Leff Lab Therapy Apps

Here are therapy apps that the Leff lab have developed.

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Attentional Therapy for the Treatment of Neglect Disorder: Using virtual reality to treat visual neglect after a stroke

Eye-Search is a free online therapy for patients with visual search problems caused by brain injury. It is a clinically proven, behavioural therapy designed to improve patients' speed and accuracy when finding objects.

Read-Right

Read-Right is a therapeutic web-based app for people with hemianopic alexia (HA). HA is a condition caused by focal brain damage (e.g. stroke) which damages a person’s vision relating to one half of the visual world (usually to the right in HA). As a result, HA readers are deprived of the upcoming words when reading which results in HA readers making many extra eye-movements. The app displays scrolling text, which retrains the eye movements important for reading.

iReadMore

iReadMore is a new reading therapy app designed to improve word-reading speed and accuracy in people who have language problems (aphasia) after stroke. Our research demonstrates that iReadMore is effective. Please email ireadmore@ucl.ac.uk for more information.

Listen-In

Listen-In is a digital therapy app for people with aphasia. Therapy tasks aim to improve understanding of spoken words. Results from the clinical trial showed Listen-In is effective at improving comprehension of practiced words. The app will be available soon on Google Play (from March 2021). Please email listen-in@ucl.ac.uk for more information.

iTalkbetter

iTalkbetter is a digital therapy app for people with post-stroke aphasia and word retrieval impairments. The app is currently being tested in a clinical trial with persons with aphasia.

Gotcha!

Gotcha! is a digital therapy app for people with mild-moderate Alzheimer’s disease who have difficulties naming people they know well. The app is currently being tested in a clinical trial with persons with dementia.