Talk Around It Personal

Talk Around It helps people with word finding difficulties to practise Naming Techniques and improve Word Retrieval. Developed by Speech and Language Therapists, Talk Around It uses evidence-based techniques to treat conditions such as aphasia, anomia, stroke, dementia, alzheimer’s and autism. It now includes over 100 high quality pictures, over 800 Cues, Testing and Progress Reports to document patients’ progress.

The Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT) review:

'Talk Around It apps have therapeutic benefit and shall be a good medium within treatment to target word finding deficits for specific cohort of patients……..I would recommend these apps and will have them in my therapy toolbox.' (IASLT Magazine, spring/summer 2014


New updates include:
• Picture Customisation: Option to omit pictures and create a favourites list
• Testing: Test 10 words, 50 words or your Favourite Words
• Progress Reports: View patient progress showing results over time and by test type
• Enhanced audio

Key Features
• Over 100 quality images
• Over 800 cues (audio and written)
• Semantic questions for circumlocution
• Evidence-based practice techniques
• Option to hide timer in test mode
• Easy to use interface
• No ads or in-app purchases


Talk Around It is used in clinical and home settings to treat a range of speech disorders including as anomia and aphasia.

Using Talk Around It helps with

• Word finding or naming skills
• Cued Lexical Retrieval
• Receptive and expressive language
• Self-cuing to help word finding
• Circumlocution skills

Our users like the accessibility of the app and the simplicity of the interface. Just download the app and begin your naming practice using the hi-res photographic images, audio and written cues.

Speech and Language Therapists using our app say:

“…a very useful tool to aid in the generalisation of strategies learned in one-to-one therapy sessions.” (Kerrie, SLT, Ireland)

“Easy to use app. Clear pictures and nice interface. Accessible for children.” (Trudy, SLT, Singapore)

“Visually this app looks really well. The pictures are clear and the layout of the app is understandable and user friendly. The cues available are thorough and easy to understand. …. I could definitely see this being useful in therapy.” (Eimear, SLT, Ireland)