You’ll love how this symbol-based app helps users learn how to express themselves. Proloquo2Go puts the user’s development first, with innovative features based on clinical knowledge and user research.It’s also one of the few AAC apps designed to support all users, from beginning to advanced. Completely customizable and designed for a range of fine-motor and visual skills, the app’s versatility makes it useful for non-verbal people with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and a range of other diagnoses or speech impediments like apraxia and dysarthria.
The content of this post has been updated. For the most current version that includes Android apps and a.—–Thanks to all who’ve given us great feedback and suggestions on our list of free and lite AAC apps. If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we have mixed feelings about the AAC app revolution. More specifically, we’ve had concerns about the decision-making process around app selection, and have advocated for that to occur within the context of a feature match process that gives appropriate attention to the full range of AAC options.In our digital curation sites, we link to tools we use for this process, such as the feature match forms developed by and the.
In our own teaching and clinical work, when AAC apps are being considered, we’re beginning to use a supplemental rubric that focuses more specifically on the language aspects of the app using this working draft. That is still in the preliminary stages, but we are happy to share the initial draft.Because this list sometimes gets circulated without the context in which it was originally developed, we decided to include some previous posts, resources, and comments related to this topic.1. Our post on2. And with AAC app sites and videos4.5. Tech Connect’s6. ’s site for app training videosAnd, finally, some excerpts from our original post:Graduate student SLPs are a fairly diverse group, but one thing that is common to almost all of them is that they are on a very limited budget. Although many of the AAC apps are reasonably priced, even that can be a lot for a struggling student.
We wanted to put together a list of the free or lite versions of AAC apps for them to explore on their own iDevices.First, a few caveats:1. Selection of AAC tools is always made after a thorough assessment. This is as true for apps as it is for SGDs.2.
This list isn’t intended in any way to endorse these apps or suggest that the free/lite version is sufficient. Hopefully, it will give future professionals a taste of what these apps can do and allow them to begin to think about how to make decisions about this in the context of a feature match assessment. Review sites like the one at and can be very useful when you are trying to see some of the features that apps contain.3. This list isn’t comprehensive. If you have links to other AAC apps that are free or have lite versions, please send them along and we will update our list.4. Students, remember what we’ve taught you about AAC. This doesn’t supersede what you’ve learned about AAC and language assessment, symbol selection, multimodal communication, etc.–59 Free and Lite Versions of AAC Apps.
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Although Free and Lite versions of aac apps are great, they often come with hidden fees later to unlock features or to customize the app. My son has found AAC Autism myVoiceCommunicator very helpful. It’s for android on Google Play and also on the Amazon Appstore for the Kindle Fire. It’s only $2.99 and it can be fully customized with your own categories and pictures. It also comes ready to use with pics already loaded.
I don’t mind paying $3 for a good piece of software that works. I have paid much more for other apps that are not as good. Here are the links:Google Play:Amazon. Your point about hidden fees is well taken, Mark. As SLPs and clinical educators we are always trying to find ways to get a good range of quality AAC apps in the hands of those who are doing the evaluations.
It is hard to use a feature match approach to assessment without being able to use the SGDs or apps with the client. Having a free or lite version of an app can be very useful in the context of a comprehensive assessment, particularly for those dealing with budget cuts.
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