Occupational Therapy: Occupational Therapy Apps

Canopy Speak, available for iOS and Android phones and tablets, is a speaking medical translation app created with funding from the NIH. Try using it to bridge any communication gaps with your patients or clients with limited English proficiency. It cannot replace a translator, but it will provide over 4,700 translated common medical phrases.

From its publisher's site: 

Canopy Speak was designed to overcome logistical difficulties inherent in accessing current language assistance tools. Accessible on smartphones and tablets, Speak enables clinicians to interact with language-minority patients using pre-translated phrases and questions for common, straightforward, routine communication.

Canopy Speak includes:

• Languages included:

• Interactive Phrase Library : Pre-translated medical phrases, organized by frequently encountered procedures and medical specialties, and available in text (all) and audio (most)

• Connection to Live Interpreters: For users with hospital affiliation, that hospital's interpreter service can be linked for an immediate direct call from within the app


• Custom playlists : Custom playlists of frequently used phrases can be created, saved, and shared with colleagues