Cuespeak 12+

Genius!

I wish I had had this technology 20 years ago! It would have saved days and days of preparation, and I would have reached the answers I wanted a lot sooner!
Cuespeak allows me to support people with aphasia in a way that combines functionality alongside the theoretical underpinning of what we know about psycholinguistic processing. I am confident to use it knowing that its creator has an understanding of aphasia that is glaringly absent in other apps I have tried to use.
The configurations of activities to target different areas (semantics, phonology, orthography), change levels of processing required, and vary the prompts, are endless, it is worth taking the time to use the settings available -if I can anyone can.
Amazingly, the app updates with current affairs and topical themes which makes it engaging and relevant. I use it with clients with additional cognitive difficulties too as it provides structure to enable people to demonstrate competence rather than failure. It is intuitive for assessment, therapy, teletherapy, practice, teaching students and encouraging clients to ‘own’ their therapy - love it love it! Susie Hayden Specialist Aphasia SLT

Developer Response ,

Super-delighted that you’re finding Cuespeak useful, thank you so much for this wonderful feedback!

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Cuespeak has become the “go to” app in our team. The contents and design clearly shows the developer understands aphasia therapy and what people with aphasia and their therapists want.
Crucially, the material is interesting and relevant, and a bonus is the addition of some humour.

The tasks address a wide range of language and speech processing including semantic judgement, phonological access, orthographic access, sentence construction and speech production. There is plenty of “within task support” if extra cues are required and this contributes to the product resembling therapist delivered therapy. The variety of tasks, including activities that other apps do not address, makes it versatile to use with many patients. The quantity of practice items within each task is impressive and means that boredom is avoided, and a large quantity of practice is easily achieved.

The app is easy to use, works smoothly and is visually attractive. Optional video tutorials areprovided for each task and patients working independently might use these.

The app deserves 5 stars. Voluntary subscriptions to this not-for-profit venture will allow the addition of more content giving more people more quality aphasia therapy.

Developer Response ,

That's great news that your team are finding Cuespeak useful, thank you for the feedback!. There are lots of exciting new features on the way, so please let us know what you think!

Fantastic resource for people with aphasia and their clinicians

As a SLT with over 20 years’ NHS experience, this app has been an absolute game changer for me.

The ability to personalise exercises quickly, the responsiveness from the developers in providing engaging and up to date content, and the ease of use for me and my clients has completely transformed my clinical practice. There is so much content in the app, it means that clients can benefit from many many months of regular (often daily) use as the app grows with them. The ability to change exercises remotely is fantastic.

My clients are motivated to practise in between sessions, giving them the high dose and intensity of therapy that is so beneficial ~ using this app to work on various aspects of aphasia has allowed me to see the most effective response to therapy in my career & freed up time to work more closely with clients and their families.

This app should be a required purchase by NHS teams working with people with aphasia in order to improve access to high quality, evidence-based, cost-effective therapy.