Exercise guide
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Who it is used with
Who pours? What do they pour? Building sentences around one verb practises the people and things that go with it. VNeST is often used with:
Start in Assist mode: listen to a sentence and say it.
How to use it
A verb appears
For example: cut. Every word and sentence can be tapped to hear it.
Build sentences with it
Pick who does it and what they do it to. In Expand, add where, when and why.
Read and recall
Read your sentences out loud, then pick the verb you practised. Five verbs make a set.
Modes
The 1 · 2 · 3 strip at the top switches the mode. Pick the tense from the menu on the card.
Assist
Hear a sentence, then say it and tap I said it. Three sentences, then tell how it felt.
Build
Who might do it? What might they do it to? Three sentences, then read them and recall the verb.
Expand
Build a sentence, then add where, when and why, and say the whole thing.
Ways to get through it
Who and what choices are never wrong. Only the last step, recalling the verb, is scored.
Hint
On a choice step, picks a good answer to get you started. When recalling the verb: what it means, then its first letter, then the answer.
Topics
Tap the topic button to practise verbs from your real life.
The method behind it
Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST). An evidence-based approach speech-language pathologists use: build the network around a verb, who does it and what to, then expand. Read how it works →
What comes after verb connections?
When sentences come more easily, use them in everyday life: