For families facing a brain tumor
Glioblastoma communication problems: when the words are in there and will not come out
Glioblastoma communication problems often look like aphasia: the person understands, reads and remembers, but speech, writing and typing fail. ExpressAgain was built around that gap, so the person recognizes and selects language that is already there and the app speaks it.
What is already built
Tap any phrase to speak it
One tap says a phrase out loud, with no timer and no rush, and a 3-at-a-time switch shows fewer choices on the harder days.
Where it lives: Communicate page · Read how it works
Questions for the team
Medical Words explains what a test or a treatment is and offers questions the patient taps to ask the team out loud.
Where it lives: Medical Words page · Read how it works
The patient's own words
A personal phrase library the family and the speech therapist add to; Couldn't find it keeps a typed message that matched nothing so the family can add it.
Where it lives: The patient's words page · Read how it works
Saved and recent phrases
What was spoken today, yesterday and earlier, with the time, so the family can read what was said.
Where it lives: Saved / Recent page · Read how it works
Today: a phrase board the person taps, questions for the team, the person's own words and the Saved list.
How it works
Create a free account: your name, email, a password and who the app is for (yourself, someone you care for, a patient, or an organization).
The guided setup takes four short steps: who the app is for and the condition mode, text and button sizes, a voice and the first people, then a review.
Tap any phrase on Communicate to say it out loud; invite family with a personal link and give each clinician or professional a code from the Care Team page.
Questions people ask
Is it free to start?
Yes. Free is where everyone starts, and communicating is never behind a paywall: tap to speak, the phrase boards, the sentence builder, Letters, the Phrase Library, lessons, Games and Play, the emergency screen, the Emergency Plan Card and the built-in voice. Free also invites 2 family members to the Family and Friends Feed. The Pricing page shows the plans side by side.
What happens after I sign up?
Sign up asks for your name, email and a password, and who the app is for. Then the guided setup takes four short steps: who the app is for and the condition mode, text and button sizes, a voice and the first people, then a review. Entering the patient's name and date of birth pins the two phrases hospitals ask for constantly.
Does the person have to type?
No. The app is built around recognition: read a phrase and tap it. Type and the Letters board are there for the days typing works, and a family member can type anything to be spoken.
Can the speech therapist help?
Yes. The SLP joins with the family's code, adds to the patient's own words, assigns exercises that appear on the Practice page, and reads what changed since the last visit.