Reading Therapy vs Problem Solve It

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

Research suggests that performance on cognitive tasks resembling daily challenges (i.e. everyday problem-solving tasks) is a better indicator of functional cognitive abilities in individuals with cognitive deficits (e.g. Gold, 2012; Kimbler, 2013). The Problem Solve It app is designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments resulting, for example, from a stroke or early stages of dementia. The problems selected in this app are functional in nature and relate to social communication, management of finances, health, literacy, education, and personal thinking. Problem solving is an important skill in our day-to-day activities, and while performing various tasks in this app such as problem-solving based on case scenarios and sentence completion with “if,” the user will be able to identify the problem, examine the possible options, and think creatively to seek strategic approaches to problem solving. The app has six different types of tasks geared toward problem solving. The tasks pertain to everyday math problems, analysis of short scenarios, case-based solutions, sentence completion, missing links in a sequence of activities, and predictions of problems in given scenarios. Problem Solve it is engaging, with real photographs, multiple-choice options and open ended questions. Problem Solve it is easy to navigate and allows users to employ several tools to perform the following: - enter multiple users - change settings - save selected targets for the next session - select auto-scoring - select alternate counts for multiple users - enable or disable special effect sounds - audio record users’ responses - track correct and incorrect responses - view reports in table and graphical forms - e-mail results at the end of the game References: Gold, D. A. (2012). An examination of instrumental activities of daily living assessment in older adults and mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 34, 11-34. Kimbler, K.J. (2013). Everyday Problem Solving and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: Support for Domain Specificity. Behavioral Sciences, 3, 1, 170-191. Author: Jayanti Ray, Ph. D. CCC-SLP Developed by: Virtual Speech Center Inc.