interacted with her, and watched her company and apps with interest. She approached those of us who had first started the SLP Goal Bank to write an app with our own goals. It all happened extremely fast but suddenly I was a co-author for an app! I just sort of fell into it by accident and found the process very interesting. However, for that app, all I had to do was contribute a bunch of my own goals to various areas of speech pathology -- I didn't have to do any lay-out or trouble shooting. I couldn't even test the app because I didn't yet have an iPad at that time. Writing the App This process got me thinking, though -- what if I could write an app that was missing in my life? I now knew a little bit about how to write it while working with a designer/publisher and realized it's as 'easy' as writing a book (and I actually did have to write a book for my app, but most people wouldn't need to do that). As it happens, what was missing in my app life was a phonological awareness profile. I had grown weary of the CELF-4's screener 1 and was screening kids with it more or less daily. So, in the summer of 2010, I started thinking about what I would want a phonological awareness assessment app to look like and do. I contacted Barbara at Smarty Ears, who loved the idea, and then I