Naming TherAppy – 10 Uses & Giveaway

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It would be great if this was made available on computer.

Congratulations to the winners! Thanks to everyone who entered. The Advance staff has picked 3 names at random: Vicki, Stacy, and Susan will all receive codes via email.

I have been using IPAD apps. with my patients for approximately a year now.  They have been a great addition to therapy.  I have used the Naming TherAppy Lite with my patients who have had a stroke, TBI, dementia, or cognitive issues. I have also recommended it to my families who have IPADs.  I think this would be a great app. to have for my patients.  It provides a level of independence to their therapy--which so many of my patients feel as though they have lost following their injury.

I would give this app to our speech language pathologist.  We have just started using the iPad in speech therapy this year and we are always on the lookout for apps to help our students with special needs.  Our building is a 3-5 building, but our speech pathlogist also works with students in grades 6-8 at another building.  I know this app would be well used!  Thanks for this opportunity!

My student and I were looking at this App this week and saying what a wonderful tool it would be for our residents with aphasia. We have been surprised how well our residents have responded to using the iPad! Would love to be one of those moving away from outdated materials!

I would use this app to work with my Home Care patients.  It would be a great single app to use in training the family and CGs for cuing strategies to build communication.  The app can continue to be used in outpatient therapy (we work closely with outpatient to make the transition seamless).

I love the versatility of the app as described and the ability to compare scores to see marked improvement!

I would definitely use this with my adult tbi and geriatric clients with word finding difficulties. I can get rid of my box of outdated cards.

I would use this with so many patients; I have tried the trials of several TherAppy apps and think they stand head and shoulders above anything else currently available on the market for adults. I would love to own this app!

I would use it for my acute care aphasic population.  The I-pad apps are great there because they are very portable.

Looks like a great app!  Would be nice to have for our adult population at our hospital!

Although this is clearly designed for adults, my first thought for this app is to use it in my K-2 setting, for children with word-finding difficulties. This impairment has become much more prevalent in recent years in my setting. However, I could use it with my more profound students, as a means of teaching basic nouns/verbs (interested in finding out how you determined order of frequency?). For children with grammar/syntax needs, the action-only setting would work well for verb tenses. Plus, for other children, I could pick targets based on syllables! Also love that I can keep data on the iPad itself.

I would use this with my home care patients.  I would be great to not have to carry around a box of cards for when I am working on naming!

    At our public school we have several students who are educationally autistic, ranging in age from 3-16 years, and they respond in a variety of modes.  Some need and respond to augmentative devices and technology-based material in order to meet their full potential in communication.

    We also have students who are diagnosed with traumatic brain injury who respond well to visual stimuli and technology.  Visually impaired, orthopedically impaired, intellectually disabled, emotionally disturbed, as well as many other language-impaired and other health impaired students could benefit from the varied approaches to communication in this app.   From the samples provided the app appears not to “talk down” to older students by appearing to be for the very young.  That’s a very good thing for our older students.

My caseload is very diverse and my school does not have any money to spend on materials, so something like this is great to work on different needs with students.  It seems so universal.  I am about to start working with a student that has apraxia again, so I need materials in this area.  

I would use the apps with several students on my caseload.  This year due to budget cuts we were not given money to materials and I know my students with CAS would so benefit.

I would use this app in all settings that I service (Rehab, Home Health, and school settings) to continue to assist clients with my iPad.  i have many TBI and apraxia patients that would benefit from this resource.

I would utilize this app for my home health Lang and cog pts.  From matching the pics to items in their home, of course naming, sent formulation, object description, writing, responsive naming, and conversation.  Much easier to have everything together on one ipad, than to haul tons of materials from house to house......

I work in a special ed.school with language based disabilities. I have an iPad where this would be an excellent tool. Many of my students have word retrieval & naming challenges. I would love to have this to help them They are so responsive to the iPad!!!

I would use it to develop exercises for home practice for aphasic and apraxic patients.  The feature  to control syllable length of the word for apraxic patients is useful.  The cuing hierarchy is helpful, as well.

I would use this app with my brain injured and hearing impaired kids.  This app is wonderful!  You have covered all the areas of language that I need to work on!  Please draw my name!!  :)

Carolyn, SLP

I would love to use this app with my students who exhibit word retrieval difficulties, as well as those with language/vocabulary delays. I love how the app targets so many different skills and strategies, and can grow with the students/patients as they develop their skills.

As a school based therapist, this app sounds like it would be a great universal tool to add to my toolkit.  I often borrow corners in resource rooms around the building to work with students.  Using the iPad and apps travels easily and is engaging for so many students.  I could see using this app with several students, one who struggles with word finding, another who is practicing giving detailed descriptions, and several more who have apraxia.  I love the screening idea.

I would use these in all sorts of ways! Love the idea of RET as an app. I have several clients  with aphasia and AOS who would benefit from these apps. Circumlocution would be fabulous to teach and practice SFA.

Sounds like you can incorporate this into a language and speech group.  Love time-savers!

I would use this APP as a screening device as well as to work with word retrieval difficulties and language therapy for students with autism and language difficulties.

I like apps with more than one use/purpose. Versatility is important especially when I am spending my money, not the schools for apps on my ipad.

I work in a wonderful rural school in Upstate SC. I try to be creative when buying therapy materials that can be used many ways. My speech friends love iPad apps!

I would like to have the use for both screening, reinforcement with my older student population. On late, this APP would be ideal for me to work, reinforce and expand with my Dad, who has been experiencing depression, dementia in part because he has COPD, however largely after the death of my Mom, they were married for 62 years, and begin dating at the ages of 13

I would use the cued naming and circumlocution features to help teachers recognize how THEY can assist students with word retrieval difficulties.  I would also use the app to help students recognize what cues work for them and how to advocate for themselves with their teachers and other adults (parents, group leaders, coaches, etc.).  I would also use the flashcards as a readymade set for yes/no questions to demonstrate to staff when teaching the sign language signs for yes/no or location of yes/no in a communication device.

I am most excited to try your apps with a new 46 year old client who has a diagnosis of a frontal lobe disorder, although he presents as having autism with severe apraxia. He would like to improve his speech and is motivated to do so. I have been searching for apps that he can use during and outside of therapy. Your apps seem like they may work well for the work we are doing.

I have a 52 YOM with multiple CVAs as a result of previously undiagnosed lung CA who now has moderate-severe expressive aphasia who improves significantly with cues to utilize compensatory strategies. He would love this!

I have several students that have limited vocabulary skills. This would be something that can be useful for them.

This app would be wonderful to use with my young adult students with multiple communication disabilities in a school setting!  I would be grateful for the opportunity!!! School budgets are mighty slim and the iPad and all the apps I use with my students, I purchase on my own. I'd be more than happy to give you feedback once I used the app.

Thanks for your consideration!

This would be amazing to use with my stroke and dementia patients.  they would get the visual cues and be able to stimulate their cognition even when the ST is not doing therapy.  They would feel like they are in the now generation.

This app would be a great tool for me to use with my students in the school setting and my private clients who I see in their homes. The pictures look great and I like that they are real photos! I find that many of my students/clients who have cognitive delays or autism respond best to real photos. I like that you can incorporate many different goals within your app. Great work! I would love a copy!

This app would be great to use with my students who are working on naming, asking & answering wh questions, and vocabulary.

This app offers a great way to teach the skills my patients usually have difficulty with. I work in various pediatric clinics as a consultant and travel to province on weekends for in-patients in several hospitals and clinic-based clients.  I am also starting  Speech teleservice with a bilingual kid.  With my set-up, it's really a challenge to have variety of therapy materials so as to keep our session fun and learning. I find Naming TherAppy really interesting based on its review, cause not only that it can be brought from one place to another but it can also be used both for adults and kids. I would also love to use this in giving homeworks to them.

I work in a school district with very limited funding for special education. I purchased an iPad with my personal money and use it with students as often as I can. This app would greatly improve my screening of students across all of my schools I service.

I have several children with limited vocabulary skills.  I like the built in cues and I thought using this for yes/no questions was a really good idea.

I would love to use this with my students with learning disabilities as a high school as well as in an acute care facility where I work PRN.

I think this app would be great for my mild CI students.  Naming and verbs with my younger student 1st and 2nd grade and the circumlocution part would be wonderful for my older 3-5th grade.  It is almost like a graphic organizer for writing papers!  I would use it to help the students add important information into their sentences to tell about objects, pictures or topics of discussion.  This looks like a fantastic app. I also do home care with aphasics and I could use it in both of my job settings!

This app is great for working with people with aphasia. It is a great way to determine which prompts are most beneficial for each individual.

This would be a great app for the aphasia and younger students with expressive language to develop their expressive skills.

My early childhood work involves children on the autism spectrum, and an app such as this would help me tap into the vocabulary the children have, but cannot express! THE iPad is such a motivating tool for these children that it has unlocked so many areas of language that we as outsiders were unaware the children were capable of!

I have a few students who would benefit from an app like this.  One I highly suspect has childhood apraxia of speech.  Besides, my kids love anything on my iPad because they are always ask "are we going to do the iPad?"  Thank you for this opportunity.

I have several students that have word retrevial provblems, I also have a lot of ELL students that need to work on basic language skills.

Being a homecare therapist, I love to us my Apps for therapy as they are easier to "lug" around than a bunch of books. I have a number of patient's who have I Pads who I would love to introduce this to and allow them to try before they purchase it on their own. I also run an Aphasia Communication Group for those living with chronic aphasia. Would love to introduce them to more technology.

I have a young stroke survivor who just obtained an iphone (finally!!) and I would love to incorporate this into our therapy.  It would be great to eventually have him use the app to continue his therapy at home.

I am a speech pathologist from South Africa and work in the government sector at a hospital . The majority of patients I work with are unemployed and below the poverty line. There are no funds for iPads or apps and I end up using my own iPad and salary to supplement my resources. If I could add this to my limited apps I would enhance my quality of therapy which could improve the outcome of my patients language and speech goals.

I have any number of patients that cycle through needing word retrieval assistance...from post CVAs to mid dementia to TBI. My only hope is that they can see the pics well enough on the itouch as I don't have an iPad...yet (fingers crossed).

I just picked up a patient with expressive aphasia.  This would be great for her!

Will use with a patient with anomic aphasia.  Great time it would be to win.  Will be introducing to him this week.  Thanks for your help.

I have a TBI student I would use this with.

I would use this app with adults with developmental disabilities- so nice that the pictures are basic but not childish!

I would use this with a variety of patients in our in-patient rehab facility, as well are share it with our out patient therapists. We just got an ipad and are excited to get apps that look like they would serve a variety of communication disorders. What I like about the examples shown is that it doesn't look juvenile, as so many of our printed materials can seem to patients. Anomia, apraxia, reading, attention... it could apply to so many!

I would use it exactly as you recommend in your wonderful description, and I'd post about it in my own blog :-)  I especially like the cued naming and circumlocution suggestions.

I have had several apraxic pts I would have loved to use this with. I imagine it would work with naming tasks in combination with AAC as well.

I work with a variety of patients with a variety of diagnoses. Most of them have some form of TBI or dementia. They all get so frustrated when they lose a word within their mind. I think naming therapy would be a really great tool to try and "train" their minds on how to access semantic and linguistic networks associated with words!

I would use the cueing hierarchy in order to aid in naming of familiar objects when conducting screenings and therapy sessions with stroke/TBI/aphasia patients/clients.