🤔✨ SLPs: Wouldn't it be cool if…?


Hi [first name goes here],

Ever turned to your SLP bestie and said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” (...SOAP notes wrote themselves? ...patients got real-time feedback on their speech? ...therapy was more like real life?)

Yeah, same. So we decided to take those “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas, combine them with evidence-based practices, and make them a reality. Because making our work easier while improving patient outcomes is what Tactus is all about.

🎙️ Instant Feedback Through Speech Recognition

Wouldn’t it be amazing if:
🔹 A patient with dysarthria could practice functional phrases and get immediate feedback on which sounds were harder to understand? How about comparing their attempts after using a strategy? ✅ We have that in Using Speech Strategies.
🔹 Someone working on word-finding got feedback on which words they nailed and what was missing? ✅ Yep, we've got that too. In 3 different treatments.

With speech recognition, your patients get real-time feedback on how they're doing that they can see and hear.

📱Real-World Functional Treatments

Wouldn’t it be cool if therapy felt more like real life?
🔹 Text chains, menus, weather reports? ✅ Got ‘em in Reading Functional Materials.
🔹 Entering payment information while getting interrupted by phone calls for alternating attention practice? ✅ Yep. It's called Working with Disruptions.

Our treatments are carefully designed with realistic scenarios, pictures, and language that simulate modern life.

🏠 Homework That Adjusts Itself

Wouldn't it be marvelous if my patients' homework got easier when they were struggling and harder when they were nailing it?
Free home practice for patients that increases and decreases in difficulty based on performance, keeping them in the "frustration-free zone."
Hints are available to help patients be successful while working independently.

🧠 Built-In Metacognition & Strategy Training

Wouldn't it be revolutionary if computerized practice actually incorporated evidence-based therapy to repetitively practice strategies and build awareness?
✅ Patients complete pre-therapy metacognitive predictions & strategy selection. Post-therapy reflections encourage self-awareness.
Strategies are explicitly taught, practiced, and reflected upon through repeated practice to encourage true learning and generalization to real life.

📝 Auto-Generated SOAP Notes

Wouldn’t it be game-changing if I didn't have to write up all the detailed therapy notes after each session?
✅ The Virtual Rehab Center gives you a report covering the O & A sections of your SOAP note with enough of the S & P sections to get you started. Just copy & paste!
✅ Our reports are written by SLPs like you. They're not AI - this is real intelligence.

So now that you’ve learned about some of the “Wouldn’t it be cool if” features we built into the Virtual Rehab Center, it’s time to experience it yourself. 🙌

Try it FREE for 21 days and see these features in action: https://tactustherapy.com/rehab

The more you use it, the more you'll notice the little things that truly make speech therapy better. 🚀

All the best,

-Megan

P.S. In case you missed it, I covered what the Virtual Rehab Center is—your all-in-one online platform for adult speech therapy - and how it's different from our apps in our last newsletter. Always good to start with the basics.

Megan @ Tactus Therapy

I'm a speech-language pathologist & co-founder of Tactus. Tactus offers evidence-based apps for aphasia therapy and lots of free resources, articles, and education - like this newsletter. Sign up to get my updates 1-2 times a month.

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