Of all the challenges faced by those with traumatic brain injuries, simple communication challenges can create frustration every day. MyTalkTools Mobile and Workspace are free tools that help.
MyTalkTools Mobile and Workspace are a set of communication tools for families and family members living with TBI or ABI. Our tools allow for communication that is completely customizable, helping users communicate with pictures, sounds and videos. MyTalkTools lets you use your own personal pictures and voices to express messages, needs and desires - easy for family members to program, and easy for your loved ones to use.
For some, communicating can be so frustrating that it's easier to stop trying. MyTalkTools lets you use personalized images, videos and familiar voices to foster engagement - start with simple, obvious needs depicted with real photos for early successes, use symbols for more general needs, and include short videos of distant loved ones to stay connected. MyTalkTools can be a simple tool for basic needs, or grow into a language development tool as your loved one's capabilities and potential grow - add a phrase bar to build sentences or type messages. For anyone with fine-motor challenges, it works with Bluetooth switches and row/column or individual-cell scanning, plus audible scanning for those with visual impairments.
MyTalkTools offers many options, and everything - the full mobile apps and Workspace - is free.
Get MyTalkTools Mobile - the full version, not a limited edition - from the App Store or Google Play.
Watch the tutorial videos, create your user name, and download the "Adult" sample content to begin customizing.
You and other family members also get free access to Workspace, our web-based board-building tool, for remote programming.
I am testing MyTalk... It is so amazing! I am an RN with a daughter who had a TBI. I am very involved in the TBI community and developed a board this week for a young man who is totally blind due to his TBI, and also lost his speech.
I am a speech therapist in a day centre for people with brain injury (trauma or stroke), and work especially with patients suffering from aphasia. I use MyTalk on my personal iPhone and iPad, first with a patient suffering from global aphasia. We found it very useful and quite flexible, and would like to use it for other patients.
Free on iOS, Android and the web - no credit card required.
