Conversation Therapy vs Empathy Pics Lite

Work more effectively toward your speech therapy goals. Help people who have had a stroke, live with autism, or have a speech or language impairment get talking with an app that sparks conversation. The best way to improve talking is by talking! - Get a tool that helps adults, teens, and children put therapy strategies into practice - Improve language, social skills, speech, and thinking while using this powerful speech therapy app - Carryover the lessons from speech therapy at home with an app that’s easy for everyone to use - Focus on what matters – stop racking your brain for fresh topics and let the app guide you - Take things in any direction with thousands of possible conversation starters - Create the right experience for each person with customizable settings - Talk one-on-one, host groups of up to 4 at a time, and track improvement with ease ** SEE HOW IT CAN HELP – download the Lite version for FREE! ** Coming up with fresh, attention-grabbing conversation starters every day is surprisingly hard, even for speech therapy professionals. Think of this app as your talk facilitator, taking the pressure and planning out of starting and maintaining dialogue while you monitor how your clients use their speech strategies. "This is the app that is going to pave the way for converting speech therapists to the digital age." - Ryan Knoblauch, SLP, The Speech Knob GETTING STARTED IS AS EASY AS 1, 2, 3 Target higher-level expressive language, pragmatic, problem-solving, speech, and cognitive-communication goals with open-ended conversation starters. Here’s how it works. 1) CHOOSE YOUR CATEGORIES. Tailor your experience with specific topics like Food or Health, or select all topics for free-flowing discussion that could go anywhere! You can always change the settings to see only age-appropriate categories for children, teens, or adults. 2) START THE CONVERSATION. Look at the picture, then touch any of the 10 buttons to see a question. The questions on the left are simpler (like “What is…?”) while the ones on the right are more complex (“How do you know…?”). Hear the question aloud, record your own audio, and score answers as you go. 3) USE YOUR STRATEGIES. While taking turns discussing the answers to the questions, use your word-finding strategies, smooth speech techniques, or other personalized therapy approaches to communicate more clearly. ALL DONE? E-mail an automatically generated summary of your results, along with any audio, or share the results to a PDF, file storage, printer, or copy/paste. GET EVERY FEATURE YOU NEED IN ONE EASY APP - 275+ vivid photos, with 10 questions per photo, for over 2,750 possible questions - 10 languages: English, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Zulu - 11 categories full of real-world topics including daily life, hobbies, current events, social issues, health concerns, and much more - Record audio at any time with just a tap - Perfect for treating language, cognitive-communication, pragmatic, and speech disorders - Great as stimulus material to work on fluency, articulation, eye contact, and word-finding strategies in spontaneous speech - No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed BETTER DISCUSSIONS MEAN BETTER PRACTICE. Inspire curiosity and creativity while motivating people to keep improving – DOWNLOAD IT NOW! Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? We offer a wide range to choose from. Find the right one for you at tactustherapy.com/find

This FREE trial version of Empathy Pics gives you a small sample of the content you’ll get in the FULL version so you can see how it works and try it out. Empathy Pics is a professional speech therapy app that targets the follows areas: 1) making social inferences  2) understanding the feelings and perspectives of others 3) verbal expression including talking about personal emotions 3) problem-solving e.g. deciding what to do in different situations 4) learning appropriate responses in social situations e.g. how to respond to good or bad news Empathy Pics is ideal for older children and teenagers with autism and cognitive-communication difficulties as well as adults with autism and brain injury. The Emotions & Situations activity contains over 60 scenarios that each contain five questions.  1) What do you see in the picture? 2) How do you think the person feels? 3) How would you feel if you were in this situation? 4) What would you do in this person's situation? 5) Have you ever been in a similar situation? Tell me about it Each question acts as a thinking prompt and encourages interaction between the user and the therapist, teacher or family member. Learners are encouraged to think deeply about the people in the photos, the situations they are in and how they might feel. The Showing Concern activity presents high-quality color photos and scenarios. The user is asked to think about what they might say to the other person to show interest or concern. Multiple choice answers are available. The app is a highly versatile resource that can be used in speech therapy sessions and in the classroom. It also serves as a handy homework resource. Empathy Pics will help learners to improve their ability to make social inferences, interpret other people’s feelings, express their own emotions and show concern or interest.  If you are looking for an easy-to-use app to spark interest in empathizing with others, look no further! Features: • 6 photo scenarios in lite version, over 100 in full version • Questions that prompt deep thinking and encourage social interaction • Results summary that can be emailed • Results tracking and in-built storage (activity 2) • No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed Are you looking for a different type of speech therapy app? Visit our website to view our full range for adults and children: http://www.aptus-slt.com/