more frustration than fun, as there is no eraser, or even an option to paint in white. Please consider working on this so the end can continue to be a reward.
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ImagiRation LLC
November 14, 2021
Dear Lindsey, Thank you for your kind words! Could you please email us with more detail on "there is no eraser" There is button "Start over" that erases all coloring. Is it not what you have in mind?

What's new

• THE FIRST AND ONLY LANGUAGE THERAPY APPLICATION SUPPORTED BY CLINICAL DATA:
In a 3-year clinical trial of 6,454 children with autism, language score in children who engaged with MITA has increased to levels, which were 120% higher than in children with similar initial evaluations. This difference was statistically significant (p=0.0001). See the journal Healthcare: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/4/566

• Adds 15 New Games.

• Activities organized into 70+ games.