Between the Lines AdvancedLite

Free speech therapy app for autistic high schoolers-adults for social inference!

This app, created by a speech-language pathologist, is a free app for autistic adolescents-adults who need practice with social inference, interpreting vocal intonation, auditory processing, facial expressions, body language, and idiomatic or slang expressions. It is a sampler of activities in the full version app (Between the Lines Advanced) which includes more activities.

Using real photographs and short mini-video clips of a variety of social situations and expressions, this social thinking app provides a dynamic way to help learn and practice interpreting the messages that are “between the lines” and simply can’t be replicated with worksheets and static flashcards. Scenes for the body language activity include a shopping mall, office, restaurant, family room, outdoors, school and party.

This Lite app provides 12 samples of each of the three activities for a total of 36 tasks and is for a single user only. (The full version provides 225 total tasks)
This app uses American expressions and body language.

There are three activities in this app:

1. Listening/Auditory Processing ("Who said it?") The user hears a voice speak a sentence, e.g., “Are they gonna turn that music down?!” A question is then asked, “Who said it?” The user is shown several faces. The user touches the correct facial expression that matches the voice. This is a great way for autistic adolescents and adults to work on auditory processing and emotion recognition.

2. Body Language: ("Who said it?") A very short video-clip is shown that depicts an interaction or situation. For example, one teen girl says to another, “I’m thinking I might go out with Jack on Friday night. What do you think?” Her friend responds by making a wishy-washy kind of “I’m not sure” face. The camera closes in on her and the narrator says, “What is she thinking?” The user’s task is to look at the choices of responses and select the one that matches the facial expression/body language. This is a great activity for working on perspective-taking, social inference, and social thinking.

3. Expressions: ("What does that mean?") A very short video-clip is shown that depicts someone speaking a sentence that contains an idiomatic expression, e.g., “Oh that salesman was a smooth talker!” The user is asked to select the best response to the question, "What does that mean?" This is a great activity for working on situational social inference, perspective-taking and other social pragmatic skills so important for autistic people to understand.

This Lite version is for a single user only. The percentage correct is reported for each user’s performance on each of the three activities. The user can select his/her own individual settings. Settings include: Selection of the activities, order of the activities (or random), answer choices (group of 2, 3 or 4), how to display choices (automatically or manually) and whether to move forward automatically or by touching an arrow. Progress can be tracked, and displayed or not displayed. Reward animations are provided at selected intervals for a welcome fun and break. These are not games of skill but a fun diversion.

The lite version includes one game, Dunk Tank.

Data can be printed, saved or emailed.

***Please check out the extension activities at the end of the Information Page, which is on the home page. It is also available on our website.


PRIVACY POLICY: We do NOT collect personal data from our users and have no ads. Personal data regarding user performance on the tasks on this app are self-contained and not transmitted in any way, unless the user chooses to email them to someone else. There are no in-app purchases in this app.

Developed by licensed and ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist and author, Patti Hamaguchi, M.A., CCC-SLP. Visit our website: www.hamaguchiapps.com