Word Meanings (semantics)

Cognishine

SLT Summary

A comprehensive library of activities covering cognition, social emotional skills, language and speech.

Activities intended to enhance cognitive abilities such as memory, attention, cognitive flexibility, information processing, category formation, reasoning, and to encourage spontaneous learning.

Some customisable access features, including cursor type and english accents. Also available in Hebrew and Dutch.

Self practice report

 

Aphasia Summary

Activities aimed at supporting:

Cognition: memory, sequencing, planning, recall, general knowledge

Language: word naming, auditory comprehension, picture description, story telling,

Speech: practice sounds, select specific sounds to practice

Social emotional: point of view, inference, identifying emotions

Price
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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A comprehensive library of activities covering cognition, social emotional skills, language and speech.

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

Memory Lane Games

SLT Summary

Free version provides common category question and answer activities. Picture support. Multiple choice word finding. Variable level of difficulty from easy to hard.

1,500 free games

Subscription version allows import of personal photos.

Clinically endorsed by ORCHA

Aphasia Summary

Quiz

Categories

Word finding

Range of categories in free version.

Can personalise pictures in paid version.

Area Targeted
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Create quiz style games/ word finding activities, based around personal memories.

Access
Record Results
Prompts/cues given
No
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

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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Language
Price
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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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

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.

Language
Price
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
Site Icon
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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

Constant Therapy - Client 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 client version & a clinician version.  The clinician version is free. The client version requires a yearly subscription.

 

Supplier: Constant

 

Aphasia Summary

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

Platforms
Price
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
Site Icon
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Exercises to work on all areas of language but also attention, planning, problem solving within everyday situations

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

Advanced word recall

SLT Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Finding antonyms (fill in the blank)

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No, based on clinician experience



Record own speaking attempts: N/A



Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A





Easy to use? Yes



Customisation/personalisation: No



Error handling: None



Prompts/cues given: First sound, similes

Tutorials: Yes, online



Free trial: free trial available through Advanced Language Therapy Lite app



Support: Via Livechat or the suppliers can take over the user’s PC. All support takes place 9am-5pm New York time



Comments:

  • The online subscription allows access to all the modules available so as the user progresses they don’t need to purchase new modules. It feels like an app when downloaded on an ipad
  • The CD version has more functions than the internet version
  • Remote access to results is possible as long as the SLT has the user’s login & password.

N.B:

    US terminology/vocabulary

Aphasia Summary

Exercises to work on opposites

Language
Area Targeted
Level
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Exercises to work on opposites

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

Parrot figurative language

SLT Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Figurative language/expressions

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No, based on clinician experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Easy to use?: Yes
 

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: None

Record results: Yes

Tutorials: Yes, online

Free trial: Yes but not the complete program

Support: Via Livechat or the suppliers can take over the user’s PC. All support takes place 9am-5pm New York time.

Comments:

  • The online subscription allows access to all the modules available so as the user progresses they don’t need to purchase new modules. It feels like an app when downloaded on an ipad
  • The CD version has more functions than the internet version
  • A download version exists for $19.95 per program but works only on Windows, not mac  
  • Some of the expressions are very American

N.B:
    
    Voice is American and computer generated
    No visual rewards for correct answers

Aphasia Summary

Exercises for understanding expressions.

Some of the expressions are very American

Price
Level
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Exercises for working on expressions

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

Category Therapy

SLT Summary

Type of exercises & brief description

  • Semantic categorisation of 269 nouns (animals, body parts, clothing etc) and adjectives/descriptors (e.g. things that fly)
  • 3 levels (easy, medium & hard). The easy level contains concrete categories, the medium level contains sub-categories, the hard level contains abstract categories
  • 4 sets of exercise: Find, Classify, Exclude & Add one (i.e. find another item to fit the category)
  • 10-50+ items can be selected per exercise
  • The targets can be presented as pictures only, words only or words & pictures. Audio cues are provided
  • A tutorial is provided to demonstrate how the app can be used

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues: None


Record results: Results are shown after the session with % of items named correctly. Results can be emailed to a designated address.

Comments/N.B

  • There is only one version for UK, US, Aus and there are a few American words (e.g. cart, trunk)
  • FREE TRIAL available through the Category Therapy Lite app

Supplier: Tactus

 

Aphasia Summary

 Putting words & pictures into categories

10-50+ items per exercise

4 different types of activity

For practising the meaning of words

Results can be emailed

Free trial available through category therAPPy Lite app

 

 

 

Price
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
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Putting words & pictures into categories

For practising the meaning of words

Results can be emailed

Free trial available through category therapy Lite app

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

Step by Step V5

SLT Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Verbal and written naming of nouns, verbs, adjectives (e.g. people, weather, hobbies, nature, clothes+ customised/personalised vocab  (needs to be able to be pictorially represented))
  • Single word and sentence level spoken word finding
  • Word level semantics
  • Spoken repetition exercises
  • The My Words suite of exercises uses the words the user is practising in a range of different exercises in order to intensively work on the same words in different exerise formats (e.g. matching, repetition, naming, spelling)
  • Up to 10 levels of exercise, gradually increasing in complexity
  • Assessment items provided to gauge start level & vocabulary

Developed with SLT: Yes



Theory based: Yes. Lots of evidence to support this software, some of which is on the research evidence page of this site



Record own speaking attempts: Yes



Correction of own speaking attempts: No



Customisation/personalisation: Yes



Error handling: Yes. Spoken, written, phonemic & video cues given, options reduced & then correct answer provided to copy. Can’t make more than 2 consecutive errors.  Clinician can specifiy degree of accuracy required before the program automatically moves the person onto the next level of exercises or moves them to an easier level of exercise



Prompts/cues given: Yes. Written, spoken, video, phonemic



Tutorials: Yes. Comprehensive, step by step video tutorials provided for each section of the software for both users and clinicians



Free trial: Yes



Support: Free phone support & in-program video tutorials



Comments:

  • Sentence level: e.g. incorporating the word ‘tea’ into the sentence ‘I would like a cup of …’
  • Assessment stimuli can be used as a start guide and for re-assessment of progress
  • Gradual building of skills through graded exercises. User moves on to next level automatically once competent at the previous level (SLT can set the criteria for when to move them on). Equally, if they fail to achieve a certain % the SLT can set the facility to automatically provide an easier level of exercise
  • Can remotely update and download exercises & results (with the clinician version of the software)
  • There is the facility to write therapy notes within the program if the clinician is doing the exercise with the user
  • Personalised vocabulary and photos can be programmed and the clinician can provide the phonemic cue (phonetic keyboard provided) & a video of mouth shapes as well as sentence level examples of the word's use

N.B:

  British accent

 

Aphasia Summary

Type of exercises:

  • Saying words
  • Spelling words
  • Understanding words

Use your own words: Yes



Help given: Yes. Written, spoken and video help



Free trial: Yes



Support: Free



Comments:

  • When you have improved, it automatically moves you up to the next level
  • Your Speech and Language Therapist can give you more exercises and see your results over the internet

N.B:

  British accent

 

Language
Price
Area Targeted
Type of Software
Easy to use independently
Number of exercises
Site Icon
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Exercises for working on saying and spelling words 

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