Taking a screenshot is easy using an iPad or iPhone - just press the home button and the power button at the same time. You'll hear a camera shutter sound and see a white flash, and the image on the screen will appear as a picture in your Photos app. This can be done any time you wish to capture the scene on the screen. Another Advance blog post ...

TinyTap is an unlikely candidate for my blog, falling short on two criteria I look for in good adult therapy apps - it requires customization before it will work (a no-no for busy clinicians with caseload pressures), and it is designed for preschool kids with cutesy animations and sounds. These two flaws notwithstanding, this is a very useful app ...

Last week I told you about free app-ternatives to replace recorders, metronomes, dice, camcorders, and magnifying glasses. Here are five more free tools for your Smartphone or tablet to replace everyday speech therapy equipment.  Instead of: Clicker/Counter Try: Tap2Count or Aecount No matter what you're tallying - dysfluencies, ...

It can often be a struggle to assess and treat the cognition of a client with severe aphasia or other communication impairment. An app I have found especially useful in this area is called MatrixMatch 2. It used to be called Matrix Game, but a recent update changed the name in addition to adding three new levels. Similar to the ...

I often like to think outside of the box and look at apps that aren't specifically designed for speech therapy. Photo Dice is one of these apps. This app is fairly simply. You are given a die with a blank slate in which are you able to put picture of your choosing on each side. Each die you make is of course limited to six pictures but you can ...