iPod Touch/iPhone App Round Up for Users with Significant Disabilities and Those who Teach Them

AAC

• Expressionist - is a app by Adastrasoft it holds 120 common expressions in 7 catagories and 1000+ nouns using photographs as identifiers in addition to a black and white line drawing of a cartoon-like person to create "composite images", the system design is a little baffling to me just looking at the screenshots and videos
  
• iConverse - this is a "you get what you pay for" augmentative and alternative communication solution, offering six choices with a decent voice and clip art icons and a horrendous text-to-speech voice for user created buttons ($10)
  
• Look2Learn AAC - yet another "you get what you pay for" ap, this one is photo based (comes with 80) and allows you to change sizes of the images, basically this allows the user to communicate "I want" messages only (only 4 buttons with vocal output). ($25)
  
• MobileTTS - by Gus Inc. a text-to-speech application for iPod Touch, iPhone and Blackberry designed as TTS AAC (not yet available)
• Small Talk - by Lingraphica is a photobased communication program designed for adults who have had strokes
  
• Proloquo2Go - a complete augmentative and alternative communication solution using SymbolStix with a high quality voice and many customizable features ($150 until July, $200 after July) see TLWMSN review
  
• Talk - by AlterMa Inc is a text-to-speech application ($0.99)
• iCoon - a global icon dictionary using very simple line drawings and digital pics, meant for travelers, may have other implications in our field
• Locabulary - is a primarily text based (some small digital pics), list based, sentenece chaining, AAC or vocab teaching or prompting system that uses GPS to determine vocabulary on the page (i.e. puts you to the coffee page in Starbucks) currently the lite version is up for beta testing
  

Prompting

• Halo Talk - by AdstraSoft this forced choice/prompting app is designed as pairs of opposites to use to offer choices from a field of two photos or to prompt to using a field of two photos, like the other AdstraSoft applications this uses the cartoon drawing of a person as well as photos ($33)
  
• iPrompts - this is a new (and somewhat buggy) an ap allowing you to use photograph or clip art symbols to make visual schedules, pair with a count down time or make basic choices from a field of two (without speech output)($50) see TLWMSN review
• Picture Scheduler - this app shows a visual reminder (photo or video) at a specified time as well as playing a voice note to cue the user ($3)
  
• Step Stones - by AdastraSoft is a new app for visual schedules using photos the current version has 12 visual sequences, the new version to be released will add 15 more and allow user made sequences, the user can check off each step as it is done ($29)

Other

• A Special Phone - this is an app that allows dialing without looking at the key pad and a shake of the phone instead of pressing dial, additionally you can program six dial by photo numbers that allow dialing without knowing or mathcing numbers ($0.99)
• Behavior Tracker Pro - allows the users to log ABC, frequency or duration data and then see it graphed, supports multiple data collections at once ($9.99)
  
• Speaking Images - shows a screen full of clip art images, press anyone to hear its name and see it bigger ($0.99)
• Tallymander - list based tally management, keep tally of multiple things (behaviors, data) at once and e-mail it
• Signing Time - the famous DVDs now have an app! Learn sign on your iPhone or iTouch
• Sign4Me - SEE Sign Language Tutor using animated avatar ($9.99)
• iReward - is essentially a "star chart" or behavior contract system for your iPod/iPhone ($2.99)