App Description

Train your brain to listen carefully with this professional speech therapy app you’re going to love! 3 fun exercises build language processing, attention, and working memory skills for adults and older children with communication and cognitive impairments.

Advanced Comprehension Therapy will help you find where comprehension breaks down, then help you build it back up with 3 activities targeting sentence-level listening and reading comprehension:

1) IDENTIFY the picture that matches the sentence, increasing in syntactic complexity.
2) BUILD a sentence by focusing on each word & how they all fit together.
3) FOLLOW directions of increasing difficulty in 1-, 2-, & 3-step commands.

Try one of each level in this free trial, then upgrade to get the full content. Take your understanding to the next level with Advanced Comprehension Therapy!

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“I love the whole concept of this app! Other apps are too easy or kiddish for my students. The foils are perfectly challenging, but there’s just enough help so nobody gets too frustrated. What a great tool!” -School SLP

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3 Trusted Activities:

1) IDENTIFY
Start by finding the picture that matches a sentence like “The boy is eating.”
Work up to finding “She is read a book by him” from closely related pictures.

* 12 levels of difficulty for understanding sentences with 730 unique trials
* Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension
* Includes those tricky pronouns (he/she/they), indirect objects (to her, to him), reversible sentences, & passives


2) BUILD
Arrange the words one-by-one to match the pictured sentence you hear. Start with 3 words and work up to 9.

* 12 sentence types in 730 unique trials
* Add up to 3 extra words for extra challenge
* Hear each word as you touch it


3) FOLLOW
Start with exercises like “Touch the flower.” Work up to brain-bending challenges like “Before you touch the large orange striped circle, touch the small green solid square.”

* 16 levels of difficulty for following directions
* Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension
* Includes basic, temporal, & conditional commands in a hierarchy of 1-, 2-, & 3-step directions


In All Activities:

* Thousands of unique stimuli with hundreds of photos
* Use hints when you get stuck - always finish successfully
* E-mail detailed reports to track progress
* On-screen recording available with e-mailed audio files
* Repeat at any time, or repeat slowly for easier understanding

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Who is Advanced Comprehension Therapy For?

* Speech-Language Pathologists & Therapists
* Adults with Aphasia (mild or moderate severity)
* Stroke & TBI Survivors
* Children with Autism or Language Learning Difficulties
* Anyone who has mastered the single words in Comprehension Therapy or Language Therapy 4-in-1 & wants to take their therapy to the next level!

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Which Skills Does This App Target?

* Auditory Comprehension (listening)
* Reading Comprehension
* Attention to Detail
* Working Memory (holding information)
* Nouns & Pronouns (he/she/it/they)
* Adjectives (colors, size, shading)
* Syntactic Processing (understanding grammar)
* Active & Passive Voice
* Temporal Concepts (before/after)
* Conditional Directions (if/then)
* Problem Solving (using hint/repeat or fixing errors)

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You can trust that this Tactus Therapy app, like all our other therapy apps, offers respectful therapeutic activities for adults with acquired neurogenic communication disorders and older children. No in-app purchases, no outside advertisements, no subscriptions, and no collection of any personal information. We value your privacy.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • December 03, 2016 Initial release