Understanding written numbers

Number Therapy

SLT Summary

Exercises to work on understanding numbers in the written & spoken form, speaking numbers & writing numbers

Choose to work on numbers in different formats (e.g. money, years, time, fractions, ordinals)

Option to add personalised phone numbers

Option to record spoken attempts

3 difficulty levels

A Free trial is available through the Number Therapy Lite app

Suppliers: App store & google play store

 

Supplier: Tactus

 

Aphasia Summary

Exercises to work on communicating about numbers

 

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Exercises to work on communicating about numbers

Available in US and UK English.

Access
Record Results
Prompts/cues given
Yes
Theory Based
No
Can author/customise
Yes
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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Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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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

Numbers & Sounds

SLT Summary

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

Aphasia Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Speaking, repeating & reading aloud
  • numbers
  • time

Can use own words?: No

Help given: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free

Comments:

  • No pictures (e.g. a clock face)

N.B:
  American voice

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Easy to use independently
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Exercises for practising speaking, repeating & reading aloud numbers and time

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

React2 Visual Processing Module

SLT Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Pre-reading, reading comprehension (single word to paragraph level), spelling, word identification, homonym judgement tasks.
  • Includes:
        picture, shape, photo, symbol, letter and number recognition
        word to paragraph level reading comprehension
        grammar exercises (e.g. correct verb forms)
        anagrams for simple spelling exercises

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Based on SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: None

Record results: Yes

Tutorials: Yes

Free trial: Yes

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

Comments:

  • Highest level word building is high level
  • When building words, can see what the word would look like before making a selection
  • Vast selection of exercises covering a very wide ability range.
  • Paragraph level reading includes high level inference exercises
  • Spelling includes exercises with phonemic chunks which can be confusing

N.B:
    Distractors aren’t always visual, phonemic or semantic
    Some people may find some line drawings confusing
    All spelling exercises are based on anagrams. There are no exercises for generating whole word spelling
    British accent

This program can be purchased as a monthly subscription which gives access to all the React2.com modules. This may work out cheaper than purchasing the stand alone module, depending on how long it is needed for. A stand alone, offline version exists for those without internet access.

Supplier: React
 

Aphasia Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Recognising
        pictures
        shapes
        photos
        symbols
  • Reading
        letters
        words
        paragraphs
  • Spelling
        anagrams

Can use own words?: No

Help given: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free

Comments:

  • Highest level is hard
  • Very big selection of exercises for a wide ability range

N.B:
    Some people may find some line drawings confusing
    All spelling exercises are based on anagrams – not actual spelling of words
    British accent

Price
Area Targeted
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Reading and spelling exercises

This is not an app but behaves like one.

NB: the price guide is for a monthly subscription, not a one-off purchase

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

React2 Life Skills Module

SLT Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Money
  • Time
  • Functional Reading
  • Pragmatics

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Based on SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: None

Tutorials: Yes

Free trial: Yes

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

Comments:

  • Money – recognising, matching, calculating costs & change, solving money problems
  • Clock – setting clock faces, solving time problems (including days, months & years)
  • Functional Reading – e.g. labels, menus, receipts, adverts etc with multiple choice answers.
  • Pragmatics – intonation, idioms, getting your message across and choosing what you would do/say in social situations

N.B:
    Module covers very different skills at very different levels.
    Some exercises need good listening skills, some need reading skills and some need both
    Big difference in the number of exercises for each section. E.g. the clock problems have over 1000 exercises but the pragmatics only has 200
    British accent.

This program can be purchased as a monthly subscription which gives access to all the React2.com modules. This may work out cheaper than purchasing the stand alone module, depending on how long it is needed for. A stand alone, offline version exists for those without internet access.

Supplier: React


 

Aphasia Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Money
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Conversation rules
  • Can use own words?: No

Help given: No

Record results: Yes

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free

Comments:

  • Money – recognising, matching, calculating costs & change
  • Time – setting a clock + days, months & years
  • Reading – e.g. labels, menus, receipts, adverts
  • Conversation rules – intonation, getting your message across, choosing what you would do/say

N.B:
    Covers very different skills at very different levels.
    Some exercises need good listening, some need good reading and some need both
    British accent
 

Price
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Life skills exercises (money, time, reading)

This is not an app but behaves like one.

NB: the price guide is for a monthly subscription, not a one-off purchase

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