Peter and the Cat2.0

Peter and the Cat Narrative Assessment, for children aged 5-9 years. 'Peter and the Cat' is a narrative re-telling task that yields a descriptive profile of a child's development of key narrative competencies. It was designed by speech and language pathologists, Leanne Allan and Suze Leitão in collaboration with the teachers and principal of a Language Development Centre in Western Australia following more than seven years of development and testing. Narrative sampling allows the capture of key skills required in the transition to a literate style of language so critical for school success. In addition, sampling oral language beyond the sentence level provides information on broader communicative competence. This established assessment is used by therapists, teachers and researchers across the world and is recommended in the recent influential publication, 'Developing language and literacy: effective intervention in the early years', Julia M. Carroll et al, 2011. 'Peter and the Cat' is a useful tool for determining therapy goals, curriculum planning and establishing pre- and post-intervention data. The iPad version of the assessment uses the same profiling of language skills but brings together an illustrated ebook with voice overs, audio recording, on screen profiling, dictation facility (new iPad only), automatic report generation, Dropbox and email connections, enabling an assessment to be made quickly and efficiently with less preparation time. The final report, together with the audio recording of the child's re-tell, can be transferred to a desktop computer via email or Dropbox. The report is in plain text so it can easily be incorporated into other reports or case files. The voice-overs for the story can be selected from UK, US, Australian and South African speakers. Issues of confidentiality have been taken into account by password protecting data.

Version History New Interface

Bug Fixes for iOS 13 2.0 11/22/2019 Fixed email and dropbox functionality in iOS 9 and 10 1.8 12/08/2016 Fixes crash in iOS10 when trying to access microphone 1.7 11/16/2016 - Fixed text size to fit with iOS10 font
- Fixed layout problem on iPadPro 1.6 10/23/2016 * Change to entering child's name on main menu for iOS 5 and iOS 6.
* Bug fix iOS 7. App crashing when finalising a report. 1.5 04/04/2014 Bug fix:
* Audio scrubbing now works correctly. 1.4 11/23/2013 Updated for iOS 7 1.3 09/24/2013 * Ability to share audio after completing a recording. * Updated user manual. * Slight modifications to user interface. Bug fix's: * Sorted occasional sign in problems after killing application. * Other minor bug fixes. 1.2 01/31/2013 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to the nature of this update we recommend finishing any assessments and exporting them via email or Dropbox before installing new version.

What’s new:
* Removal of iCloud from application, to improve security and prevent data loss.
* Updates to UI to further improve usability

Bug fixes:
* When deleting a child from any of the sections it now deletes all associated data. 1.1 01/10/2013 * iOS 6 compatibility fixes:
- Fixed force close when using arrows to navigate story.
- Fixed force close when entering record story section.
- Fixed launch issues on older generation iPads. 1.0.1 09/26/2012 1.0 08/20/2012