Lingraphica offers nearly a dozen free augmentative and alternative communication apps that are available for immediate download and use in your practice. They’re also an excellent tool for patients that are higher functioning who may need a simple app to facilitate communication periodically.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Apps
AAC Apps for Aphasia
SmallTalk Common Phrases
A series of speech exercise videos, each showing the tongue and lip movements necessary to produce common phrases such as greetings, conversational phrases, and aphasia-oriented phrases — for example, “I had a stroke.”
SmallTalk Aphasia – Female
A library of pictures and videos that you can tap to speak in a female voice. It comes with dozens of common words and phrases you can use in everyday situations like meeting someone for the first time, telephoning someone, ordering at a restaurant, communicating with healthcare providers, and much more.
SmallTalk Aphasia – Male
A library of pictures and videos you can tap that speak in a male voice. It comes with dozens of common words and phrases you can use in everyday situations like meeting someone for the first time, telephoning someone, ordering at a restaurant, communicating with healthcare providers, and much more.
AAC Apps for Acute Settings
SmallTalk Pain Scale
Provides a library of pictures you can tap that speak out loud. This includes pain descriptions and images from the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale, as well as icons representing human anatomy.
SmallTalk Intensive Care
A picture-based vocabulary of phrases that patients can use to communicate their needs and feelings to medical-care providers in the ICU. It includes phrases such as “I have chest pain” and “I want a doctor.”
SmallTalk Dysphagia
Words and phrases you need to communicate your swallowing needs. Contains 50 phrases that cover eating, meal assistance, diet, liquids, medications, and compensatory treatment techniques. It also contains four demonstration videos of treatment techniques commonly used for swallowing.
AAC Apps for Activities of Daily Living
SmallTalk Days, Months, Dates
A series of speech exercise videos, each showing the tongue and lip movements necessary to produce the days of the week, months of the year, and ordinal numbers 1st through 31st.
SmallTalk Letters, Colors, Numbers
A series of speech exercise videos, each showing the tongue and lip movements necessary to produce the 26 letters of the English alphabet, numbers 1–20, and primary colors.
SmallTalk Conversational Phrases
A library of pictures you can tap that speak out loud. This includes common words and phrases like greetings, responses, requests, and statements on well-being. It’s perfect for conversing with friends, relatives, and others.
SmallTalk Daily Activities
A library of pictures you can tap that speak out loud. This includes common words and phrases around communication, eating, dressing, grooming, living at home, leisure, and more.
SmallTalk Frases de Conversación
For your Spanish speaking clients. Contains common everyday words and phrases in Spanish.
Frases de Conversación proporciona una biblioteca de imágenes que puedes tocar que hablan en voz alta. Esto incluye palabras y frases comunes como saludos, respuestas, solicitudes y declaraciones sobre el bienestar. Es perfecto para conversar con amigos, familiares y otras personas.
Lingraphica puede ayudar
Lingraphica offers free one-on-one consultations for SLPs who have someone on caseload who might be a good fit for an AAC device but aren’t entirely sure where to start. Call us at 866-570-8775 or visit the link below to get started.