Intermediate

Auditory comprehension exercises including auditory word-picture matching, listening to & following basic directions, temporal directions and conditional directions.

There are up to 9 levels of difficulty & 1700 items

Results can be recorded and emailed. A score is given at the end of each exercise & a record of exercises attempted is also recorded within the app but scores are not saved in these reports.

User can record their speech although this is an app to work on auditory comprehension rather than speech.

Ability to turn on background noise & set for multiple users.

Designed to elicit basic to high level conversation.

Can be used for eliciting verbal or written language.

Can be used to work on any area of conversation: eliciting opinions, making descriptions, making inferences, giving definitions, reminiscing, talking about emotions, making predictions, telling stories or even working on fluency and speech clarity.

Could be used for self practise if the person has a means of recording their speech/writing or could be used during therapy sessions with the therapist.

Results (as rated by the therapist or conversation partner) are recorded and can be emailed.

Can customise the written content to elicit specific types of language or work on particular language areas.

The user can choose to have the questions read aloud.

Free trial available through Conversation Therapy Lite app

Supplier: Tactus

Picture dictionary with opportunities to practise simple conversations

Designed for foreign language learners but useful resource for people with communication difficulties

Unit 1 is free

Type of exercises & brief description

• Semantic categorisation of 269 nouns (animals, body parts, clothing etc) and adjectives/descriptors (e.g. things that fly)
• 3 levels (easy, medium & hard). The easy level contains concrete categories, the medium level contains sub-categories, the hard level contains abstract categories
• 4 sets of exercise: Find, Classify, Exclude & Add one (i.e. find another item to fit the category)
• 10-50+ items can be selected per exercise
• The targets can be presented as pictures only, words only or words & pictures. Audio cues are provided
• A tutorial is provided to demonstrate how the app can be used

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: None

Record results: Results are shown after the session with % of items named correctly. Results can be emailed to a designated address.

Comments/N.B

• There is only one version for UK, US, Aus and there are a few American words (e.g. cart, trunk)
• FREE TRIAL available through the Category Therapy Lite app

Supplier: Tactus

Keyboard, word banks, phrase banks and word prediction

Type your message and speak it out

Voice is robotic

Design your own visual daily planners

Use photos, text and voice recordings

• break down an activity into steps (e.g. making tea)

• design an activity planner for each day

Useful if you forget how to do things or find it difficult to follow written instructions

Makes your text messages bigger & easier to read

Useful for people with aphasia who have some reading but struggle with the small font size of text messages on their phone

An AAC app. Click on a photo to speak out your message

Use your own photos and words, easy to customise

Create sentences in the message window. There are some customiseable settings

Slight delay between screens but this free app could be used for basic AAC needs or for testing potential for a more comprehensive AAC system

Symbols showing different levels of pain, different types of pain and parts of the body

Press on a symbol and it will speak

Memory & sequencing game

Watch the coloured squares and sounds and then repeat the pattern