Re: AAC Devices

[Guest guest]

I already wrote Jeannie, but just to let you know too.

My daughter's speech is horrible and it's not because she didn't have great

speech therapists. It's just the way it's going to be. She uses sign language

the most to communicate with family but she's had several different devices

over the years for school. She started out with communication wallets, then

moved on to devices with 16 or 32 buttons. In high school she used the

Springboard. As her high school years are coming to a close, we needed to make a

decision about what she was going to use. I wanted to buy it so the speech

therapist could work with her for a year or two before she left the system so

she could do well with it. The speech therapist decided what would be good for

her. She got loaners from a couple different companies and let Caty try them

out. PrentkeRomich is a favorite of hers. They send reps to the school and loan

out devices and help you get funding for it too. The speech therapist did most

of the funding application, I added my info, the OT added her info and we got

funded completely for it. So Caty now has the Vantage Lite. But I'm rambling,

you don't need to worry about that part of it if your child is 4. The school

system will provide any device he needs.

But as I was telling Jeannie, the coolest thing I've seen and the most cost

efficient is the Proloquo2go software for an iTouch or iPad. Maybe that's not

appropriate for a 4 yr.old either but it's something to think about.

Here's some websites if anyone wants to check out apps for communication:

www.proloquo2go.com

www.mytalktools.com

www.taptotalk.com

www.autoverbal.com

www.look2learn.com

Hope that helps. sorry I rambled.

---- Dayna Chandler <praisejesusforever@...> wrote:

> My son Luke who is 4 is being testing to see if he would benefit from a AAC

> device today so I'd be interested in any feedback as well.

> He makes sounds but no words yet.

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> Blessings,

> Dayna

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[Guest guest]

Just an fyi if you¹re not already doing this, parrot every sound he makes

back to him. It seemed to be very helpful to our girl who is seriously

verbal now. Sounds are the beginning of words and (I believe) a child learns

he is being listened to and what he¹s ³saying² is important.

Eleanor

On 9/20/10 7:23 AM, " Dayna Chandler " <praisejesusforever@...> wrote:

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> My son Luke who is 4 is being testing to see if he would benefit from a AAC

> device today so I'd be interested in any feedback as well.

> He makes sounds but no words yet.

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> Blessings,

> Dayna

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[Guest guest]

In doing more research on the iPhone, iPad, iPod apps, found some

interesting AAC apps that I wanted to pass along. The list shows the app

with its website so you can learn more about it. This is an individual's

list that has her ratings of each app.

Dayna, there are some apps for toddlers and young children that I

thought you might be interested in checking out.

http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/blog/new-technologies/2010/07/iphoneipad-\

apps-for-aac/?print

<http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/blog/new-technologies/2010/07/iphoneipad\

-apps-for-aac/?print>

I hope this is helpful to some of you ... I will be continuing to check

into this for my son ... I'm still not sure which AAC device I will be

getting for him, but the iPod Touch with some of the apps looks really

good. I would have to say the Proloquo2go app seems to be the best AAC

app from what I have seen so far. However, I don't think it has word

prediction ... does anyone know?

Oh, and I found another website that has an app that has word

prediction, but it is not available yet ... website says estimated

9/28/2010:

www.assistiveapps.com <http://www.assistiveapps.com>

Thanks to everyone who emailed me and pointed me into this direction.

The people on this list are the greatest!

Jeanne, mom to (15, DS) and (17)