The Language Therapy
4 bundle app containing Comprehension Therapy, Naming Therapy, Writing Therapy & Reading Therapy for people who want to work on all 4 areas of language
Look at each app's details individually for more information on what each one contains
4 bundle app containing Comprehension Therapy, Naming Therapy, Writing Therapy & Reading Therapy
Exercises for understanding, naming, spelling and reading
Comprehension Aphasia
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.
Exercises for working on understanding spoken words and instructions
Parrot word finding yes no
Spoken word to picture matching. Written word is also presented.
Click Yes or No to say if the word matches the picture.
Developed with SLT: Yes
Theory based: No, based on clinician experience
Record own speaking attempts: N/A
Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A
Easy to use?: Yes but can be confusing because sometimes when you click on 'No', the computer says 'Yes' as the reward for a correct response.
Customisation/personalisation: No
Error handling: None
Prompts/cues given: None
Record results: Yes
Tutorials: Yes, online
Free trial: Yes but not the complete program
Support: Via Livechat or the suppliers can take over the user’s PC. All support takes place 9am-5pm New York time.
Comments:
- The online subscription allows access to all the modules available so as the user progresses they don’t need to purchase new modules. It feels like an app when downloaded on an ipad
- The CD version has more functions than the internet version
- Remote access to results is possible as long as the SLT has the user’s login & password.
N.B:
Voice is American and computer generated
No visual rewards for correct answers
Supplier: http://www.parrotsoftware.com
Spoken word to picture matching. Written word is also presented.
Click Yes or No to say if the word matches the picture.
Conversation Therapy
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
For practising spoken or written conversations.
Can be used to work on any area of conversation: opinions, descriptions, inferences, definitions, reminiscing, emotions, predictions, story telling 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 conversation partner) are recorded and can be emailed.
You must have good reading skills to be able to use this app. There are no spoken instructions or prompts.
Oxford Picture Dictionary
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
Picture dictionary with opportunities to practise simple conversations
Unit 1 is free
Speech cards Professional
Customiseable photo flashcards text and audio cue.
Name the object and record your speech attempt.
Results are recorded.
You can share decks of cards with other app users for free
Lite version is free
Photos flashcards of objects to name. You can record your attempts
Parrot figurative language
Type of exercises:
- Figurative language/expressions
Developed with SLT: Yes
Theory based: No, based on clinician experience
Record own speaking attempts: N/A
Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A
Easy to use?: Yes
Customisation/personalisation: No
Error handling: None
Prompts/cues given: None
Record results: Yes
Tutorials: Yes, online
Free trial: Yes but not the complete program
Support: Via Livechat or the suppliers can take over the user’s PC. All support takes place 9am-5pm New York time.
Comments:
- The online subscription allows access to all the modules available so as the user progresses they don’t need to purchase new modules. It feels like an app when downloaded on an ipad
- The CD version has more functions than the internet version
- A download version exists for $19.95 per program but works only on Windows, not mac
- Some of the expressions are very American
N.B:
Voice is American and computer generated
No visual rewards for correct answers
Exercises for understanding expressions.
Some of the expressions are very American
Visual Attention Therapy
Therapy exercises for visual neglect and inattention
Practice & test modes encourage a normal visual scanning pattern (left to right/top to bottom)
Can change settings to adjust line spacing, number of targets, letters &/or symbols and presence of a flashing, coloured target to encourage visual scanning to neglected side
10 levels
Results can be emailed at end of each exercise session
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
Practice mode & test mode
VAST songs 1
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
10 songs to practise different speech sounds, rhythms, pace & rates
You may want to wear headphones
VASTtx therapy samples
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
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For a fee, user can send own phrases to the company for them to create conversation scripts
Exercises for speech sounds and mouth movements
Video and sound recordings to copy
You may need to wear headphones
If you want to use your own phrases, you must pay extra
