Inference Pics
iOS Universel / Education
Work more effectively on social inferencing goals in speech and language therapy. Help children and adults with social communication difficulties improve their ability to make social inferences. Social inferencing skills are best developed using real-life photos and scenarios.
- Get a speech therapy tool that helps older children, teens and adults recognise facial expressions, interpret body language, and use contextual clues to make social inferences.
- Improve expressive language, social skills, thinking and reasoning by using this speech therapy app.
- Create the right experience for each client by choosing a social inferencing activity that matches their level.
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“When working with older students or adults, Inference Pics is a fantastic solution that offers flexibility and ease of use... this stands out to help clients with important inferencing skills.” — Dan Fitch, CCC-SLP
“My clients love this app, and I love using it with them. It's my go-to when working on social inferencing, understanding emotions and working on expressive language.” — Hannah O'Driscoll, CCC-SLP
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TRY INFERENCE PICS FOR FREE
Download the Lite version to try a free sample of the full version.
Finding interesting and engaging social inferencing photos and scenarios is surprisingly hard even for speech-language pathologists and speech and language therapists. Think of this app as your helper, taking the pressure out of finding suitable social inferencing photos and scenarios for use in speech therapy sessions.
7 READY-TO-USE SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITIES
Inference Pics includes 7 activities:
- What Has Happened?
- Jobs
- Places
- Seasons
- Feelings
- Conversations
- Thoughts
HOW IT WORKS
STEP 1: CHOOSE A SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITY
Tailor your client’s experience by choosing an activity that matches their level. Jobs, Places and Seasons are easier activities, while What Has Happened?, Thoughts and Conversations are more complex.
STEP 2: MAKE AN INFERENCE
Users are presented with a real-life photo and asked a question such as:
- What has happened?
- How is the person feeling?
- What are they saying?
- What are they thinking?
The first question varies depending on the chosen social inferencing activity.
STEP 3: EXPLAIN THE REASONING
Users then answer: "How can you tell?"
This encourages them to identify facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues that support their answer. An annotation tool allows users to draw directly on the image to highlight facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues, and explain their reasoning.
WHO IS INFERENCE PICS FOR?
- Parents
- Teachers
- Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) / speech and language therapists (SLTs)
- Children and teenagers with language delay, social communication difficulties, or autism
- Adults with cognitive-communication difficulties due to stroke or traumatic brain injury
- Adults with social communication difficulties and/or autism
The app is intended to be used interactively with a parent, teacher, therapist, child, or adult user.
SKILLS TARGETED
- Expressive language
- Social skills, thinking and reasoning
- Social inferencing
- Recognising facial expressions and body language
- Understanding emotions
- Reading comprehension
FEATURES
- Over 350 high-quality real-life social inferencing photos
- Two questions per photo
- An annotation tool for highlighting clues
- User profiles
- Questions that prompt inferential reasoning
- Option to show or hide possible answers
- Results summary that can be emailed
- Results tracking and built-in storage
- No subscriptions
- No monthly bills
- No Wi-Fi required
Inference Pics is designed to help speech-language pathologists, teachers, parents and caregivers work on higher-level expressive language, cognitive-communication, pragmatic language, and social communication skills.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
* New: Annotate Images – Draw directly on pictures to circle clues, underline details, highlight important information, and work through inference activities together.
* New: Add Your Own Scenarios – Create personalized inference activities using your own photos.
* Browse available pictures – You can now view the full list of available pictures in Settings, with separate Child and Mature image collections.
* New star rewards – Earn stars as you complete activities.
* New voices – Added natural US and UK English voices.
* Refreshed Home screen – Updated category artwork, and made a cleaner layout.
* Improved getting started – Clearer information screen with a better overview of the activities.
* Other improvements – Updated contact links and made visual refinements throughout the app.
