Naming Therapy vs Talk Around It Home

"Great!!! This is a fantastic and very practical application! This app is well worth it! 5 stars!" "This app has proven to be very helpful for multiple children on my caseload who have difficulty using expanded descriptive language. 5 stars!" Naming Therapy is the best-selling word-finding app to help people with aphasia and children with special needs practice important naming and description skills. Designed by a Speech-Language Pathologist for use in the home and clinic, this app features beautiful photos, real voice, and full customization with over 700 words included! ***Try it for FREE as part of Language Therapy Lite*** ***One of four full apps included in Language Therapy*** This app has 4 parts: 1) Naming Practice: 400+ pictured nouns with an evidence-based cueing hierarchy and optional self-scoring, with the option to add your own photos and cues. The app records which cue was used to get the correct answer and produces a score report for email. Use different cues within Naming Practice to target confrontation naming, responsive naming, phrase completion, repetition, and oral reading. 2) Describe: 580+ pictures with 4-6 semantic & 4 phonemic question prompts for semantic feature analysis, phonological components analysis, and expanding expression skills. You can add your own words and select from 25 prompts to go with them. Icons representing questions prompting for information about the appearance, category, function, shape, size, color, taste, location and more surround each picture. Target sound knowledge by hearing prompts for first and last sound, rhyming words, and syllables. 3) Naming Test: a set presentation of 30 pictures with scoring and a report. This is a non-standardized test intended for screening a person's ability to name common items. It contains common and less common items of the categories contained in this app. A perfect screener! 4) Flashcards: 700+ clear, full-color pictures including verbs and adjectives; touch to hear the spoken word or see the printed word with the ability to add your own pictures. Use the verb pictures to create sentences or implement response elaboration training. Features: *Limit words by syllable length to just practice the short ones or target the longer ones - perfect for apraxia *Real recorded male voice provides a neutral accent in 5 languages with slow, natural speech for easy comprehension *Child-friendly mode turns off references to alcohol and violence and deactivates links to outside sites on the home screen *Database controls let you turn each word on or off within the app, so you can customize even further *Tap is the only motion required - no dragging, swiping or pinching needed for new users and those with motor impairment NO in-app purchase and NO collection or sharing of private information. 50% discount for Education Volume Purchase Program - put this app in every classroom!

*British English version Talk Around It Home helps people with word finding difficulties to practise Naming Techniques and improve Word Retrieval. Developed by Speech and Language Therapists, Talk Around It uses evidence-based techniques to treat conditions such as aphasia, anomia, stroke, dementia, alzheimer’s and autism. It now includes over 100 high quality pictures with support for high-density Retina displays, over 900 Cues, Testing and Progress Reports to document patients’ progress. The Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT) review: 'Talk Around It apps have therapeutic benefit and shall be a good medium within treatment to target word finding deficits for specific cohort of patients……..I would recommend these apps and will have them in my therapy toolbox.' (IASLT Magazine, spring/summer 2014 Talk Around It now offers Naming exercises, Testing, Progress Reports and the option to customise. These features make it the most comprehensive and affordable app on the market to help with word finding. **Try the FREE version to see how the features can help you** New updates include: Picture Customisation: Option to omit pictures and create a favourites list Testing: Test 10 words, 50 words or your Favourite Words Progress Reports: View patient progress showing results over time and by test type Enhanced audio Key Features Over 100 quality images (Retina displays supported) Over 900 cues (audio and written) Semantic questions for circumlocution Evidence-based practice techniques Option to hide timer in test mode Easy to use interface No ads or in-app purchases Talk Around It is used in clinical and home settings to treat a range of speech disorders including anomia and aphasia. Using Talk Around It helps with • Word finding or naming skills • Cued Lexical Retrieval • Receptive and expressive language • Self-cuing to help word finding • Circumlocution skills Our users like the accessibility of the app and the simplicity of the interface. Just download the app and begin your naming practice using the hi-res photographic images, audio and written cues. Speech and Language Therapists using our app say: “…a very useful tool to aid in the generalisation of strategies learned in one-to-one therapy sessions.” (Kerrie, SLT, Ireland) “Easy to use app. Clear pictures and nice interface. Accessible for children.” (Trudy, SLT, Singapore) “Visually this app looks really well. The pictures are clear and the layout of the app is understandable and user friendly. The cues available are thorough and easy to understand. …. I could definitely see this being useful in therapy.” (Eimear, SLT, Ireland) Talk Around It apps are available in British English, American English, Spanish, Hindi and Brazilian Portuguese. For a full list of Talk Around It Home vocabulary click here: http://www.neurohero.com/talk-around-it-home/