Australian English

For designing visual schedules, story boards, flashcards etc.

Use your own photos and sound recordings or text to speech

AAC app using symbols, photos and keyboard with word prediction

Use ready made vocabularies or create/personalise your own

Uses text to speech voices

Promotes sentence construction

Alternative access modes: touch, switch, keyboard, native eye tracking, scanning

Available in English, French, Spanish and Dutch.

Available from Apple App store. Compatible with iPad, iPhone iOS 16 and apple watchOS 9 or later.

Free trial version of speech sounds on cue for ipad

Look at speech sounds on cue for ipad for full description of full app

N.B: only available through the app store, not through the developer's site

Type of exercises:

• Verbal word finding of sounds and single words.
• Hear the sound, see a video of the mouthshape and then produce it yourself.

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Yes

Record own speaking attempts: Yes

Correction of own speaking attempts: No

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: Yes. Spoken word & mouth shape video cues given.

Prompts/cues given: Yes. Spoken & video (silent or with sound)

Tutorials: Yes

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free phone and online support

Comments:

• Can listen to recordings of attempts in previous sessions to compare
• Can attempt each sound in turn or in random order

N.B:
  Free trial available: speech sounds on cue for ipad lite
  N.B: only available through the app store, not through the developer's site
 

Type of app & brief description       

• Spaced retrieval technique to help memory of facts, procedures and other information. The person has a target question they must answer at regular intervals (e.g. what is your wife’s name).

Comments/N.B

• Not for independent practice, need someone working alongside & to program prompt questions
• With creative use, could be useful for functional word finding
   

Supplier: Tactus

Voice recorder to record your own speech

Record reminders

Record conversations (e.g. at the Dr) to remember what was said and to play back later

Send recordings via email

Type of app & brief description       

• Attach voice recordings to your photos.
• When you press on a photo, the voice recording speaks out so you can explain your photos and use them in conversation if your speech is affected.

Comments/N.B

• Free

Brief description

• Speech recognition program
• As the user speaks into the microphone, the speech is automatically turned into text
• Can read back &/or listen back to what has been typed

Who could benefit

• Someone with good speech & listening skills but compromised spelling &/or reading skills

Comments

• Need to train the program to recognise your speech
• Noise reducing microphones work best
• Requires good cognitive skills to remember commands & adapt speaking rate

Brief description

• Word prediction, speech recognition & screen reader
• The program predicts to aid spelling, gives examples of word useage, reads aloud text on the screen (what you’re typing or what you’re reading).
• Can also use speech recognition to ‘type’ in words.
• Can customise the dictionary to improve prediction
• Screen reader, prediction & speech recognition works within all programs/web pages (e.g. can use within email, social networking sites & web searches)

Who could benefit:

• People who can spell the first 2-3 letters of a word before getting stuck
• People who can spell words but sometimes find it easier to say a word

Comments

• All parts of the program work on PC. Mac users only have access to the word prediction & screen reading parts of the program, not the speech recognition part
• Switch accessible only if using Wivick connection cable
   

Type of exercises & brief description             

• Practise of lip and mouth movements (e.g. lips together, mouth open etc)
• Videos of movements and voice over describing how to execute movements
• Can allocate only certain movements to be practised
• 54 movements to practise

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: None

Comments/N.B

• Limited program, only illustrating lip and mouth movements  but it is free and could be useful as a preliminary to dyspraxia or dysphagia therapy