Cuespeak

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.

My husband has apraxia and aphasia after suffering a major stroke. This programme is a core part of his speech and language therapy and it is really helping him to regain his ability to speak. It has been set up for him by his speech therapist and we use it everyday.

I was recommended this app by another SLT. Since then I have not looked back. Jon Hunt the SLT mastermind behind this app has created such an amazing product with such incredible flexibility and enables individualisation for each client. Try it - you honestly won’t be disappointed as an SLT. Encourage your clients to buy but you will need to learn to customise and then send exercise sessions that work at YOUR client level.

I find the whole app frustrating to use it’s got too much going on and the sentences are all broken up. I don’t like how it rotates. I even showed it to my friend who’s an SLT and they said they don’t like it either. It doesn’t seem age appropriate quiet babyish actually and insulting. And it’s quiet hard to navigate. Even my gran who’s in her 90s would struggle to use this app.

Sticking on word “the” Martin James

This is a really excellent resource and makes a very significant positive contribution to therapy for people living with post-stroke aphasia. It has been comprehensively and thoughtfully developed with an eye to both current theories in aphasia rehabilitation and what is important for everyday communication. I can’t recommend it enough!

This app is just what we have been looking for to improve aphasia and limited speech. It’s easy to set up and self explanatory. Worth checking it out but I totally recommend this *****

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

After a year of being recommended lots of apps for aphasia we found Cuespeak and what a great app it is. Now my husband uses it every day and still finds it helpful. This week an update did not load on our old ipad but after contacting the app makers it was resolved and I received fantastic customer service. Thank you very much, anything that helps after a stroke is always good. Julia Osborne

A highly comprehensive Aphasia Therapy App that can also be used for some aspects of Apraxia therapy. The App is highly practical but based on sound theoretical principles.