General Apps

Cueing app

Keyboard and topics list to help cue a conversation partner into context of spoken conversation

App for creating customised therapy exercises (spelling, semantics, sequencing)

Visual calendar which speaks the events. Alarms can also be set

Use a smartphone or tablet as a magnifier 

App and software to help with spelling
Predicts words, hear the words and your sentence before you select

Practise spoken conversations & record them

For practising the dialling of phone numbers and also phone conversations/leaving a message

This app describes the world around you . Point the camera at objects, people, text (typed or hand written) & it will speak aloud the writing or the scene it can see

Photo planner

For designing visual schedules, story boards, flashcards etc.

Use your own photos and sound recordings

Games for working on telling the time on an analogue clock

For creating visual schedules, visual timers and symbol choices

No audio prompts or voice output

An AAC app

Click on a photo to speak out your message

Use your own photos and words

Create sentences

Exercises for listen & remember or read and remember

Listen to or read describing words

Games for working on memory, concentration, attention and reaction times

Create quiz style games/ word finding activities, based around personal memories.

Practise listening to the difference between similar speech sounds

20 different speech sounds to practise

Pictures, words or pictures & words together

Picture dictionary with opportunities to practise simple conversations

Unit 1 is free

Attach speech to your photos

When you press on a photo, it speaks out. You can explain your photos and use them in conversation

You can  use it to tell stories

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

AAC app using symbols, photos and keyboard with word prediction

Ready made vocabularies

Create or personalise your own vocabularies

Practise speaking words and comparing to a model. Rate your own attempts

Exercises for building sentences

34 speech exercise videos for phrases (e.g. call back later, can you write that for me?, speak slowly etc)

Videos and voice recordings to copy

85 spoken phrases with symbols for talking about daily tasks

For use in conversations

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

Press on a symbol and it will speak

To work on memory

Not for independent use

Helps to pace your rate of speech and reading aloud

Speechify is a text to speech tool.

Gives spelling suggestions as you type

Could be useful if you can spell the first few letters of a word before getting stuck

Also speaks the words

App for SLTs to discuss issues pictorally with people who have communication difficulties

It is the digital version of the low-tech Talking Mats

An AAC app with vocabulary specifically for people with aphasia & keyboard with word prediction

Click on a symbol/photo to  speak out your message

Use your own photos, phrases & voice recordings

Exercises for practise speaking at a sentence or conversation level

Exercises to work on problem solving

Therapy exercises for visual neglect (i.e. when you can only see one side of the screen)

Encourages you to look at the whole screen and develop a normal 'looking' pattern