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What is COVID-19? An Aphasia-Friendly Resource about Coronavirus

A FREE guide to help explain the pandemic with visual supports and clear, simple language.

Show Apps on Video Calls – a Telepractice Resource for Therapists

A FREE guide & video on how to mirror your tablet screen to use apps in therapy remotely.

50 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Loved One with Aphasia

A FREE list to learn about all the ways you can help a stroke survivor struggling to communicate.

Have You Tried…? A Guide to 15 Evidence-Based Aphasia Treatments for Expression

A FREE quick guide that will help you consider all your therapy options to help your patients talk.

Setting Goals in Aphasia Therapy

A FREE 11-page e-book to help SLPs set better goals for adults with communication disabilities .

“How To” Article Summaries

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How to ACRT handout preview
How To: Anagram, Copy, & Recall Treatment (ACRT)
How To ARCS Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization preview
How To: Attentive Reading and Constrained Summarization (ARCS)
How To CPT communication partner training preview
How To: Communication Partner Training (CPT)
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How To: Cueing Hierarchy
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How To: Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT)
How To MOR Multiple Oral Re Reading preview
How To: Multiple Oral Re-Reading (MOR)
How To Phonological Components Analysis PCA handout preview
How To: Phonological Components Analysis (PCA)
How To Phonological Treatment preview
How To: Phonological Treatment for Writing
How to do Response Elaboration Training handout preview
How To: Response Elaboration Training (RET)
How To: Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) for Anomia
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How To: Spaced Retrieval Training (SRT)
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How To: Verb Network Strengthening Training (VNeST)
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How To: Visual Scanning Treatment (VST)
How To: Word-Finding Strategies

App User Guides and Tips

Advanced Language User Guide preview
Advanced Language Therapy

(includes Advanced Comprehension, Advanced Naming, Advanced Reading, & Advanced Writing Therapy)

Apraxia User Guide Tips preview
Apraxia Therapy
AlphaTopics User Guide Tips preview
AlphaTopics – AAC
Category User Guide Tips preview
Category Therapy
Conversation User Guide Tips preview
Conversation Therapy
Dysphagia User Guide Tips preview
Dysphagia Therapy
Language Therapy user guide handout preview
Language Therapy

(includes Comprehension, Naming, Reading, & Writing Therapy)

Number User Guide preview
Number Therapy
Spaced Retrieval User Guide Tips preview
Spaced Retrieval Therapy
VAT User Guide Tips
Visual Attention Therapy

“What Is” Article Summaries

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What Is: a Cognitive-Communication Disorder?
What is Aphasia preview
What Is: Aphasia?
What is PPA preview
What is: Primary Progressive Aphasia?
What is Global Aphasia handout preview
What is: Global Aphasia?
What is Broca's aphasia handout preview
What is: Broca’s Aphasia?
What is Fluent Aphasia handout preview
What is: Fluent Aphasia?
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What is: Apraxia of Speech?

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What is: Left Neglect?

“Using apps to treat…” Article Summaries

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Using Apps to Treat Severe Aphasia
Using Apps to Treat Talking
Using Apps to Treat Listening handout preview
Using Apps to Treat Listening

Articles with Free Downloads

9 Ways to Make Speech Therapy Homework Work for You

 6 min read

The Truth about the Plateau in Stroke Recovery

 6 min read

10 Creative Naming Therapy Activities for Aphasia

 7 min read

10 Ways AAC Can Help Improve Slurred Speech in Dysarthria

 8 min read

27 Dysphagia Myths – Busted!

 11 min read

10 Aphasia Myths Busted

 14 min read

Talk the Talk: 5 Things You Need to Know when Speaking with a Person with Aphasia

 5 min read

Past Favorites

These downloads still contain a lot of useful information, but parts of them might now be out-of-date.

A List of the Best Speech Therapy Apps for Adults

Our FREE 11-page list of the best 170 apps for adult or medical speech therapy.

Getting Started with Apps in Speech Therapy

A FREE download with the essentials for starting with apps.