Train Talk! vs Comprehension Aphasia

Train Talk is for children who love to talk about trains. This app helps direct that conversation to learn to ask and answer WH questions. Here are 128 pictures with question prompts and sample answers to encourage turn taking, spontaneous speech, conversational skills, and auditory comprehension. Who knew Train Talk could be so much fun! Appropriate for precocious Pre-school and Adult individuals that have a fondness for Trains. Exercises will be interesting to Adults with Aphasia, Apraxia, and Dysarthria for speech, language, and literacy practice. This task requires the ability to attend to a series of complex auditory stimuli, analyze the sound segments, and imitate these sounds in sequence. It requires auditory processing at the sound, syllable, phrase, and sentence levels with imitative or spontaneous expressive articulatory production. This is an excellent game for building auditory memory, practicing question formation, responding to questions, and practicing forming sentences with pronouns. Reading can also be practiced by turning the volume off. A clear speech model is presented for the child to imitate and they can record and play back their own speech. The clinician can choose from three scoring methods. 1. Score each response as correct, distorted or incorrect. 2. Score responses as correct, distorted, substituted, or omitted. 3. Score productions based on whether they are spontaneously correct/incorrect or imitatively correct/incorrect. This app is based on the Train Talk game from LocuTour’s Train Time CD.

****I like that this app includes so many different activity choices and different levels. One thing that this app includes that most do not is background noise. This is great for working on a student's ability to focus on a task and ignore distractions. (Simply Speech)**** ****Comprehension Aphasia is a great app for anyone working on improving their auditory processing/receptive language abilities. It's a comprehensive app that allows you to work on so much, while increasing cognitive and linguistic complexity. (Carrie's Speech Corner)**** The Comprehension Aphasia app was created by a certified speech and language pathologist for adults and children, and it focuses on auditory comprehension of increasingly longer and complex yes-no- questions and directions with the ability to turn on background noise. The Comprehension Aphasia app can be used by individuals who exhibit: -Aphasia, secondary to brain injury such as stroke -Cognitive deficits such as decreased attention - Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) -Receptive language disorders and Autism Comprehension Aphasia includes more than 1,700 pre-recorded audio instructions in the following activities: -Yes-no questions with six levels of difficulty -Basic Directions with one element with 12 levels of difficulty - Basic Directions with two elements with 12 levels of difficulty - Temporal Directions with 18 levels of difficulty - Conditional Directions with nine levels of difficulty The Comprehension Aphasia app is easy to navigate and allows users to use several tools to perform the following tasks: -Enter multiple users -Change settings -Select auto-scoring -Select alternate counts for multiple users -Enable or disable feedback sounds -Choose different feedback sounds -Enable background noise -Choose different types of noise -Track correct and incorrect responses -E-mail results at the end of the game