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Choose from an array of apps to help adults with aphasia relearn language and writing skills.
Touch-screen mobile devices offer new avenues for treatment and expression for people with aphasia. Here are more than 25 apps speechlanguage pathologists can use with clients with aphasia. So far, this market is dominated by apps for Apple iDevices (iOS), though Android does offer some helpful built-in apps.
Virtual SLP
Watching someone say a word or phrase helps those with severe aphasia and apraxia to repeat it or speak in unison. The Lingraphica Small Talk apps, free for iOS, provide videos and captions of phonemes, blends, words, and phrases (www.aphasia. com/slp/SmallTalk_Apps). SpeakinMotion's apps ($4.99-$ 12.99, iOS, www.speakinmotion.com) pair videos of slow speech and singing with subtitles for practice of common songs, sequences, and conversations. Speech Sounds on Cue-U.S. English ($149.99, iPad only, free trial of /w/ available, http://itunes. apple.com/us/app/speech-sounds-on-cue-for-ipad/ id478653473?mt=8) offers phrase-completion and rhyming tasks with audio feedback.
Language Treatment
Tactus Therapy Solutions offers the Language TherAppy suite of aphasia apps ($59.99 for all four, $14.99-$24.99 each, free trial available, iOS, www. tactustherapy.com) for comprehension, naming, writing, and reading.
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