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Up to 4 words are presented for the user to make a sentence.

Many settings: words only, spoken hints, picture hints, choose sentence length (2-4 words), pick specific words or sentences to work on, uppercase or lowercase presentation, autoprogression option

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.

For working on speech sound production. May be useful when working on phonological awareness, articulation, dyspraxia, reading (phonics)

Can choose to work on one or all of: initial sounds, initial clusters, final sounds, final clusters and can work on these phonemes in isolation or within words/non-words

The sounds/words are then presented in a flipbook which is divided into 3 parts each of which flip over separately.  For example, allowing the user to practise a specific phoneme in final position with many different initial and/or medial phonemes

Highly cutomiseable. It is possible to generate personalised word/non-word lists

The user can record their own speech attempts

Supplier: Tactus

Free trial version of speech sounds on cue for ipad

Look at speech sounds on cue for ipad for full description of full app

N.B: only available through the app store, not through the developer's site

Brief description

• Free, text to speech app. You type in text and it reads it aloud.
• You can save your messages to use again,  instantly, without having to re-type your message
   

Type of exercises & brief description             

• Speech exercise videos  for 7 days of the week, 12 months of the year and 1st to 31st
• Videos and voice recordings to copy

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: None

Comments/N.B

• Limited program  but it is free and could be useful as part of dyspraxia and aphasia therapy
• Can allocate specific days, months, dates to work on
• American voice

Type of exercises & brief description             

• 34 speech exercise videos for common phrases useful to someone with aphasia (e.g. call back later, can you write that for me?, speak slowly etc)
• Videos and voice recordings to copy

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: None

Comments/N.B

• Limited program  but it is free and could be useful as part of dyspraxia and aphasia therapy
• Can allocate specific phrases to work on
• American voice

Type of exercises & brief description             

• 74 speech exercise videos of 2-3 consonant blends
• Videos and voice recordings to copy

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: None

Comments/N.B

• Limited program  but it is free and could be useful as part of dyspraxia and aphasia therapy
• Can allocate specific blends to work on
• American voice

Type of exercises & brief description             

• Practise speech exercises for 26 (capital) letters of the alphabet, numbers 1-20 and 12 colours
• Videos and voice recordings of letters & words to copy

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: None

Comments/N.B

• Limited program  but it is free and could be useful as part of dyspraxia and aphasia therapy
• Can allocate specific letters, numbers, colours to work on
• American voice

Type of app & brief description       

• Spaced retrieval technique to help memory of facts, procedures and other information. The person has a target question they must answer at regular intervals (e.g. what is your wife’s name).

Comments/N.B

• Not for independent practice, need someone working alongside & to program prompt questions
• With creative use, could be useful for functional word finding
   

Supplier: Tactus