‘SetSpeech’ was created with the aim of providing therapy material especially for individuals having speech and language difficulties. The idea was to create therapy material that could be accessed from their home or at bedside in a hospital or in a speech therapy clinic. If you know someone who has deficient speech and language skills post a neurological condition, ‘SetSpeech’ is a great option for that person to revive their speech and language skills. Individuals having aphasias (verbal and non-verbal), dysarthrias, apraxias, stammering can benefit from SetSpeech. ‘SetSpeech’ is a great option for nonverbal patients looking for printable AACs. ‘SetSpeech’ has a variety of templates and a large picture bank to create your AACs.

‘SetSpeech’ is an easy to use daily therapy tool for improving, enhancing and practicing speech and language skills being targeted in therapy. ‘SetSpeech’ is designed for SLPs, CGs and Patients. Be it oromotor exercises or automatic speech tasks or language task like naming, word recall, reading, all these are available on ‘SetSpeech’. The session planner enables a SLP or CG to plan a session with a variety of activities to keep the patient engaged in interesting and interactive speech and language tasks, which in turn helps them to achieve their speech and language goals. Once the session is planned, each activity can be done just with a click of an icon. When it comes to images ‘SetSpeech’ has an excellent collection of illustrations and real-life images. The images were designed and selected keeping in mind the age of people for who the materials are designed.

‘SetSpeech’ is divided into 5 main sections, which are: Oromotor Exercises, Articulation Drills, Automatic Speech Tasks, Speech and Language Tasks and AAC Printables. The Oromotor Exercises section has basic face massages and tongue and lip exercises and syllable drill list, for increasing strength and range of motion of speech articulators. Automatic Speech Tasks section has various automatic speech activities like numbers, idioms, songs etc. These activities are very helpful in the initial stage of speech and language recovery for stroke patients, TBI patients and patients who have undergone neuro-surgery. Speech and Language Tasks section is further divided into language modality tasks, reading tasks and memory tasks. The activities in this section are designed to build on and improve various speech and language skills. AAC Printable section has templates and a picture bank for creating communication boards, which can be printed and used as a medium for communication for patients who are predominantly non-verbal. Further, the Automatic Speech Tasks and Speech and Language Tasks are divided into sets. This is to make sure that therapy material in not repeated and doesn’t become redundant. Every day a new set can be selected for the same goals that are being practiced. The star feature of ‘SetSpeech’ is the session planner. The session planner helps you to collect the activities you need for your session in one place. These activities can then be administered one after the other in an order you have planned. The patient can be engaged for a 45 minute session with a variety of activities ranging from oromotor exercises to memory tasks to language tasks like picture description, word recall, math, naming activities etc. ‘SetSpeech’ is compatible with most of the video conferencing apps. Thus it’s a great therapy tool for teletherapy practice.

‘SetSpeech’ is a wonderful tool for SLPs treating individuals at bedside, in a hospital OPD, in a private clinic, at home visits or with teletherapy. The numerous activities in ‘SetSpeech’ enable the SLP to work on various speech and language goals with a variety of stimuli material. The session planner is time saving tool, where within minutes a SLP can plan a session for the patient. The session planner also has a section for the SLP to take down notes. The SLP can refer to them later to review patient performance and revise therapy goals.

‘SetSpeech’ is an excellent tool for speech therapy practice at home. With the guidance and planning from a SLP each caregiver can use ‘SetSpeech’ to perform speech and language tasks with their patients in the comfort of their homes. This applies specially to patients who cannot visit their SLPs on a daily basis owning to mobility limitations or distance limitations. With ‘SetSpeech’ the caregivers are empowered with a speech therapy tool that can enable them to conduct fruitful therapy sessions on a regular basis. The outcomes of these sessions can be shared with the SLP for further guidance and revision of therapy goals.

With ‘SetSpeech’ the SLP is equipped with therapy material at the tip of their fingers. All the SLP needs is a tablet/i-pad (with WiFi or Data plan) to conduct a session at bedside. ‘SetSpeech’ also enables the SLP to give practice work to the patient at bedside. This practice work can be done at any time that suits the patient even without the SLP being around. Later the caregiver can give the SLP feedback regarding performance on each practice task.

For some patients getting speech therapy at home is the only option. The reasons for this are many. May be there are mobility constraints or distance barriers or affordability issues. One questions here is ‘How can these patients get regular quality speech therapy practice?’ We at ‘SetSpeech’ can confidently say that ‘SetSpeech’ is one option that these patients can use. Regular practice by the patient at home is important in achieving speech therapy goals set by the SLP. ‘SetSpeech’ provides plenty materials for many speech and language skills. Using ‘SetSpeech’ patients can work on any skill in the comforts of their own home. Using ‘SetSpeech’ the SLP can plan and provide a detailed per day session plan for their patients who want to do speech therapy practice at home. With ‘SetSpeech’ caregivers have a handy and easy to use tool to conduct practice sessions with the patient. For using ‘Set Speech’ at home you need a PC or Laptop or Tablet or ipad or a smartphone and a good Internet connectivity (Wi-Fi or Mobile Data).

Patients who need minimal assistance in using or handling their computers/laptops/ipads/tablets/smart-phones can easily use ‘SetSpeech’ themselves. All activities have been well explained with examples so that the person can understand what he/she needs to do in each activity. Language Tasks under the sub-groups of SEE-DO and READING can be done by the patient without supervision of a SLP or CG.

A new user needs to first register with ‘SetSpeech’. There are two subscription options available: 6 months and 1 year. The subscription charges are ₹2500/6 months and ₹3000/year. Once a user subscribes for ‘SetSpeech’ all the therapy material becomes available to him/her for the chosen subscription period. Once the subscription period is over the user will have to renew the subscription.