Repeating words

Type of exercises:

• Verbal single word naming of numbers, amounts and time
• Verbal single word repetition of numbers, amounts and time

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: Yes

Correction of own speaking attempts: No

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: No

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Up to 150 exercises for each ‘lesson’.
• No visual cues (e.g. pictorial representation of a number or a clock face)
• Aimed at reading aloud numbers, time or money amounts

N.B:
  Model voice is American
  Supplier details:
  

Type of exercises:

• Word or sentence level speaking.
• Spoken conversation phrases
• Describing pictures
• Answering Yes/No questions
• Turning statements into questions

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No

Record own speaking attempts: Yes

Correction of own speaking attempts: No

Customisation/personalisation: Yes. Can modify the exercises provided or create your own. Opportunity to create exercises around specific sounds, not just words and phrases

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: Written model, spoken model, written cues, can provide own for customised exercises

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments: Can customise or modify exercises so can use an alternative accent

N.B:
    Exercises provided are Americanised

Type of exercises:

• Verbal single word naming
• Verbal single word repetition
• Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: Yes

Correction of own speaking attempts: No

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: No

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Over 500 exercises for practising verbal word finding with nouns, verbs and prepositions.
• Can record & listen to own attempt and compare with model.
• Can only add customised exercises with the deluxe version.

N.B:
    Model voice is American
 

Type of exercises:

• Word or sentence level speaking.
• Spoken conversation phrases
• Describing pictures
• Answering Yes/No questions
• Turning statements into questions

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No

Correction of own speaking attempts: No

Customisation/personalisation: Yes. Can modify the exercises provided or create your own

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: Yes. Written model, spoken model, written cues, can provide own for customised exercises

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments: Can customise or modify exercises so can use an alternative accent

N.B:
    Exercises provided are Americanised

 

Type of exercises:    Speech production, single word and sentence level targeting a range of linguistic/grammar structures.

Examples of exercises provided:

• sentences with prepositions
• sentences with adjectives
• sentences with prepositions and adjectives
• why questions
• complex sentences with multiple verbs and nouns

Access:    Mouse (including click & drag), Touchscreen

Developed with SLT:    Yes

Theory based:    Yes 

Record own speaking attempts:    Yes

Correction of own speaking attempts:    No, the program does not judge the correctness of utterances

Number of exercises:    Over 800 + unlimited if creating own

Easy to use?    To some extent

Customisation/personalisation:    Yes

Error handling:    None

Prompts/cues given:    Yes. Words/sentences are modelled. User can listen to verbal models of each word. Sentence completion words are provided. Possible to customise own prompts (e.g. semantic ones). Model sentences are also provided.

Record results:    Yes. The users’ speech (& photos) can be made into a video which they can send to others directly from within the program, via email (Windows version) or, in the iOS version, via the full range of sharing options (email, messaging, Facebook, Instagram, etc)

Tutorials:    Yes

Free trial:    Yes but not full version

Support:    Free technical support via email or phone

Comments:

• Ability to customise own exercises with target vocabulary
• Don’t need any reading or spelling skills to use
• Practising speech at sentence level at the user’s own level and speed
• Designed to encourage self-monitoring of speech so whilst there are example models, there are also no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers
• Word finder dictionaries (customiseable) are available to aid sentence construction

N.B:    

• need to use click and drag if not using a touchscreen
• interface could be difficult to follow initially for some users 
• American accent

Supplier details:    www.sentenceshaper.com 
 

Type of exercises:

• Verbal single word naming
• Verbal single word repetition

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: Yes

Correction of own speaking attempts: No

Customisation/personalisation: Yes

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: No

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Over 500 exercises for practising verbal word finding with nouns, verbs and prepositions.
• Can record & listen to own attempt and compare with model.
• Can only add customised exercises with the deluxe version.

N.B:
    Model voice is American