What's New

• Improved user interface with larger multi-line text buffer and larger Speak, Clear, and Undo buttons
• User's home page is immediately loaded upon start-up
• Home page quick launch icon has been added to page list for easy return to user's specified home page
• Search feature has been widened to include AAC page content to locate words on AAC pages
• Dark mode display enhancements
• Optimized for iOS 15.5
• Requires iOS 9.0+

App Description

A collection of linked augmentative communication pages for an "emergent" AAC user first being exposed to AAC. Includes pages for both home and school, including pages for eating, drinking, washing up, needs, favorites, school subjects, teachers & classmates, calendar days, months, dates, and years, math operations, numbers 0-30, animals, transportation, science, spelling, songs, games, toys, and much more. This version uses real photos. (We offer this product in several versions with different symbol sets.)

Specifications:
Age: Preschool to 13 (language is just emerging)
Setting: Home & school
Voice: Girl (AT&T Natural Voice w/ pitch shift)
Language: US English
Grid size: 3 rows x 3 cols
Symbol set: Real photos
No. pgs: 87 plus 2 Core Words pages

Features Include:
• Emphasis on Core Words
• Easy editing and customization
• Add an unlimited number of speaking, linking pages
• Camera image acquisition directly in each cell
• Access to all provided images
• Easily show, dim, or hide cells
• Dimmed cell opacity is fully adjustable
• Dimmed cells remain active or can be disabled
• 'Restore mode' brings deleted pages from the provided page set back to their original state
• iOS text-to-speech (TTS) and recorded audio
• Adjust iOS TTS voice, speech rate, pitch, and volume
• Configure different TTS voice output settings for the user's voice and the auditory preview voice (when in scanning mode)
• International language support, including right-to-left text entry
• Word prediction with a 150k word library
• Optional word learning and tracking of frequency of word use
• 1x-3x cell magnification for low vision (scanning and direct select modes)
• List of pages includes page previews and a search bar
• Undo button
• 30-day user activity log in AAC Institute's LAM format
• Data tracking with privacy toggle and recording indicator
• Data logs may be copied for printing, sharing, and PeRT analysis
• Send messages to email and SMS & MMS text via email
• Pages may be backed up to a computer with iTunes File Sharing and a USB cable
• iCloud backup may be enabled

Switch support:
• One- and two-switch scanning
• Sequential and row/column scanning
• Auditory preview
• Bluetooth and direct touch scanning
• Supports RJ Cooper, AbleNet, Therapy Box, and Inclusive Technology Bluetooth switches

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • September 07, 2012 Initial release
  • April 02, 2013 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $1.99
  • April 03, 2013 Price increase: $1.99 -> $19.99
  • November 04, 2013 New version 1.1.0
  • April 02, 2014 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $1.99
  • April 03, 2014 Price increase: $1.99 -> $19.99
  • April 27, 2015 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $1.99
  • April 30, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $19.99
  • September 17, 2015 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $4.99
  • September 22, 2015 Price increase: $4.99 -> $19.99
  • November 30, 2016 New version 1.2.0
  • December 22, 2016 New version 1.2.2
  • August 29, 2019 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $9.99
  • September 05, 2019 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
  • September 30, 2019 New version 1.3.0
  • October 02, 2019 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $0.99
  • October 09, 2019 Price increase: $0.99 -> $19.99
  • October 15, 2019 Price decrease: $19.99 -> $0.99
  • October 22, 2019 Price increase: $0.99 -> $19.99
  • September 16, 2023 New version 1.4.0