Access intensive therapy at home
Latest research shows that speech therapy for aphasia is most effective when it is carried out intensively and when it’s personally tailored to your needs. Find out how Cuespeak can help.
what is aphasia?
You know what you want to say, but you just can’t say it. But what causes aphasia?
What is apraxia of speech?
With apraxia, you have the sound of the word in your head but the messages from the brain to the speech muscles get muddled.
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Read the comprehensive documentation to really get the best out of your therapy time
As much speech therapy as you want, when you want it
Stroke or brain injury can have a major impact on your ability to communicate through speaking, writing, reading and understanding. This can be devastating for everyone, including family and friends.
Fortunately, therapy can help.
Research has shown that speech therapy for aphasia is most effective when it is carried out intensively, 4-5 times a week. It’s also most effective when it’s personally tailored to your needs.
But even if you’re lucky enough to be receiving speech therapy, it’s unusual to be able to access this much face-to-face therapy. Cuespeak provides a tool to enable you to access unlimited amounts of therapy designed by specialist Speech and Language Therapists and configurable very precisely to your own needs.
You can even make personalised exercises to work on your own vocabulary, such as names of family, friends and significant places.
Anyone with reasonable vision and hearing can use Cuespeak. The touchscreen interface is highly intuitive, and no experience of computers is necessary. Cuespeak is designed to cater for the needs of everyone, even those with severe communication difficulties.
Ideally Cuespeak should be configured by an experienced Speech-Language professional, but there is a lot of help available within the app to select appropriate exercises if you do not have professional support. Find out more
You will need an Apple iPad or iPhone running iOS 15 or greater. A WiFi internet connection is highly recommended.
– Cuespeak contains all therapy modules “under one roof”, reducing the need for complex navigation.
– Cuespeak moves beyond dry “picture naming” activities to a more dynamic “question and answer” approach that has more in common with everyday interactive language use.
– Cuespeak is constantly updated with fresh material, including material about current world events, keeping the therapy experience in the here and now.
– Cuespeak is by far the most configurable app available, allowing the content to be adjusted very specifically to individual need.
– Cuespeak allows you to create your own personalised exercises to work on material of personal relevance such as names of family, friends and significant places.
You’ll get the most out of Cuespeak if it’s been configured correctly to your particular needs, ideally with the expertise of an experienced speech-language professional. However, we recognise that not everyone can access such help. We have therefore included help within the app to allow non-professionals to select approriate exercises as well as create personalised ones. If you intend to use Cuespeak without professional support, we highly recommend reading the user manual.
Yes, there is an increasing body of evidence that apps can contribute very significantly to the process of recovery from acquired speech and language difficulties.
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Sorry, Cuespeak only runs on Apple devices for now.
Explore the interface
What's it like to use?
Get to know Cuespeak – hover over the hotspots to explore
A large image can be shown to help contextualise the question
The question can be seen, heard or hidden - each demanding different modalities from the user
Select from the range of possible answers
Keeps track of your progress. See your entire history charted over time.
The toolbar buttons support you in eliciting the correct answer
Each exercise has a helpful video explaining how it works
Questions & Answers places word finding in a conversational context
See any word spoken and broken down
Practice anything you want. Enter your own script
Use context prompts to help understand what is required
Enter as many scripts as you need
Turns the reading task into a supported writing task
Each exercise has a helpful video explaining how it works
Scripts allows you to work on your own personal stories
Dictate, copy/paste or type your own text, then hit 'Generate script'
Add an image and a context prompt
Your text is used to automatically generate the exercise
Touch and hold a word to override the defaults chosen for you
Creating your own Script is incredibly fast and easy
Every word has a corresponding video showing the correct articulation
Control the speed and volume of the video
Articulation videos are broken down into words, syllables and phonemes
Record and play back your own attempt at the target word
Watch videos showing the articulation of every target word
Try to select the correct answer from a range of responses
Try to answer the 'WH' question - Who, What, Where, When & How
Your selection will play back within a sentence
Verify you have correctly answered the question
Focus on 'WH' question with Perspectives
See and hear a video of the word
See how the word is spelt
Practice writing the word yourself
Practice family names and other words with Wordfinder
View a large image of the topic to be discussed
See and hear some questions to get the conversation started
Talking Points is a great way to stimulate conversations with individuals or larger groups
See and/or hear the stimulus question
Try to arrange the words in the correct order
Verify your answer
Sentence Sorter is a great sentence sequencing task
See stimulus images or listen to a stimulus question
Order each sound tile. Tapping the tiles will produce its sound
Verify your answer
Soundspell is a great sound sequencing task
Match this stimulus to the correct response. Choose from written word, spoken word, picture, articulation video or sound effects
Choose the correctly matching response. This can be a written word, spoken word, picture or first letter
Match anything to anything - words, pictures, videos or sounds to words, pictures or first letters
See and/or hear the stimulus prompt
Choose any response to practice
Hear your selected response in a phrase. Try to repeat the sentence
Practice useful everyday phrases with Asking & Offering
Configure the content of an exercise with an extensive range of options
For example, focus on target words all beginning with the 'm' sound
Tap the '?' icon to see detailed help on each option