Intermediate

Speech recognition app

Speak your text or email messages instead of typing them

Could be used to replace typing/writing or used in conjunction. The person could type parts of a message and dictate other parts

A memory game like the 80's game of 'Simon'

Repeat the sequence of colours by touching the rubies on the screen

Good sequencing and recall exercise

Attach voice recordings to photos (recorded speech or text to speech) so the photo speaks out a message

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. You can also make stories to tell people/children.

You can also make visual schedulers to remind you how to carry out tasks (e.g. baking a cake)

You can make as many albums/stories as you like

For creating visual schedules, visual timers and symbol choices

Visual prompting tool only, no audio prompts or voice output

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.

Brief description

• Free, text to speech app. You type in text and it reads it aloud.
• You can save your messages to use again,  instantly, without having to re-type your message
   

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

Type of exercises & brief description             

• Practice of written and spoken present tense, present progressive and past tense verbs at word and sentence level
• Flashcard exercises
• Multiple choice (4 choices) semantic exercises

Error handling: Removes incorrect responses



Prompts/cues: None



Comments/N.B

• Developed for children but most of the items and photos are adult appropriate

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