Mouse

Type of exercises:

• Letter and word recognition.
• Written naming.
• Multiple choice matching tasks and gap filling naming tasks.

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a particular theory base, SLT experience



Record own speaking attempts: N/A



Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No



Error handling: Only for picture naming exercises.



Prompts/cues given:

• Spoken semantic cues
• Spoken model cues
• Spoken answers

Tutorials: No



Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat



Comments: In deluxe version, automatically moves user on if they are getting responses correct but not in this version



N.B: Have to backspace previous answer before entering new, correct response

Type of exercises:

• Multiple choice and gapfiller exercises for generating words that ‘sound like’ or are ‘the opposite to’ or are ‘the same as’

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: Gives cues after each wrong answer.

Prompts/cues given: Yes. Says word aloud, gives number of letters in word, gives multiple choices

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Some Americanisms
• Some items are very high level
• Model voice is American

N.B:
   Need spelling skills
   Need whole word reading
 

Type of exercises:

• Multiple choice and gapfiller sentence, phrase and definition completion

Developed with SLT: Yes



Theory based: No specific theory base, SLT experience



Record own speaking attempts: N/A



Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A



Customisation/personalisation: No



Error handling: None



Prompts/cues given: Can listen to question and hear answer spoken but no actual auditory cues



Tutorials: No



Free trial: Yes



Support: Free, life time technical support via phone, email or online livechat



Comments:

• Need mouse to exit before the end of the exercise session
• Extensive number of items to complete
• Some flexibility with answers (multiple correct answers)

N.B:

Have to delete previous answer before correcting a response

Writing tasks but also working on semantics

Need sentence level reading

Spoken answers are with an American accent

Type of exercises:

• Reading comprehension with multiple choice answers.
• Reading of bills, adverts, product labels, timetables. Locating services and recipes.

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: Yes. If a wrong answer is given, it will highlight the area of the text to look at to obtain the correct answer.

Prompts/cues given: Chunks of text to read are highlighted to aid finding correct answer. Can alter number of multiple choice options.

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Very American (e.g. American product labels, prices in $, American vocabulary)
• Not real life clippings
• Some exercises only have 2 items to read
• Progress tracking to automatically move user on as they improve

N.B:

    Very American.
    Not many exercises so would quickly complete the whole program.

Type of exercises:

• Following written instructions to place shapes. 1-3 step instructions.
• Also sequencing exercises with shapes and written memory to a degree

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: No

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• More for work on prepositions and sequencing than direction following
• Can change colours to aid visual difficulties
• Can remove written direction to work on written memory skills too

N.B:
   Need very good sentence level reading
 

Type of exercises:

• Verbal single word naming of numbers, amounts and time
• Verbal single word repetition of numbers, amounts and time

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: Yes

Correction of own speaking attempts: No

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: No

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Up to 150 exercises for each ‘lesson’.
• No visual cues (e.g. pictorial representation of a number or a clock face)
• Aimed at reading aloud numbers, time or money amounts

N.B:
  Model voice is American

Type of exercises:

• Multiple choice and gapfiller exercises for generating words that ‘sound like’ or are ‘the opposite to’ or are ‘the same as’

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: Yes. Gives cues after each wrong answer.

Prompts/cues given: No

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Some Americanisms
• Some items are very high level
• Model voice is American
• Need deluxe version for recording results
• Need deluxe version for user selectable cues

N.B:
    Need spelling skills
    Need whole word reading
 

Type of exercises:

• Letter and word recognition
• Written naming
• Multiple choice matching tasks
• Gap filling naming tasks

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a particular theory base, SLT experience

Personalisation of content: No

Error handling: Only for picture naming exercises.

Prompts/cues given: Only in the deluxe version. Cues given for picture naming exercises but not other 6 exercise sets

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments: Need to backspace previous answer before entering new, correct response

Type of exercises:

• Multiple choice and gapfiller sentence, phrase and definition completion

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: None

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free, life time technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Need mouse to exit before the end of the exercise session
• Extensive number of items to complete
• Some flexibility with answers (multiple correct answers)

N.B:

• Have to delete previous answer before correcting a response
• Writing tasks but also working on semantics
• Need sentence level reading

Type of exercises:

• Reading comprehension with multiple choice answers.
• Reading of bills, adverts, product labels, timetables.
• Locating services and recipes.

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: Yes. If a wrong answer is given, it will highlight the area of the text to look at to obtain the correct answer.

Prompts/cues given: Chunks of text to read are highlighted to aid finding correct answer.

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Very American (e.g. American product labels, prices in $, American vocabulary)
• Not real life clippings
• Some exercises only have 2 items to read

N.B:   

• Very American.
• Not many exercises so would quickly complete the whole programme.