Free

Project QWERTY

SLT Summary

Free software designed for people living with aphasia.

Practice spelling/ typing

Access via mouse or touch screen

Range of categories: social media, text messaging, online shopping, frequently used words

Personalise with own word categories

Collate results across tasks

Choose level of support / difficulty

Aphasia Summary

Free software designed for people living with aphasia.

Practice spelling/ typing

Access via mouse or touch screen

Range of categories: social media, text messaging, online shopping, frequently used words

Personalise with own word categories

Collate results across tasks

Choose level of support / difficulty

Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Typing and spelling practice designed for people living with aphasia

Record Results
Prompts/cues given
Yes
Theory Based
Yes
Can author/customise
Yes
Free trial
Yes

Our Story2

SLT Summary

Create photo stories with photos, written text and audio recordings. Could be used to tell stories, as a talking photo album, to keep memories, to plan tasks

Aphasia Summary

Using personal photos, written text and audio recordings you can create talking photo albums, task planners, stories to tell others

Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
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App for creating personalised photo stories

Access
Prompts/cues given
No
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
Yes
Free trial
Yes

CanPlan

SLT Summary

Visual calendar & task sequencing for activities of daily living

Use personalised photos, videos, text and audio to break tasks down into easy to follow steps to increase independence

Set reminders  for task prompts

Aphasia Summary

Visual calendar & personalised step by step instructions for daily tasks (e.g. making a meal; doing the laundry; buying a train ticket)

Use personalised photos, videos, text and voice recordings for each step of a task

Set reminders to do a task at a certain time

Platforms
Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
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Visual calendar & personalised step by step instructions for daily tasks

Access
Prompts/cues given
Yes
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
Yes
Free trial
Yes

Constant Therapy - Clinician version

SLT Summary

60 tasks with a functional bias to work on:

  • Auditory comprehension (sounds/words/paragraphs/rhyming/auditory instructions)
  • Speech (word repetition, picture naming, reading aloud)
  • Semantics (written & spoken)
  • Spelling (picture naming, copying, anagrams, auditory naming)
  • Reading (picture-word matching, reading comprehension, written lexical decision making)
  • Attention
  • Visual processing
  • Time telling
  • Map reading
  • Cognitive function
  • Problem solving
  • Planning
  • Reading & understanding numbers

There are 2 versions of the therapy app - a user version & a clinician version

In the clinician version, the clinician can remotely edit exercise sets and access results

 

Supplier: Constant

 

Aphasia Summary

Exercises to work on all areas of language, but also attentionplanning and problem solving within everyday situations

 

Platforms
Price
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Exercises to work on all areas of language but also attentionplanningproblem solving within everyday situations

 

Access
Record Results
Prompts/cues given
Yes
Theory Based
Yes
Can author/customise
No
Free trial
Yes

ClaroMagX

SLT Summary

Use a smartphone or tablet to magnify text or images 

Brief description

  • Point the phone or tablet at an image or text and use the on-screen magnifier function to increase the size of the text or image for someone with visual difficulties

 

Aphasia Summary

Use a smartphone or tablet as a magnifier 

Evaluation
Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
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Use a smartphone or tablet as a magnifier 

Access
Prompts/cues given
No
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
No
Free trial
Yes

ClaroSpeak

SLT Summary

Text to speech program. Reads text aloud as it is typed so you can listen to what you are typing 

Brief description

  • Spelling errors are highlighted and alternative suggestions are given
  • Word prediction can be enabled
  • Option to hear each word as it's typed or to listen only when a sentence is completed

 

Who could benefit

People who 

Aphasia Summary

Text to speechReads text aloud as you type

Language
Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
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Text to speech. Reads text aloud as you type

Prompts/cues given
No
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
Yes
Free trial
Yes

Claro ScanPen

SLT Summary

Screen reading software. Take a photo of written text and it will read the text back to you aloud

Brief description

  • Available as an app or software

  • Choose to hear the text read word by word, line by line or hear the whole text read out

  • Speed up/slow down the screen reading voice

Aphasia Summary

Take a photo of written text & the app will read the text aloud

 

Language
Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
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Screen reader software

Speaks written text aloud for those who find reading difficult

Record Results
Prompts/cues given
No
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
Yes
Free trial
Yes

Make Write

SLT Summary

Free app co-designed by consultants with aphasia and researchers at City University to encourage people with aphasia to engage in creative writing

Select a piece of writing (your own or one of the 10 included) as your starting point. Automatically erase most of the words to reveal a small set of words to work with. Add and erase words until you have a set of words you'd like to work with. Arrange these words to make a piece of writing and save a photo of it or share it via Twitter or the other apps on your ipad (e.g. email, text, Whats App etc).

 

 

Aphasia Summary

Have fun re-arranging words to write some text, a poem or pure nonsense

Platforms
Language
Price
Area Targeted
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Free creative writing app

Record Results
Prompts/cues given
No
Theory Based
Yes
Can author/customise
Yes
Free trial
Yes

Advanced Language Therapy Lite

SLT Summary

Free demo app for Advanced Language Therapy

Try out exercises for Advanced Comprehension Therapy, Advanced Naming Therapy, Advanced Reading Therapy & Advanced Writing Therapy apps (search each app separately for more detailed information)

1 trial is provided for each section of each app to enable you to inform purchase decisions for the apps which can be purchased separately or as a bundle in Advanced Language Therapy

Supplier: Tactus

Aphasia Summary

Free demo app for Advanced Language Therapy

Try out exercises for understandingnamingreading & writing

Language
Price
Level
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Free demo app for Advanced Language Therapy

Try out exercises for understanding, naming, reading & writing

Access
Prompts/cues given
No
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
No
Free trial
Yes

Seeing AI

SLT Summary

Free app which describes the world around you (designed for people with vision impairment)

Point the phone camera at:

- short typed or handwritten text (e.g. a greetings card) & it will speak it aloud

- whole documents & it will speak the text aloud

- barcodes & it will speak out the product name

-  a scene & it will give an auditory description (e.g. busy street with people & cars)

- a person & it will describe them (e.g. a 40 year old, happy blonde woman). If the person has been saved in the user's photos, it will speak out their name.

- currency and it will speak out the amount

Aphasia Summary

Point your phone camera at:

- a greetings card 

- documents

- a person 

 

- currency

and it will speak out and describe what it is

Platforms
Language
Evaluation
Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
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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

Access
Prompts/cues given
No
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
No
Free trial
Yes