Aphasia App

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.

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

Picture naming tasks where the person can record their own spoken attempt

The user must build a sentence to describe a picture.  The choice of words may include: subject, object, verb, adjective, modifier, connectors, prepositions

3 levels of exercise

Audio reinforcement is provided for correct answers

Could be useful for working on agrammatisms

Verbal word finding exercises for 104 words associated with men, based on semantic feature analysis

A picture is presented for the person to name.  8 levels of cue are available (including phonemic, initial letter spelling, semantic description)

The exercises encourage semantic questioning (What type of thing is this? Can you describe it?)

The many levels of cue would be useful for communication partners wanting useful strategies to adopt to aid word finding

Specific stimuli can be presented from 104 items if wanting to work on specific items only

There is no option to record own speaking attempts

% scores recorded

Verbal word finding exercises for 106 common household object words based on semantic feature analysis

A picture is presented for the person to name.  8 levels of cue are provided (including phonemic, semantic description and initial written letter)

The exercises encourage semantic questioning (what would I use it for? where would I find it?)

The many levels of cue would be useful for communication partners to cue them into helpful strategies to use to aid word finding

Stimuli to be presented can be specified from 106 items

There is no option to record own speaking attempts

% scores are recorded

Verbal word finding exercises for 101 personal object words based on semantic feature analysis

A picture is presented for the person to name. 8 levels of cue are available (including phonemic, initial written letter, semantic descriptions)

The exercises encourage semantic questioning (what does it do? where would I find it?)

The many levels of cue would be useful for communication partners to cue the person with helpful strategies to adopt for word finding

Specific stimuli to be presented can be chosen from list of 101 items

There is no option to record own speaking attempts

% scores are recorded

Verbal word finding exercises for 103 nature words based on semantic feature analysis.

A picture is presented for the person to name. 8 levels of cue are available (including phonemic, initial letter, descriptions).

The exercises encourage semantic questioning (what type of thing is it? what does it do? etc).

The many levels of cue would be useful to communication partners to cue them into helpful strategies to adopt to aid word finding

There is no option to record own speaking attempts

Stimuli to be presented can be specified from the 106 items to work only on specific items if required

% scores are recorded

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

Word to picture, picture to word and word to word matching

Phrase to picture, picture to phrase and phrase to phrase matching

Picture to sentence, sentence to sentence matching

Sentence completion

12 categories of everyday words to choose from

Results are recorded and can be emailed