For SLPs & therapists
Honest apps for the time between your sessions.
Practice support that respects the boundary: whole-word recognition that never pretends to be phoneme scoring, a talker that never replaces an AAC evaluation, and self-report summaries clients choose to bring you.
Limits first
We’ll tell you what our apps can’t do before what they can.
You spend your week around tools that overclaim. So, first: nothing we make assesses, diagnoses, treats, or replaces you. SpeechSeed cannot score an individual speech sound. Folio is not an AAC evaluation. A journal export is not a clinical record. Everything below is practice support for the time between your sessions — the lane where an app can honestly live.
Home practice · SpeechSeed
The claim-integrity pitch
SpeechSeed recognises whole words with Apple’s on-device speech recognition — never phonemes, never a pronunciation score. Uncertain attempts are banked and handed to the grown-up’s ear (Try again / Almost / Got it); silence never passes. The articulation ladder — sound, syllables, words, phrases, sentences — is reliability-gated, so home practice stays at the level you set.
Families can bring you a one-page weekly PDF: days practised, words attempted, per-sound accuracy from real verdicts only. The in-app self-check lists signs an assessment is worth a call — it routes families to you. In our own voice, on every surface: not a replacement for therapy.
Literate clients · Folio AAC
Speed and dignity, not language scaffolding
Folio is a text-based talker for clients who read and type — autistic teens and adults, ALS and MND, apraxia, aphasia after stroke. The detail worth checking: switch access with row-by-row scanning (auto or step, adjustable speed, spoken highlights, external switch or tap-anywhere), a fixed emergency button, and a privacy split stated exactly — Conversation Mode fully on-device, School Mode locking it there. It complements a clinical AAC evaluation; it never substitutes for one.
Adult clients · AuDHD Loop
A self-report summary the client chooses to bring
For OTs, psychologists, and therapists working with AuDHD adults: Loop is a private self-regulation journal — stims logged without shame, sensory events captured in the moment, tasks batched by energy. Its Pro weekly digest export is a self-report summary the client may choose to bring to a session — positioned exactly like SpeechSeed’s PDF, and never as oversight. It is a personal wellness and journaling tool, not a diagnostic device, treatment plan, or medical record.
For TVIs · PicExplainer
The long tail behind the tactile queue
Teachers of students with visual impairments: PicExplainer explains photographed textbook figures aloud, VoiceOver-first, flags what it can’t read, exports Braille and tactile sheets, and plays charts as audio graphs. It complements tactile graphics — never replaces them — and covers the figures the production queue never reaches. School-wide licensing details live on the PicExplainer page.
Try it with one client this week
The free tiers are genuinely usable. That’s the demo.
No accounts to create; App Privacy labels you can quote to a compliance officer — SpeechSeed, PicExplainer and AuDHD Loop carry Apple’s “Data Not Collected” label, and Folio’s reads “Data Not Linked to You” (a device identifier), with School Mode locking it on-device; and nothing to un-install awkwardly if it doesn’t fit. Pick one client, try one app for one week, and judge it by your own clinical eye. Questions to a person: robin@kindabilities.com.
What we will never claim
No efficacy numbers. No “clinically proven.” No continuing-education credits — ASHA CEUs require registered providers, and we are not one. No implied endorsements from you or anyone else. If you ever catch our copy drifting from this, tell us and we’ll fix the copy, not the promise.
Useful spokes for families you work with: when to talk to an SLP · speech-sound age chart · minimal pairs
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Questions, a caseload we should think about, accessibility feedback — write to robin@kindabilities.com and Robin will read it.