Arabic/‏العربية‎ (2020)

Translation was completed to Arabic, in Saudi Khaleeji dialect, by three thorough and dedicated Speech Language Pathologists in Saudi Arabia.

Frequency derived from the Open Source Arabic Corpora (OSAC) by Saad & Ashour (2010).

English (2013)

Vocabulary and audio are specific to three English-speaking countries – Australia (my location), the USA and England. For example, the same image is depicted as ‘lollies’, ‘candy’ or ‘sweets’ depending on the region. The region should default to your location automatically. I am happy to hear from people interested in adapting materials to other English-speaking countries!

German/Deutsch (2024)

The German translation was carried out as part of a master´s thesis. Lena Werner, speech pathologist, translated the website and adapted it for the German context. As part of the project, the website was also tested with individual people with aphasia. The project was supervised by Dorothea Peitz (M.Sc.) and Dr. Katja Hußmann, who also contributed to and supported the translation and testing.

Frequency derived from the German data of the open subtitle corpus (http://www.opensubtitles.org/).

Greek/Ελληνικά (2024)

The Greek adaptation of aphasia therapy online was generously supported by a Telematics Trust Innovation grant. Dr. Maria Kambanaros, a professor of speech pathology at UniSA and Cyprus University of Technology, oversaw the cultural and linguistic adaptation of the materials.

Greek frequency data comes from Ktori et al. (2008)

Mandarin/中文 (2023)

Mandarin adapttion was completed thanks to the extensive labour of:

• Sajlia Jalil, who led the team from the speech pathology department at Changi General Hospital
• Denise Lee and Chai Cai Ling, speech therapists
• The Telematics Trust also supported this work through an innovation grant.

Wayne Huang, speech pathologist, provided assistance with phonemic cues.

Frequency data was sourced from Cai & Brysbaert (2010) which is drawn from subtitles.

Norwegian/Norsk (Bokmål) (2025)

Speech-language pathologist Kristine Tveter Borgen has put a lot of time and effort into the Norwegian translation as part of her master’s thesis. She translated, adapted and recorded the items, with the help of speech-language pathologist Vanessa Seidler Krone who works as Health Care Advisor for LHL. As part of her thesis, Kristine Tveter Borgen collected data on user experience through qualitative interviews and observations. The project was supervised by Krone and Melanie Kirmess, Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, who served as an important academic advisor and supported the translation and testing.

Wordlists were created using frequency data from subtitles (377,000 unique words from 8.8M sentences).

Portuguese/Português

European (2020)

Translation completed with a lot of labour by José Grincho, while Speech Pathologist Luísa Rezende, Occupational Therapist Ana Tavares and Professor José Fonseca provided support and advice.

Frequency data is specific to European Portuguese, from www.linguateca.pt

Brazilian (2021)

Dr Roxele Ribeiro Lima (aphasia researcher) and Marina Antoniazzi Mancini (speech pathologist) volunteered many hours of time to adapt into Brazilian Portuguese and record audio.

Spanish/Español

European (2021)

Thanks to Aitana Viejo Sánchez, who translated the site into Spanish single-handedly! Aitana is a speech pathologist and is working on her PhD at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her research focuses on pragmatics and social communication, and one of her areas of interest is aphasia.

Frequency information from SUBTLEX-ESP (Cuetos, Glez-Nosti, Barbon & Brysbaert, 2011)

Latin American (2023)

Yoel Droguett and Dr Yina Quique kindly put a lot of work into adapting the Spanish materials for the Latin American context, revising all of the word and sentence data and re-recording all audio files

Yoel is a Speech-language pathologist from Chile, he works with swallowing, voice and acquired language disorders in long-term care and acute care in Yukon, Canada.

Dr. Quique is a speech and language pathologist from Colombia. She is committed to improving rehabilitation outcomes and healthcare services for stroke survivors with aphasia, especially for Spanish speakers with aphasia.

Turkish/Türkçe (2023)

Many thanks to Mr Memik Yıldız and Dr. Özlem Oğuz for their exceptional work in translating the website into Turkish. Their efforts and commitment have made it possible for Turkish speakers to benefit from the site.

Frequency data comes from a large corpus of word frequency from subtitles: Frequency counts for 4.3m tokens calculated from 824.2m tokens.

Urdu/‏اُردُو‎ (2022)

Alishba Ali and Associate Professor Rashid Mahmood worked hard to translate the website into Urdu - a huge thank you to both for their work. Alishba is a speech pathologist with experience working with aphasia patients at Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan. She is also the National Deputy Head of the Research Department at SYNCH. Associate Professor Rashid Mahmood is a linguistics researcher who has been at Bisha University since 2013. He is the author of 35 research papers in World Englishes, Language Variation, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Stylistics.

Vietnamese/Tiếng Việt (2024)

The Vietnamese adaptation was wholly supported by a Telematics Trust grant. MyTien Lam Lazzarotto provided high quality cultural and linguistic translation services and Genevieve Vuong advised on clinical and technical aspects of adaptation to Vietnamese.

Thank you also to Mr. Tran Huu Duc (Lecturer - Faculty of Nursing and Medical Technology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh city)and Ms. Pham Dinh Ngan Thanh (Lecturer - Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh city), and Lisa Nguyen (speech pathologist from Western Health, Melbourne) for advice and feedback.