Text-basedAAC

Hybrid App

Structures

Sono Flex(SymbolStix)

Clicker Communicator(SymbolStix)

(Widgit)(PCS)

Answers:Yes/No

ClaroCom Pro

GoTalkNow(Widgit)

(SymbolStix)(PCS)

SceneSpeak

Scene & Heard

(Widgit)

SPEAKall!

Tap Speak Button

SentenceCreator

WidgitGo(Widgit)

Story Creator

Tobii Dynavox Compass

(PCS)

Sounding Board

Book Creator

FTVS HD

Image2Talk

Proloquo2Go(SymbolStix)

See Touch Learn

Choiceworks

Speak it!

TouchChat HD(SymbolStix)

Picture Me Calm

Word AACess

MyChoicePad Pro(Makaton)

iPad Apps for Complex Communication Support Needs: Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Bitsboard

Proloquo4Text

AAC Evaluation Genie

Assistive Express

Predictable

ChatAble(Widgit)

AACorn

Talking Cards

Talking Mats

MobileSign2(BSL)

Widgit Vocab

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

An electronic version of this chart can be downloaded from http://www.callscotland.org.uk/downloads/posters-and-leafletsIn the electronic version, App names are ‘clickable’ links, taking you to information about the individual App on the iTunes site for the UK.

LAMP Words for Life(Unity)

Symbols2Write

Our Story

Sym

bol-based G

rid System

s

FullCommunication

Systems

Text-To-Speech

Less

Comm

on

Symbols

or own

photos

Starter Vocabulary Sets Provided

Commonly

Used

Symbol

Sets

Basic Systems

Spec

ific

Appr

oach

es

Com

muni-

cation

Narratives

Skill

Building

SimpleCommunication

Recorded Speech

Vis

ual

Sce

ne

Dis

play

No M

essa

geBa

r

PECS

Talking Mats

Visual Schedules

Photo-

Stories

BSL

Language

Assessment

PECS VI+ iAskUGrace

Autismate 365(SymbolStix)

Grid Player(Widgit)

(SymbolStix)

Unusual

Features

Switch AccessRelatively 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!

Yes-No Your Way

Pics Aloud

Inner Voice

TalkTabletUK(SymbolStix)

Alexicom AAC(SymbolStix)

Abilipad

Phra

se

stor

age

Pred

ictio

n

Key

boar

d

Quick

Chat

Flip Writer

Rocket Keys

Speak for Yourself(Smarty)

MessageBar

So Much 2 Say

Expressive(Smarty)

PictureCanTalk

Identifying Suitable AppsThis 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 www.janefarrall.com

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; message sharing; support features.

AAC Ferret

My Pictures Talk

Pictello Own

Imag

es

CommunicationSkills

*

*

Click n’ Talk

Able AAC

TapSpeak Sequence

Use2Talk

s

s

s

s

s

s

s

s

s

s

s

My Story Book Creator

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

AlphaTopics

Verbally

Quick Type AAC

Avaz Pro(SymbolStix)

EasySpeak HD

PICSmart

AAC123

Little Story

Creator

BSL Finger Spelling

Bitsboard Preschool

Verbal Comprehension

Cognitive Development

s