Speech Ally 1.0
Device: iOS iPad Only
Category: Medical
Price: $59.99 -> $7.99, Version: 1.0 (iTunes)
Description:Speech Ally is a tool for aphasic patients, their therapists, and their family members and caregivers. It uses a single-page keypad of English phonemes (the phonetic building blocks of all English words).
Patients can easily find the correct phoneme because each button speaks its sound when tapped.
Speech Ally is a versatile tool that:
- plays a part in speech therapy conducted by professional therapists.
- lets aphasic patients communicate with sound, using a straightforward phonetic approach.
- is a welcome tool in the home setting, enhancing the lives of patients, family members, and caregivers.
Speech Ally can be introduced at the very start of speech therapy. It supports the gradual progression of the patient's recovery as he or she relearns to construct syllables, words, phrases, and sentences.
Over time, the app becomes a tool for communication as well as therapy. The communication capabilities thereby opened to patients can relieve the terrible frustration felt by those who know what they want to say, but cannot speak it.
There are several customizations available to the therapist, family member, or caregiver that allow the app to be tailored to the patient as his or her abilities change.
Speech Ally also allows users to save words, phrases, and sentences for quick recall and re-use. Beginnings of sentences can be saved, and later recalled and finished to fit the demands of a particular situation.
Speech Ally enables users to associate images with saved words, phrases, and sentences. The images can be selected from Internet sources, or they can be pictures taken with the device's camera.
Speech Ally