Pathways for Snap Scene vs GoVisual Experience

Pathways is a FREE, one-of-a-kind companion app for Snap Scene, packed with expert advice for how to meaningfully impact your child’s communication success. Based on best practices from experts in the field, Pathways provides tips, suggestions, and real-world videos to show parents, teachers, and even therapists how to get the most out of Snap Scene. Pathways is an expert blueprint for using Snap Scene, that’s clear and easy to follow. Many early language learning tools can be complex and difficult, making you want to give up, ultimately resulting in communication delays for your child. Pathways was developed to help parents apply best practices and proven techniques for their child in a simple, straight-forward way. The combination of Snap Scene and Pathways is your essential resource to have the biggest impact on your child’s communication success. What’s inside? Getting Started – Learn how to recognize scenes that motivate your child and how to be an effective communication partner. You’ll also find: • Step-by-step examples for various age or developmental levels • Helpful how-to videos • Ideas for scenes based on categories or senses that motivate your child Keep Growing – Discover how to grow your child’s skills through observation and development tracking. We’ll equip you with: • The ability to add scenes to the My Stuff folder for easy access • An evaluation for how your skills are advancing as a communication partner How to Use It – Find resources designed to help you do more, with the tools you already own. • Troubleshooting help • Pathways instructional videos • Snap Scene users guide Why It Works – Expert advice and best-in-class research packaged into everyday language and trustworthy advice. Here you can discover: • Research and resources behind the software • Articles supporting the research • Common myths and why not to believe them

Create a scene with GoVisual Experience! Start with an image or video and simply draw around the things you want to talk about. This free app lets you experience a taste of what the full version has to offer: Just-in-time programming makes it easy for kids to draw a hotspot, add text-to-speech, or record a voice for playback. Enriches language development while providing powerful communication in the interaction! Take a video and watch it with a student. Students can then easily pause and draw a hotspot then record a word, phrase, or sentence to communicate! Later, the student can play the video and talk about it with new communication partners. Video Scene Displays are also a great way to model job tasks and to help young adults communicate in their workplace. GoVisual includes the Transition to Literacy (T2L) feature—where a word dynamically pops up over the scene for several seconds—which has been shown to dramatically increase literacy comprehension. This technique is proven effective in research studies at Penn State University, www.RER-AAC.PSU.ede If you currently use GoTalk NOW, adding GoVisual to your app collection will allow you to create video scene displays that pair perfectly with your current communication book - creating links that jump back and forth between you GoVisual Scenes and GoTalk NOW communication books. Make a difference in improving communication and literacy for your students . . . GoVisual! FEATURES ● Create Video Scenes ● Draw hot spots with your finger (up to 25 in this free version) ● Transition to Literacy (T2L) to increase literacy comprehension ● Simple to use speech to text and text to speech options ● Uses machine learning to help identify over 20 common objects for ease of programming ● Create collage scenes with multiple images ● Add text on top of your images ● Quickly link to GoTalk NOW if desired ● Send scenes/collections wirelessly to nearby devices ● Use iOS 11’s drag and drop to quickly create multiple scenes - drop your photos and videos in from other apps!