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Bitsboard

SLT Summary

App designed for creating therapy exercises

Create 'boards' of vocab to practise and incorporate these into spelling games (anagrams, missing letters, word search, cross words) or semantic exercises (odd one out, sorting exercises) or sequencing exercises.  Set up easy familiarisation activities for the user to familiarise themselves with the vocab items

The user can also record their speaking attempts

Suggested photos and voice recordings are provided but you can choose your own if you prefer

Aphasia Summary

App designed for SLTs to create personalised therapy exercises

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

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

Cuespeak

SLT Summary

Work on answering questions with help

Questions on current affairs, updated weekly

Work on asking questions and social phrases

Work on people’s names with video and spelling practice

Spelling with sounds

Letter spelling

Rhyme judgement

Reading tasks

Matching tasks

Sentence processing (e.g reversible sentence ordering)

Written & spoken sentence building

Semantic associations

Tasks for working on verbs in a sentence context

Conversation starters

Articulation: 5000+ videos of target words and phrases, including breakdown into individual syllables & phonemes

Features a communication props drawer with maps, drawing board, numbers, time 

Multiple ways to create hierarchies (e.g. according to word length, sound, frequency, number of phonemes)

Video tutorials are provided to demonstrate how the app works & each exercise has its own tutorial to demonstrate how to complete the exercises

Can create multiple therapy sessions and can share sessions over internet

Error handling: Wrong answers are removed; the response is read aloud for the user to judge;  contextual information is given

Prompts/cues: Closure cues; spoken word

Record results: Results are shown after the session with % of items completed correctly. Can request additional details about accuracyspeed and help requested. Results can also be emailed to the clinician.

Option to break up sentence level questions into chunks to support reading and listening

Comments:  

  • Can choose option for items to remain on the screen until the user moves onto the next exercise (i.e. no automatic scrolling onto the next item).  This is useful when used in therapy to discuss the user’s response
  • Advanced settings for SLT to designate exercise features for each exercise set
  • Remote management/allocation of exercises and results

Free version, monthly subscription option, 1 & 3 year subscription options

Aphasia Summary

Includes a comprehensive range of exercises, including:

Work on answering questions 

Questions on current affairs, updated weekly

Spelling with sounds

Reading tasks

Written & spoken sentence building

Tasks for working on verbs in a sentence context

Conversation starters

Video tutorials are provided

Record results

Free version, monthly subscription option, 1 & 3 year subscription options

 

 

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Exercises for saying words and sentences and exercises for spelling

Exercises for working on word meanings, spelling and understanding sentences

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

Say it: English Pronunciation

SLT Summary

Name of app

Say it: Pronunciation from Oxford

 

Type of exercises & brief description

 

  • Type a word and the app will pronounce it with a human voice
  •  Record your own spoken attempt and compare with the model using audio visual touchscreen analysis
  • Score your attempt according to how you think you did
  • Save your scored words into a personalised word list
  • 2 modes: ‘Look up a word’ to practise specific words or ‘Test mode’ (Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced/Random)
  • Bank of 30,000 British English words to practise in purchased app

 

Error handling

None

Prompts/cues

None

 

Record results

No but speech attempts can be emailed to your speech & language therapist

Developer

Oxford University Press & Phona limited

Supplier

App store

Comments/N.B

·      This is an EFL app designed for foreigners to improve their pronunciation of English

·      Requires good spelling to find the words (or a word list could be provided by a therapist for the user to copy)

·      Using the ‘Look up a word’ mode, the user could practise specific words they wish to practise

 

 

Aphasia Summary

Practise speaking words

Type a word and the app will pronounce it

Record your own speech, compare it & send results to your speech therapist

Score your speech according to how you think you did

Look up a word to practise or use the ‘Test mode’ 

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

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

A+ spelling test

SLT Summary

Personalised word lists for spelling practise

Create your own, personalised spelling lists & record the associated spoken word

2 functions:

Spell to dictation

Unscramble anagrams (spoken word also provided)

Results are recorded & errors are highlighted. Can select to correct errors at the end of each exercise

Results can be emailed

No prompts or cues

 

Aphasia Summary

Practise spelling your own, personalised word lists

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Practise spelling your own, personalised word lists

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

Memorado

SLT Summary

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

Can tailor exercises to particular needs (e.g. memorising names, multitasking, concentrating in busy environments)

Perhaps useful for those with TBI

 

Aphasia Summary

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

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

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

Interactive telling time lite

SLT Summary

Games for telling the time on an analogue clock.

It is designed for children but can be a useful resource for adults with aphasia who struggle with time telling.

You are given a digital time to set on an analogue clock or you can stop the clock when it gets to the correct time

Aphasia Summary

Games for telling the time on an analogue clock.

It is designed for children but can be useful for adults with aphasia who struggle with time telling

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Games for working on telling the time on an analogue clock

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

TalkPath Therapy

SLT Summary

Writing exercises:

  • Copying letters & words
  • Written picture naming
  • Complete the phrase (spell a word to complete a saying)
  • Sentence scramble (re-arranging words to form a short sentence)

Speaking exercises:

  • Articulation & oro-motor exercises
  • Functional spoken word & phrase repetition
  • Flashcard naming (spoken picture naming of nouns, verbs & adjectives)
  • Naming using semantic feature analysis strategies

Reading exercises:

  • Letter, word and phrase matching
  • Written word/sentence to picture matching
  • Written word sentence completion
  • Article reading based around current news topics

Listening exercises:

  • Spoken word to picture matching
  • Spoken phrase to picture matching
  • Spoken question to picture matching
  • Following auditory directions

There is also a large bank of memory, semantic categorisation & maths exercises 

There is also a large bank of ADL exercises (e.g. reading menus, reading product labels, telling the time and reading calendar entries).

The memory and ADL exercises also work on various language areas e.g. auditory memory, functional reading, semantics, auditory comprehension and inferences.

Error handling: Yes

Prompts/cues: Yes

Record results: Yes, very detailed, specifying which cues were required, which answer was chosen, how long the task took to complete and dates tasks were attempted

Comments/N.B

• There is only one version for UK, US, Aus

• 3-4 levels of difficulty, depending on exercises

• Very large bank of over 13,500 items

• Reliant on the user self monitoring and knowing whether they named the item correctly or not.

There is no facility for recording speech attempts and the app itself does not determine level of accuracy. This app would therefore not be appropriate for independent use by someone with poor self monitoring

• FREE TRIAL available

Aphasia Summary

Exercises for practising speaking and repeating words, copying letters and spelling words, listening, and also reading letters, words, sentences and phrases. Also exercises for word meanings, remembering, time and number calculations.

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Exercises for practising speaking and repeating words, copying letters and spelling words, listening, and also reading letters, words, sentences and phrases. Also exercises for word meaning, remembering, time, number calculations.

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

Aphasia Therapy Online

SLT Summary

Program: Aphasia therapy online

Type of exercises:

  • listening (auditory/word matching, auditory/picture matching, spell a spoken word, auditory letter discrimination)
  • reading (single words & short phrases, matching upper/lower case letters, answering simple, written Y/N questions, auditory letter discrimination)
  • spelling (picture naming & spelling spoken words)
  • written picture naming, spoken picture naming

Access: keyboard & mouse

Developed with SLT: yes

Theory based: no

Record own speaking attempts: no

Correction of own speaking attempts: no

Number of exercises: several levels and 40-50 items per exercise

Easy to use? yes

Customisation/personalisation: no

Error handling: only 1 error is allowed before answer is given, to prevent errorful learning 

Prompts/cues given: initial letter/semantic cue, can limit word length

Record results: no

Tutorials: no

Free trial: program is free

Support: from the SLT who developed it

Comments: user must make own judgement of whether spoken naming was correct. No spoken models are provided to make this judgment

Languages: In addition to English, this resource is available in both European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese - either the therapy tasks or the entire website as preferred.

Aphasia Summary

Free, online software to work on listening, reading, spelling and saying words

Available in English, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.

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Free, online software to work on listening, reading, spelling and saying words

Available in  English, Arabic, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu

 

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

Popplet

SLT Summary

Designed to capture and organise ideas but could provide a useful tool for generating communication with photo/picture support. For example, someone could use it to generate a simple family tree to show relationships which they are unable to express verbally.  Another use could be to discuss an issue and attach all the feelings surrounding that issue. Another possibility could be for semantic therapy.

The possibilities are endless, it is content free and therefore can be used however the user sees fit.

Aphasia Summary

Communication organiser

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Communication organisation

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

Language Therapy

SLT Summary

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

Aphasia Summary

4 bundle app containing Comprehension Therapy, Naming Therapy, Writing Therapy & Reading Therapy

Exercises for understanding, naming, spelling and reading

Price
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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4 bundle app containing Comprehension Therapy, Naming Therapy, Writing Therapy & Reading Therapy

Exercises for understanding, naming, spelling and reading

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