Reading Therapy vs Memory Exercises

1800+ phrase & sentence level reading comprehension tasks with the option of creating your own exercises! **Try for FREE as part of Language Therapy Lite or purchase in our 4-in-1 bundle: Language Therapy ** This app gives adults with neurological impairment (stroke, brain injury, aphasia) and older children with special needs the practice they need in between reading words and reading stories. It's a digital workbook of semantically organized reading comprehension tasks with the added ability for you to create your own exercises in each mode! Goal Areas: Reading Comprehension, Attention, Problem Solving, Visual Processing, Reasoning Can be used with: Aphasia, Alexia, Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Cognitive-Communication Impairment, Brain Injury, Early Language Learners, Language Learning Disability, Autism, English as a Second Language Learners Features: *4 modes with over 450 exercises each, for 1,800+ reading comprehension practice items 1)Phrase Matching 2)Sentence Matching 3)Phrase Completion 4)Sentence Completion *Hundreds of clear full-color photographs selected by a Speech-Language Pathologist used in both matching modes *Carefully-crafted foils on each exercise challenge users to read carefully *Clean interface with symbol support allows for independent use *Automated scoring allows for easy data-tracking *Wrong answers are grayed out once selected *Forward and back buttons allow users to skip items and go back to discuss completed items or retry skipped exercises *Child-friendly mode removes references to adult themes and disables links to outside sites *Users see their answers paired with the stimulus for reinforcement of the correct answer *Turn any picture/word on or off *Limit answer choices to 2, 3, or 4, or automatically adjust based on performance *Results can be e-mailed in a ​report-ready format so clients can keep their therapist informed of their progress and therapists can send results to themselves for charting later, using the copy-and-paste ready format to decrease documentation time

Memory Exercises app was designed to help improve and maintain short-term memory, attention, processing speed, and working memory of those adults who are either challenged due to the aging process or have been diagnosed with mild dementia, or suffered from a stroke and other related brain injuries. The app includes a variety of tasks that use auditory and visual processing of written and pictorial stimuli. These functional tasks such as, visual/auditory recall of written and picture-based information, delayed recall, and retrieval strategies are geared toward day to day activities. Also, the app has multiple levels for each task that can be used for challenging cognitive flexibility and mental agility of clients based on the literature available on evidence-based practice (e.g., Moro et al., 2012; Olchik et al., 2013) Memory Exercises app includes the following tasks: Visual recall of scenes Visual recall of objects Visual/auditory recall of written words and sentences Auditory recall of paragraphs Recall of personal information Recall of recent information Matching memory card game Memory Exercises app is easy to navigate and allows users to employ several tools to perform the following tasks: • Enter multiple clients • Change settings and use randomization • Adjust delay of stimuli and time of presentation • Select different types of background noise • Track correct and incorrect responses • E-mail and print results at the end of the session References: Moro, V., Condoleo, M.T., Sala, F., Pemigo, S., Moretto, G., & Gambina, G. (2012). Cognitive stimulation in MCI: An experimental study. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias, 27, 2, 121-130. Olchik, M.R., Farina, J., Steibel, N., Teixeira, A.R. & Yassuda, M.S. (2013). Memory training (MT) in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) generates change in cognitive performance. Archives of Geriatrics and Gerontology and Geriatrics, 56, 3, 442-447.