Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that affects the ability to speak and understand spoken language. The purpose of this project is to create a virtual clinician to help individuals with aphasia practice self-initiated speech in everyday communication situations. The project will gauge the interaction and quality of this virtual clinician against those of a real clinician. The first of these tests was carried out using a prototype virtual-clinician avatar with a human driver, data was collected to compared efficiency of the client's speech to speech produced with a real clinician. Results suggest that clients respond appropriately to a virtual clinician.