Basic

Brief description

• Reading & writing tool designed for children but can be very helpful for people with aphasia who need help with writing & spelling
• Word prediction (can be personalised)
• Word & phrase banks by topic or A-Z (can be personalised)
• Written or picture supported word banks
• Hear words before selecting
• Listen back to what you have written
• Make voice notes to rehearse a sentence before writing it

Who could benefit

• People who have some spelling but who need writing & spelling prompts
• People who have no spelling but who would like to write letters/cards
  
   

Type of exercises & brief description             

• Practise of 10 songs to encourage spontaneous and automatic speech
• Songs chosen to practise variety of initial & contrastive sounds
• Songs chosen to practise different rhythms, pace & rates

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: Video and audio clips of oral movements

Comments:

• It is recommended that headphones be worn to do the exercises
• Male & female model examples

Type of exercises & brief description             

• Practise of speech sounds for apraxia of speech & other motor speech disorders
• Building speech –  to practise basic speech patterns & build up to sentence length utterances, (includes basic  functional phrases)
• Using speech – to practise continuous speech (includes phrases for the phone, & at a restaurant)
• Creating own speech samples
• The user is expected to produce the sounds in unison with the model provided
• They can watch their own production of sounds simultaneously if their device has a camera

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: Video and audio clips of oral movements

Comments:

• It is recommended that headphones be worn to do the exercises
• Success relies on many, many repetitions so user needs to be motivated to do this kind of therapy
• For a fee, user can send own phrases to the company for them to create conversation scripts
   

Type of exercises & brief description             

• Practise of 21 consonant phonemes progressing to phoneme production in initial position of word/phrase
• The user is expected to produce the sounds in unison with the model provided
• They can watch their own production of sounds simultaneously if their device has a camera
• Sounds are organised into sound families and contrastive sounds

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: Video and audio clips of oral movements

Comments:

• It is recommended that headphones be worn to do the exercises
• For a fee, user can send own phrases to the company for them to create conversation scripts
• Can designate specific exercises to be completed
• Only consonant phonemes provided

Brief description

• Free software which adds text to speech (in Microsoft Word only)
• It speaks aloud what you are typing

Who could benefit

• People starting to write in sentences but with some spelling and reading difficulties

Brief description

• Keyboard familiarisation tasks
• Spelling exercises
• 80 activities included or create your own
• Results are recorded
• Use standard keyboard or onscreen keyboard
• Prompts provided
• Can be used by lots of different users, each with their own exercise set

Who could benefit

• People needing to practise:
• Keyboard skills
• Spelling skills

Brief description

• Available as an app and/or software
• Word prediction (uses grammar smart word prediction & handles phonetic spelling, letter omissions & reversals)
• List of up to 9 word predictions
• Can customise the dictionary to improve prediction
• Text to speech facility to hear the words predicted before selection
• Can listen back repeatedly to the sentence being composed
• Customiseable, topic based on-screen word lists  to aid writing
• Use in social media, email, word processing documents

Who could benefit

• People who can spell the first 2-3 letters of a word

Brief description

• 85 symbol supported spoken phrases relating to daily, adult activities

Comments/N.B

• Designed for general use in conversations
• No personal or specific vocabulary
• Could replace a generic, basic communication book/chart
   

Brief description

• 66 generic, symbol supported  spoken phrases appropriate for someone with aphasia

Comments/N.B

• Designed for general use when out & about
• No personal or specific vocabulary
• Could replace a generic, basic communication book/chart
   

Type of exercises & brief description             

• AAC app
• 50 symbol supported spoken phrases in the categories:
•     Stroke
•     Conversation
•     Phone
•     Emergency
•     Meals
•     Restaurants
•     Health
•     Pain scale

Comments/N.B

• Designed to be a quick & easy to use conversation aid
• Some Americanisms in the restaurant and food choices