Notice visible features
Look for clear clues such as wet, dry, clean, dirty, open or closed.
Explaining & Describing
Imagine your child having a clearer way to describe what they can see.
Wet or dry. Clean or dirty. Open or closed. Small visible differences can carry important meaning.
Richy uses clear pictures and spoken questions to help autistic children and children with learning disabilities practise understanding and describing visible features.
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Clear picture. Spoken question. More than one way to respond.
See Richy in action
Real Richy describing practice using visible, concrete features.
Does this feel familiar?
Sometimes your child can see the difference but finding the describing word is harder.
Your child may notice that one shoe is muddy or one mitten is wet but still need support understanding the word that describes it.
Richy uses concrete visual features so the question has a clear target rather than asking the learner to guess what description is expected.
Look carefully. Hear the describing word. Connect it to what is visible.
Real product. Real practice.
See how Richy practises Explaining & Describing
The learner sees clear visual choices and answers a question about a visible feature such as wet, dry, clean or dirty.
1 SeeA clear visual appears 2 HearRichy asks the question 3 RespondTap or answer aloud 4 LearnGet clear feedback
Let my child try Richy Why this matters
Describing words help children communicate important details about what they see.
Understand describing words
Connect familiar adjectives with what can be seen in the picture.
Answer about what they see
Practise choosing or saying a clear feature-based answer.
Build expressive understanding
Strengthen the link between visual information, language and response.
Richy keeps early describing questions concrete and visually clear, so the learner knows which feature they are being asked about.
More than one way to answer
They can choose the picture or practise saying the describing word aloud.
Tap
Your child can choose an answer on screen.
Speak
When appropriate, they can practise answering aloud.
Different children communicate in different ways. Richy gives them more than one way to respond.
Designed for clear describing, not vague guessing
Clear describing, not open-ended guessing.
Richy focuses on visible, meaningful features and clear contrasts, helping learners connect what they notice with the language used to describe it.
“It’s not just asking my son to repeat ‘A is for apple’ like other apps. Richy actually makes him stop, think and try harder.”
— Parent tester
For parents too
See how describing skills are developing.
The Parent Dashboard helps you see what your child is developing and what Richy recommends practising next.
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Why Richy
Created with real families in mind.
Richy was created by a mum of an autistic child, together with a team informed by language and communication research.
Structured visual practice designed to make language clearer without forcing one way of responding.
Parent feedback
What parents are saying
“It’s not just asking my son to repeat ‘A is for apple’ like other apps. Richy actually makes him stop, think and try harder.”
— Parent tester
“Usually he walks away from learning activities, but he kept asking for the next picture.”
Parent tester
“It takes some of the guesswork out of knowing what to work on next.”
Parent tester
Start with a starting point
Find out where to begin.
- 1Create your free account
Add your learner.
- 2Complete the starting assessment
Richy looks at what your child can currently do across different skills.
- 3See their starting point
Then decide whether you’d like to continue with Richy’s adaptive practice.
Help your child practise noticing and describing what they can see.
See the feature. Hear the word. Show what you understand.
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