Reading TherAppy

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Developer: Tactus Therapy Solutions

Description:

1800+ Phrase & Sentence Level Reading Comprehension Tasks with the option of creating your own exercises!

**Try for FREE as part of Language TherAppy Lite or purchase in our 4-in-1 bundle: Language TherAppy **

This app gives adults with neurological impairment (stroke, brain injury, aphasia) and older children with special needs the practice they need in between reading words and reading stories. It’s a digital workbook of semantically organized reading comprehension tasks with the added ability for you to create your own exercises in each mode!

Goal Areas: Reading Comprehension, Attention, Problem Solving, Visual Processing, Reasoning
Can be used with: Aphasia, Alexia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, Cognitive-Communication Impairment, Brain Injury, Early Language Learners, Language Learning Disability, Autism, English as a Second Language Learners

Features:
➤4 modes with over 450 exercises each, for 1,800+ reading comprehension practice items!
1)Phrase Matching
2)Sentence Matching
3)Phrase Completion
4)Sentence Completion
➤Hundreds of clear full-color photographs selected by a Speech-Language Pathologist used in both matching modes
➤Carefully-crafted foils on each exercise challenge users to read carefully
➤Clean interface with symbol support allows for independent use
➤Automated scoring allows for easy data-tracking
➤Wrong answers are grayed out once selected
➤Forward and back buttons allow users to skip items and go back to discuss completed items or retry skipped exercises
➤Child-friendly mode removes references to adult themes and disables links to outside sites
➤Users see their answers paired with the stimulus for reinforcement of the correct answer
➤Turn any picture/word on or off
➤Limit answer choices to 2, 3, or 4
➤Results can be e-mailed in report-ready format so clients can keep their therapist informed of their progress and therapists can send results to themselves for charting later, using the copy-and-paste ready format to decrease documentation time

✻Please note: There is no sound with this app except for the correct/incorrect sounds as the focus is on reading, not auditory, comprehension

For more information, please head over to their webpage http://tactustherapy.com/apps/reading/

What’s New in Version 1.02

Limit answer choices to 2, 3, or all 4!
Turn any picture on or off in the app!
Minor bug fixes for Customization added in v1.01

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Specifications:

Category: Literacy reading5 Updated: 21 December, 2012
Version: 1.02
Language: English
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.