For people with aphasia and the families around them
How to communicate with someone with aphasia: slow down, offer choices, let them pick
How to communicate with someone with aphasia comes down to a few habits: slow down, offer choices instead of open questions, give time, and never finish the sentence for them. ExpressAgain puts those habits on a screen, so the person chooses from real phrases and the app speaks the choice.
What is already built
Fewer choices on calmer days
A 3-at-a-time switch on Communicate shows fewer choices, and there is no timer and no rush.
Where it lives: Communicate page, the 3-at-a-time switch · Read how it works
Learn, for the family too
Short courses on stroke and aphasia, from what aphasia is and why words get stuck to working with a speech therapist; family members get the plain education version.
Where it lives: Learn page · Read how it works
More about aphasia
The public aphasia page explains the types, expressive, receptive, global and anomic, in plain words.
Where it lives: The aphasia page · Read how it works
Companions who know aphasia
Companions on the Marketplace understand patients who cannot always get the words out: slow down, offer choices, use the patient's ExpressAgain app together, and let silence be comfortable.
Where it lives: Marketplace, Senior Companionship Care · Read how it works
Today: a phrase board the person taps, lessons for the family, and companions on the Marketplace who know how to wait.
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.
Should I finish the sentence for them?
The app is built around recognition instead: the person reads a phrase and selects it, and Build a message puts a sentence together from starters and endings the person chooses.
How do I find out what the person wants to eat?
Menu and Kitchen keeps what the patient can have, and the Quick Speak tiles on Communicate hold the phrases needed most, so a meal is a tap, not a guess.