There are a lot of things I like about this app, but some glaring omissions too. First, what is missing: There is no search feature- important if anyone else will be modeling use of the AAC app at home or at school, and that person needs to know where a particular word is located, or if the word exists at all. The second feature missing is the ability to assign a specific page for a button to jump to. You can create new pages very easily (and change between a handful of page button sizes interchangeably), but it appears you can’t make a button to jump to the home page, for example. You also cannot easily hide a bunch of buttons on a page at once, which is useful when first starting out exploring a device. I also was surprised to see a very basic error included- when you tap the “I” button, it announces “capital I” instead of “I”- this was easily fixed, however, by going in to edit mode and teaching it to speak another message, “eye”, so that it sounds correct when selecting “I”. Considering these issues, the lifetime one-time purchase needs to be more competitive. I do like that you get a full 30 days to trial the app as well. (I did have to use my email to create a free account to do this.) Now the pluses: there are several premade vocabulary size options to choose from- I like the 5 x9 grid the best- this has plenty of preloaded vocabulary, and adding more is a quick process-editing is very easy and intuitive - you can even embed you tube videos, your own videos from your camera roll- OR you can take a video on the fly right then and there and add it to a button, very cool. Same with pictures, audio, text, AND drawing- very few AAC apps have this capability. I LOVE the ability to search for a picture online through the internet as well. Sometimes you just want to add a nice picture of a food choice or something, and looking for a clear image of that with no background clutter is easy using this search feature. I also like how you can add a button on any page, as needed, that brings up a pop up text window- where you can write in a word via the keyboard as an additional way to communicate. It is also easy to set the background color of a button- I find it very useful, for quicker word-finding, to use color coding to distinguish between verbs, nouns, and other parts of speech. I think this app has a lot of promise, but needs to add more features to justify such a high price tag if purchasing outright.
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