GoTalk® NOW LITE vs Snap Scene Lite

Attainment has been making augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools for 25 years. Our experience is front and center in GoTalk NOW LITE, a communication app that introduces you to the flexibility, ease of use, and power of Attainment’s popular GoTalk NOW. GoTalk NOW LITE is a fully functional augmentative communication app for those who have difficulty speaking. Create up to three personalized communication pages in this free app! GoTalk NOW LITE has all the essentials of an effective AAC app, like adjustable page layouts, customizable navigation, recorded and text-to-speech capabilities, and an included symbol set. If you need more Communication Pages or the ability to share, simply upgrade your GoTalk NOW LITE to full GoTalk NOW Features via an in-app purchase. The new LITE offers three styles of communication pages: Standard, Express, and Scene. In Standard pages, the action occurs when the location is pressed. In Express pages, recorded or text-to-speech messages build in a speech bar and play in sequence when the bar is pressed. Scene pages are built around a single photo or image. When you arrange invisible hotspots over people or objects in the photo, the hotspots play speech, music, or videos! Feel free to mix and match pages within a communication book. Create a communication book with unique settings and up to 5 pages in length. Envision the impact of blending video, music, and jump to actions among your pages. Plus, GoTalk NOW LITE is a full-feature scanning app! Features: • Choose 1, 2, 4, 9, 16, 25 or 36 locations per page. • Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the GoTalk Image Library. • Search the Internet in-app for the perfect image or icon. • Purchase SymbolStix, PCS, or Widgit Symbols libraries in-app. • Crop, scale, or rotate an image using your fingers. • Combine multiple images in a single communication location. • Color pages, borders, and text with any hue. • Move and size text with your fingers so it feels just right. • Record your voice or use our free text-to-speech voice. • Add spoken labels (auditory cues) to any button. Great for scanning, guiding visually impaired users, and identifying any new or difficult vocabulary. • Trim videos in-app, and play them from any communication location. • Select our alternate video interface to pause or exit the video easily. • Link songs from your playlist to any communication location and control them with Pause/Play, Next, and Previous. • Include a core vocabulary button for extra quick access to important messages. • Create multimedia social stories and step-by-step instruction layouts by linking pages with an after action. •In-app purchase allows for back up of communication books via Dropbox or to any Mac or PC for safekeeping. • Ability to create multiple books with unlimited pages via in-app purchase. • Store and share interactive templates (each including speech, video, text, and jump to links) on our online gallery via in-app purchase. • Download and edit premade templates from Attainment’s collection on the public gallery available via in-app purchase. • Print and save communication book layouts via PDFs. • Access LITE with single or two-switch scanning. Attainment is well known for top-notch customer service. Email us with questions or comments and check our website for free webinars. And yes, we're happy to talk to you on the telephone!

Snap Scene(TM) provides Instant scene-based communication and language learning for your child. Take a photo and tag it with recordings to let your child communicate on the fly. Snap Scene turns everyday moments into chances to learn to communicate naturally. Designed for chidren (as early as infancy) at the beginning stages of learning to communicate who: - do not speak - may be slower in learning to talk - may speak but are difficult to understand - are at risk for communication challenges It’s never too early… but it can be too late Snap Scene will set your child on the path to language learning and communication. Proper use, early enough in your child's development, can make the difference between language learning success and lifelong language difficulties. Don't wait… Start today! Communication in the Moment What sound does a lion make? Juice or milk? Roll the ball! Focus on what interests your child no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Use Snap Scene to make your child an active part of the conversation. What makes Snap Scene Different? It's fast Research shows that creating scenes in Snap Scene is much faster than other popular software. Language Learning The word is presented to the child at the same time as the recording… reinforcing word meaning and literacy. Visual Navigation Navigation between scenes is so natural and intuitive that no training is required. Research-Based and Tested Snap Scene is the licensed commercial version of Easy VSD. Easy VSD use was shown to increase: - initiating and maintaining social interactions - sharing information and expressing needs and wants - using new words and concepts including colors, numbers, and letter sounds - combining words and concepts to express more complex ideas The LITE version of Snap Scene is limited to 10 scenes and does not allow the user to import scene.