You set the goals. TalkAlong delivers the reps.
The evidence is clear that weekly therapy alone is rarely enough practice. TalkAlong is the vehicle for high-frequency, distributed practice between your sessions — built to respect motor-learning principles and your clinical judgement.
The practice volume you can't deliver in-clinic
Functional targets practised with clear, consistent modelling, many times over — the distributed repetition that turns a cued production into an automatic one.
Your clinical judgement stays central
You set the targets and direction. By default the app doesn't auto-score accuracy — speech recognition is unreliable for disordered speech, and feedback on every attempt can hinder motor learning. The carer judges; the app models and encourages.
Visibility without data entry
See what was practised and how it's trending over time through a read-only progress view — information for your sessions, not another admin task.
A view of how they actually say things
The read-only progress page can include a communication dictionary — the words your client uses and how they say them, built only from corroborated practice. It's for understanding, never a clinical score. Export it as a communication passport for handover, school or a new clinician.
Realistic about the evidence
We position TalkAlong as an adjunct. Direct evidence is strongest for app-based practice alongside therapy, and is still developing for some groups — we won't ask you to overclaim to families or funders.
Motor-learning principles, by design.
High-frequency, distributed practice of functional targets, with support that fades as the person succeeds and increases when they struggle — and a warm, safe-to-fail tone throughout. We'd value your feedback in shaping it.
Help shape TalkAlong
We're looking for speech pathologists to preview TalkAlong and tell us where it's useful and where it isn't. Join the list to take part.
- The daily practice that actually gets done — without being the therapist
- An Australian voice that adapts to the person's age
- For less than one therapy session a month; may be NDIS-claimable