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title: Senfill
description: "## Purpose The main purpose of the **Senfill** module is to develop **verb retrieval** in the context of **answering questions**. The aim is to **answer**the question **verbally**. There are various types of **help** available to **answer** the question, and various…"
url: "https://cuespeak.com/docs/senfill/"
updated: "2022-09-01"
category: Therapy Modules
---

# Senfill

## Purpose

The main purpose of the **Senfill** module is to develop **verb retrieval** in the context of **answering questions**. The aim is to **answer**the question **verbally**. There are various types of **help** available to **answer** the question, and various ways you can **change the demands** of the task by **hiding** or **showing** different elements of the screen contents.

![](https://cuespeak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SF-5-600x450.jpeg)
Senfill format SF1: all elements shown

## Help for understanding the question

You can hear the question again. There are two ways to do this:

- Tap the **blue button** on the toolbar to hear the **whole question** again
- Tap each of the **blue question TABs** (text-audio boxes) to hear the question broken down into **chunks**.

You can also **reduce the speech rate** in the main **app settings**.

If the user selects the **wrong answer**, they will hear the **resulting sentence**, and receive **spoken feedback** on any errors, which can further help to understand the question.

## Help for answering the question

If the user is **unable** to answer the question verbally, there are three types of **help** available:

- Select the answer from a written **multiple choice** option.
- See and hear a **written sentence** constraining onto the verb, broken down into **chunks**
- Watch a **video** showing the verb being **spoken**

If using the **multiple choice** option, the user will **hear the resulting sentence** and can then try and **judge** whether they've chosen correctly. Once they're happy with their choice, they can **tap the check button** to **verify** it.

## Configuring the format

You can **hide** or **show** any element of the screen contents to **change the demands** of the task.

To hide the **picture**, go into **exercise settings**, tap **format**and select format **SF3**, or turn off "show top picture from outset". This increases the demand on **understanding** the question.

![](https://cuespeak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SF-3-600x450.jpeg)
Senfill format SF3: picture hidden

To hide the **written question**, tap **format** and select format **SF1a**, or turn off "show question TABs from outset". This increases the demand on **auditory comprehension**, but can also help to **reduce visual distractions**.

![](https://cuespeak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SF-6-600x450.jpeg)
Format SF1a: hides written question

To hide the written **multiple choice**, select format **SF2**, or turn off "show multiple choice questions from outset". This will increase the demand on **word-finding**.

![](https://cuespeak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SF-2-600x450.jpeg)
Format SF2: hides written multiple choice

To hide the orange **response TABs**, select fromat **SF4** or turn off "show response TABs from outset". Again this can help to reduce visual distractions, but removes the option to hear the spoken answer.

![](https://cuespeak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SF-4-600x450.jpeg)
Format SF4: response TABs hidden

You can also **disable** the **audio question**, leaving just a **written question** (format **SF1w**). This places more demand on **reading comprehension**.

You can hide **multiple elements**, including **all**, leaving just a **spoken question**.

## Configuring the content

You can choose to work only on **intransitive verbs** by going into **exercise settings**, tapping **format**and selecting **verb: 1 argument**. The other options are **transitive** (2 argument) verbs, **ditransitive** (3 arguments) and a small number of **verb phrases**.

![](https://cuespeak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SF-1-600x450.jpeg)

If you're working with someone for whom **longer** or more **complex** words are too **challenging** to say, you might want to **limit** the number of **speech sounds** (phonemes) in the target words. To do this, tap **number of phonemes**. Select **all** the numbers you want to work on. You can also select words according to their **initial**and**final sounds**, or according to their **frequency** in the language.

## How to help someone using Senfill

If you're **helping** someone using Senfill, whether face to face or via video call, you might find that it helps if you **repeat the question** yourself, reading **one** **question TAB** at a time with generous **pauses** in between them.

If the person is unable to **say** the answer, try the following:

- **repeat** the contents of the orange "**response TABs**", delivering them more **slowly**, with more **emphasis**, and providing the **first sound** of the answer
- accompany any such cue with a **gesture/mime** where this could provide extra semantic information - for example, in the question "If you want to open a fridge door, what do you have to do?" you could synchronise a closure cue and phonemic cue with a **gesture of pulling** ("To open a fridge door, you have to /p/....." + gesture of pulling).