iPad application and chat assist...
So I have the cursed iPad, but maybe not cursed....... I downloaded a application called chat assist..... And Dan has been diligently working with it....... I give him flash card words... Like 10 of them.... House, dog, cat, blue, red. Ect........ And he types the word on a key board attached to the iPad. As he types it says each letter as he types it and then it says the word as a whole..... So the word dog............ Dan types a d and the chat assist says " d" then the o , and the g .... Then when he hits enter it says dog........ So far he is enjoying the task.... What is interesting is watching him hunt all over for the letter and again let's use the example dog....... He is looking for the letter d. But he will be saying... F, f, f as he is looking for the d.... He does find and press the d... But it just shows the aphasia..... He knew what he wanted but the right letter or word just keeps coming out.... So much frustration.... But the nice thing about the chat assist , is it don't get tired of the same mundane exercise , as we care givers do and then those cues in our voice come through... The boredom, the frustration of the same over and over again... The chat assist has its same cheerful voice no matter what... Yes it is a computer generated voice , but in this case it is a nice voice to here, no accidental judgement, just the factual word " dog" ... D...o...g.............." Dog"
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