General Apps

A+ spelling test

Practise spelling your own, personalised word lists

AlphaTopics - AAC

Cueing app

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

AudioMemos

Voice recorder

Use to record your own speech, record reminders, record conversations

Can send recordings via email

Bitsboard

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

CanPlan

Visual calendar & personalised step by step instructions for daily tasks

Choiceworks calendar

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

Claro ScanPen

Screen reader software

Speaks written text aloud for those who find reading difficult

ClaroMagX

Use a smartphone or tablet as a magnifier 

ClaroSpeak

Text to speech. Reads text aloud as you type

Co:Writer

App and software to help with spelling

Predicts words, hear the words and your sentence before you select

CommunicAide

AAC app for speaking out words and phrases. Photo based.

Conversation builder Teen

Practise spoken conversations & record them

Conversation coach

Practising conversations

Use your own words and topics

Need someone to program in your words and topics

 

Dial Safe Pro

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

Dragon Anywhere

Speech recognition app

Speak your text or email messages instead of typing them

 

Envision AI

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

Fotobabble

Attach voice recordings to your photos

When you touch a photo, it speaks out so you can explain your photos and use them in conversation if your speech is affected

i get it my daily schedules

Photo planner

i see-quence

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

 

icommunicate

For designing visual schedules, story boards, flashcards etc.

Use your own photos and sound recordings

 

Inference Pics

Explain what is happening in a photo and why (inferences)

Interactive telling time lite

Games for working on telling the time on an analogue clock

iprompts

For creating visual schedules, visual timers and symbol choices

No audio prompts or voice output

iprompts XL

For creating visual schedules, visual timers and symbol choices

No audio prompts or voice output

iSpeech

Text to speech 

You can save your messages to use again

Useful if you struggle to speak but can type what you want to say

JABtalk

An AAC app

Click on a photo to speak out your message

Use your own photos and words

Create sentences

Just Say It!

Explain a word without using the 6 associated words on the card

Lexico cognition

Exercises for listen & remember or read and remember

Listen to or read describing words

Main Street Memory

Exercises for following auditory instructions within real-life scenarios

Memorado


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

Memory Exercises

Exercises for working on short-term memory, attention, processing and working memory using spoken responses

Memory Lane Games

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

MemoryBlock

Memory & sequencing game

Watch the coloured squares and sounds and then repeat the pattern

Minimal Pair Pack

Practise listening to the difference between similar speech sounds

20 different speech sounds to practise

Pictures, words or pictures & words together

Our Story2

App for creating personalised photo stories

Oxford Picture Dictionary

Picture dictionary with opportunities to practise simple conversations

Unit 1 is free

PhotoMind

Calendar/reminders with photo and written text

Pictello

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)

Popplet


Communication organisation

Proloquo2go

AAC app using symbols, photos and keyboard with word prediction

Ready made vocabularies

Create or personalise your own vocabularies

 

RubyRepeat

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

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

Say it: English Pronunciation

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

Seeing AI

This free 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

Sentence builder teen

Exercises for building sentences

Sentence Maker

Anagram sentences to put in the correct order

SmallTalk Common Phrases

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

SmallTalk conversational phrases

66 basic spoken phrases with symbols

For use when out & about

SmallTalk daily activities

85 spoken phrases with symbols for talking about daily tasks

For use in conversations

SmallTalk Letters, Numbers, Colors

Speech exercises for letters of the alphabet, numbers 1-20 and 12 colours

Videos and voice recordings to copy

SmallTalk Pain Scale

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

Press on a symbol and it will speak

 

SMS/Talk Text Enlarger

Makes your text messages bigger & easier to read

spacedretrievaltherapy

To work on memory

Not for independent use

Speech Assistant AAC

A basic AAC app

Click on a word to speak it out

Lists of words to choose from and add your own

You need to be able to read single words to use this app

Speech Tutor

Exercises for practising 20 speech sounds

Videos of mouth movements

Can record own attempts

Speechify

Speechify is a text to speech tool.

 

 

SpeechJournal

Attach voice recordings to your photos to tell people about yourself and what you've been doing

 

Spell Better

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

Talk with Me

Basic AAC app designed for people with aphasia

Talking Mats

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

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

TippyTalk EDU

App to enable non-verbal and non-literate users to communicate via texting technology

TouchChat HD

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

Unus Tactus

Photo based phone app

Attach photos to your contacts. To call them, just click on their photo

Useful for people who struggle to read names

Verbal Reasoning

Exercises for practise speaking at a sentence or conversation level

Exercises to work on problem solving

Verbally

Keyboard, word banks, phrase banks and word prediction

Type your message and speak it out

Voice is robotic

Visual Attention Therapy

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

Voice dream reader

Reads text aloud, word & line highlighting. Option to reduce text area to improve focus. Option to use large font size.  Supports PDF documents, ebooks, web pages. Free trial available.

Word Domino

Put 2 dominoes together to make a word

5 categories of words to choose from