Free aphasia games you can play right now
Three short speech practice sessions for stroke survivors — word finding, listening, and comprehension. No signup, no download. Each takes about two minutes.
Word-Finding Sprint
The classic naming exercise: how many words in a category can you find? Practices the retrieval that aphasia makes hard.
Name as many foods as you can in 45 seconds.
(fruits, meals, snacks…)
Sound Detective (Minimal Pairs)
Hear a word, tap the matching picture. Practices telling apart similar-sounding words — a core listening skill after stroke.
Detective Mind (Story Comprehension)
Read a three-line story, find the clue, answer the question. Practices the comprehension skills used in everyday conversation.
Lena walked into the office holding a closed umbrella.
The umbrella was dripping water onto the floor.
Her coat was speckled with raindrops.
What is the weather like outside?
Why this exists
NeuroSpark started as a home project: an app built for my dad after his stroke, so he could practice between speech therapy sessions without worksheets piling up on the kitchen table. It grew into a full practice companion — games you play by speaking, a guide voice that runs each session, difficulty that adapts to the person playing, and progress a family member or therapist can actually see. These free games are small pieces of it.
Everything here is practice support, not medical treatment. If speech changes are new or sudden, talk to a doctor; for a therapy plan, a licensed speech-language pathologist is the right person.
What the full app adds
- • Speak your answers — the app listens for the word you were reaching for, and is built to credit a close attempt rather than penalise imperfect pronunciation
- • Nine practice games covering naming, sentences, describing, retelling, and listening
- • Short guided sessions that adapt to energy and ability, with a voice that explains everything
- • Targeting — over time, sessions focus on the words and sounds the person finds hardest
- • Progress you can see — for you, your family, and your therapist
Common questions
What kinds of games help with aphasia practice?
Speech-language pathologists commonly use word-finding (naming) tasks, listening discrimination, sentence repair, and comprehension activities. The games on this page are short practice versions of those same task types: word finding, sound discrimination, and story comprehension.
Can I practice at home between therapy sessions?
Yes — most speech therapists encourage structured home practice between sessions, and many people see the most day-to-day practice time happen at home. Apps make that practice easier to do consistently and let a family member take part. Home practice complements professional therapy; it does not replace it.
Are these games really free?
Everything on this page plays free, with no account and no download. The full app adds voice-based play (speak your answers instead of tapping), a guide voice that walks through each session, difficulty that adapts to the person playing, and progress tracking you can share with a therapist.
Who are these exercises for?
They were built for adults working on speech and language after a stroke — especially word-finding difficulty (anomia) and aphasia — and for the family members practicing alongside them. Sessions are deliberately short so practice fits the energy someone actually has.
Written by Riley Nocek, who built NeuroSpark for his father after a stroke and rewrote it around what actually happened when they practiced together.
Not written or reviewed by a speech-language pathologist. These are practice activities, not medical treatment — if you are working with a speech therapist, show them anything here before you use it.