Tool for rehabilitating language skills

A method of using a tool for improving language skills comprising:

• selecting, using the tool, from at least two semantic concepts, a first language concept to be addressed;
• visually presenting, using the tool, a first word card associated with the first language concept to a patient, wherein the first word card is a physical card;
• asking the patient to answer a first question related to the first language concept about the first word card;
• receiving a spoken patient's first response;
• scoring the patient's first response to the first question asked with a first word score based upon at least one or more of the following:
• the number of spoken words given in the first response, the number of prompts the patient needed to be provided in order to elicit the first response, the amount of time the patient needed to produce the first response;
• wherein the first score is a combination of a base score associated with the number of spoken words and a deviation from the base score based on one or more of the number of prompts the patient needed to be provided in order to elicit the first response or the amount of time the patient needed to produce the first response;
• wherein the tool comprises a physical game board with a scoring area arranged in a matrix with at least a first location and moving the first word card to the first location;
• wherein the first location has more than one rotational orientation with respect to being right-side-up and the first location represents the base score and the orientation represents the deviation;
• and
• rotating the first word card within the first location to visually indicate the deviation to the patient,
• wherein the physical game board further comprises a semantics concept selection tool comprising a spinner having a plurality of options, wherein each option is associated with corresponding each semantic concept of the at least two semantic concepts.