A couple of years ago, she spent more than $8,000 to buy a computer, approved by Medicare, that turns typed words into speech that her family, friends and doctors can hear. "Kara Lynn has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or A.L.S., which has attacked the muscles around her mouth and throat, removing her ability to speak. So how did a relatively obscure app rise above the rest? Perhaps one article from a major newspaper this fall helped out: Proloquo2Go was the focus of a New York Times feature, entitled Insurers Shun Multitasking Speech Devices, this past September: Proloquo2Go must have sold a number of apps to make the list - even at number 23 of 30, it outsold ESPN, Family Guy and ESPN among tens of thousands of others. Other apps in the list include Major League Baseball, CNN, ESPN, AOL AIM, Family Guy and more. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch." Here's how the app describes itself: "Proloquo2Go is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. The app, which costs $189.999, appears among apps that generated the most revenue in 2009, which seems to be how Apple created a list of the Top Selling apps for the year. ![]() ![]() Perhaps surprisingly, one medical iPhone app made the list of the top 30 selling iPhone applications in 2009: Proloquo2Go. We are hoping to conduct the training in January 2018.Apple recently announced the top selling apps, songs, games and podcasts from 2009 in an iTunes feature it called iTunes Rewind 2009. Hopefully, by you coming out, we can accomplish getting his device up to date with our new goal of longer utterances as well as training staff so they can become proficient to make future changes and updates.Īt the most, I believe we would have sped teacher, sped paraprofessional, campus SLP, SLP supervisor, and grandmother/guardian at the training. The SLP and sped teacher are stretched for time and are both new to this student and the device so the time it would take to \”dig in\” and figure out the ins and outs of the app AND make the needed changes to meet his current needs are too time consuming. Our main need is for someone that knows how to manipulate the system to do the customization and syncing of devices. Hands-on help to complete customization of device ***this may need to be done outside of the training period Strategies to incorporate use of device in classroom and home settings Training for staff and guardian on customizing – he is now ready to move to longer utterances ![]() The focus of the training would be student specific (3rd grade student with Autism) to his personal device (proloquo2go on ipad, one ipad for home use and one ipad for school use). Tagged as: access training, augmentative alternative communication, communication device, communication tool, grammar support, learning curve, new features, Tips and tricks, word prediction In each of these sessions you will learn an introduction to the app, how to customize the app, customizing vocabulary, and tips and tricks on how to get the most out of Proloquo2Go. In each of these sessions you will learn an introduction to Proloquo2Go, how to customize the app, vocabulary customizations as well as adding and modifying vocabulary, backing up your device, word prediction, grammar support, and using iTunes and the App store for Proloquo2Go.įor users, family, and caregivers there is a four part webinar series and each session is about 40 minutes in duration. Thus, keeping users up to date.įor professionals there is currently a six part webinar series in which each session is about 30 minutes in duration. And as new features are added to the app, there is new training offered. While this app has much to offer, it can also have quite a learning curve for those who teach it and use it.įortunately, the developers of this app offer a free online training in way of webinars. This app essentially turns the iPad/iPod Touch into an Augmentative Alternative Communication Device. Proloquo2Go is a full-featured communication tool that offers a solution for people who have difficulty speaking.
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