IPad Apps for Complex Communication Support Needs ...

[Pages:1]iPad Apps for Complex Communication Support Needs: Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

See Touch Learn

AAC Evaluation Genie

Sentence Creator

Bitsboard

Verbal Comprehension

Flip Writer

s Predictable

Word AACess

Quick Type AAC

AlphaTopics

Rocket Keys

*Dotted lines indicate that there can be overlap of App features across category boundaries.

Talking Mats MobileSign2

Widgit Vocab

Cognitive Development Symbols2

Assistive Express

Speak it!

Verbally

*

Proloquo4Text

Write

ClaroCom

Bitsboard

Pro

Preschool

ApprSopaeccifhiecs Keyboard

stPohrPrraagesedeiction

Assessment Language

(BSL)

BSL Finger Spelling

SPEAKall! PictureCanTalk

PECS VI+

iAskU

So Much 2 Say Grace

TaMlakitnsg BSL

PECS

Choiceworks

Visual

Picture Me Calm FTVS HD Schedules

Story Creator Little Our Story Story

Creator

My Story Book Creator

My Pictures Talk

s Pictello

PShtootroie-s

CoNmcaamrtriauotnnivi-es

BSukilidlling

TexAtA-Cbased

Communication Skills

Full Communication

Systems

Simple

Communication Text-To-Speech

Recorded Speech

SysBtaesmics

HSybtrruidctAupreps

Symbolbased Grid

Systems

Abilipad

Grid Player (Widgit)

(SymbolStix)

QuCichkat

s Proloquo2Go (SymbolStix)

Sono Flex

CUoSsSmyeemdmtsobnolly

(SymbolStix)

s

TalkTabletUK (SymbolStix)

Clicker Communicator

(SymbolStix)

Message

(Widgit)

Bar

TouchChat HD

(PCS)

PSrVoSeovttcsiadarebtduelrary

(SymbolStix)

WidgitGo (Widgit)

Avaz Pro (SymbolStix)

s

Tobii

s ChatAble (Widgit)

Dynavox Compass

(PCS)

s

ImagOeswn MessBaagre

DiSVsicpsleuanayel

LeCsosSmyommrpboohonwolsntos UFneuastuurael s

Click n'

GoTalkNow

Talk

(Widgit)

Book Creator

Talking

N o

PICSmart

(SymbolStix) (PCS)

s Cards

TapSpeak Sequence

Use2Talk

s Sounding

Board

AAC123

Yes-No Your Way

Pics Aloud

Answers: Yes/No

s Tap Speak

s Scene &

Heard

(Widgit)

Expressive

*

LAMP Words

(Smarty)

s Alexicom AAC (SymbolStix)

for Life (Unity)

Speak for Yourself (Smarty)

EasySpeak HD Autismate 365

Able AAC

(SymbolStix)

MyChoicePad Pro

(Makaton)

AACorn

Button

SceneSpeak

Inner Voice

Image2Talk

Identifying Suitable Apps

This wheel does not include every App available in each category. There are hundreds of AAC Apps and many hundreds of combinations of features. This wheel includes Apps that CALL broadly finds reliable and useful and/ or that stand out in their category. For a useful, comprehensive and regularly updated listing of AAC Apps, see

And also... AAC Ferret

This is a valuable App developed by Spectronics that allows you to search for AAC App by keyword and/or by specific feature(s) e.g. App types; type of voice output; visual representation; vocabulary features; vocabulary display; access; customisation; AAC Ferret message sharing; support features.

Switch Access

Relatively few Apps are designed specifically for switch access. They tend to be the ones that offer the widest range of scan options and may be the `safest' choice for switch users. These are marked in this wheel with a small red `s' (beside the App icon). From iOS7 and above, Accessibility settings built-in to the iPad mean that almost any App (and the iPad itself, desktop, and functions) can be operated by external switches (or by using the screen as a switch). But be careful! A few do not work at all ? or not well ? with iOS switch control. Always check before buying - perhaps via a specialist centre such as CALL Scotland - whether it actually works or not!

An electronic version of this chart can be downloaded from In the electronic version, App names are `clickable' links, taking you to information about the individual App on the iTunes site for the UK.

Version 1.4, January 2016 CALL Scotland, The University of Edinburgh. CALL Scotland is part funded by Scottish Government.

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