![]() It features short learning and practice activities organised in chapters. Proloquo Coach provides a step-by-step guide to the Proloquo app and AAC best practice. Support to use Proloquo is provided via a companion app, Proloquo Coach, available for either iPad or an iPhone. Both are available on iPhone and iPad.Ĭommunication Partner support to use Proloquo2Go is available from the AssistiveWare website. Proloquo2Go is available in English, Spanish, Dutch and French and Proloquo is available in English. Both apps provide access to grammar support to aid literacy development. For example, the ‘Society’ topic page has the words ‘diversity’ and ‘responsibility’ and provides access to related topics such as ‘Historical figures’ and ‘historical events. Proloquo has a larger vocabulary than Proloquo2Go and covers a wider range of topics and concepts, designed to accommodate school curriculums. You can’t record speech onto a button with Proloquo. You can add your own vocabulary by creating new buttons and adding words, and symbols or photos. These core words are based on frequency of use and are in a fixed position to support motor memory.īoth Proloquo and Proloquo2Go allow personalisation to suit the vocabulary needs of the AAC user. Proloquo has a set 14 core words in a fixed position on the topic pages. With Proloquo, vocabulary is accessed through tabs across the top of homepage which contain folders with 1 or 2 pages of core words and fringe words. Fringe word are used for particular activities, situations, or interests such as ‘park’ or ‘sandwich’. Vocabularyīoth apps provide a mix of core words and fringe vocabulary on each page.Ĭore words can be used across all situations such as ‘you’, ‘want,’ ‘more’ and ‘go’. Proloquo aims to provide an AAC user with as much access to language as possible and is best suited to individuals who have no access issues such as vision impairment or difficulties with manual dexterity. The fixed grid on Proloquo is designed to provide the user with consistent access to a large vocabulary. Proloquo2Go allows the user to mask access to vocabulary through the Progressive Language feature. According to the research they completed on Proloquo2Go across various countries, many users were stuck on grid sizes and customisations that were not allowing their language to develop. RationaleĪccording to the makers of the apps, AssistiveWare, there are clear rationales to the decision around making Proloquo less customisable than Proloquo2Go. The Proloquo home page has 48 words laid out in sentence order and placed in a fixed location to support motor planning. While Proloquo2Go has lots of grid size options, Proloquo has one grid size. The main difference between the apps is the level of customisation available. Importantly, the differences are not just at the level of appearance. However, Proloquo has words arranged in columns using background colours, which is visually clearer than Proloquo2Go’s columns of white buttons with coloured borders. Both apps use colour coding to assist in locating word type, such as orange for pronouns, pink for verbs and green for prepositions. ComTEC takes a look at Proloquo and discusses some of the main differences between the two apps.Īt first glance, Proloquo looks more modern than Proloquo2Go. It's a Conversation about a new way to converse, and we hope you'll check it out.The names may be similar, but Proloquo is quite different from Proloquo2Go.ĪssistiveWare released the Proloquo2Go AAC app in 2009 and the Proloquo app in December 2021. Today on the Conversation, we talked with Sennott about his software and the difference it's making in people's lives. Choosing from about 8,000 symbols, people with autism, Lou Gehrig's disease, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and others with trouble communicating can tap out a sentence and give their thoughts a voice. The program converts symbols and text into speech, which it then reads aloud on an iPad's speakers. student and specialist in Augmentative Alternative Communication at Pennsylvania State University, Sennott co-developed the app, which people can download from the iTunes store just like thousands of other programs. Many of the devices had limited portability, and their cost - anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 - placed them out of the reach of families without insurance.īut Samuel Sennott's software, Proloquo2Go, offers comparable features as those older machines on an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch at a fraction of the cost. ![]() What they overlooked, though, was its potential to change the lives of people with autism.įor decades, the autistic have relied on bulky text-to-speech machines in schools and homes to help them communicate. April 27, 2010— - When the iPad was released earlier this month, reviewers were quick to tout its advantages for reading books, watching movies and browsing the Web.
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