Health and Wellbeing Portal
We can utilise smartphone apps to make day to day living easier. Here are some of the ones staff at Heales like using (n.b. we do not officially endorse or support any apps).
Meditation techniques for sleep and stress reduction
Meditation made simple
Your self-care expert in CBT & mindfulness
Anxiety & Stress Chat
Pain diary and community CatchMyPain
Advice on common muscle, back and joint problems
Back pain relief at home
Yoga and pilates fitness plans
Object and colour recogniser, which will speak out loud what it sees
Mobile dictation app that allows you to dictate documents, edit, format and share on the go.
Text to speech reader, which can read documents, PDFs and hardcopy text such as menus and magazines
Keyboard app for mobile and tablets with big keys, gestures, favourites and predictive-text to make typing easier
Use video chat to lipread. Other apps with video chat include FaceTime (Apple), WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger
A research hearing aid app which takes in sound through the microphone on your smart phone, makes the sound better and plays it in real time through your headphones
Speech to text app that can recognise what someone else is saying and transcribe it into text.
SoundALERT can notify you of sounds in your enviroment, such as doorbells, firealarms and oven timers, by onscreen notifications, vibrations and flashing lights to ensure your safety, security, and comfort.
