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Apps for use with young children and students with disabilities

SoundingBoard

SoundingBoard is an AAC app developed by the AbleNet.  You can create create custom boards using AbleNet symbols or your own photos.  The app provides layouts that accommodate 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 9 choices.  Version 2.0 of this app includes the following features:

Linked Boards: You can now choose to link one board to another on any message location.  For example, you can create one board with “red” objects and one board with “blue” objects.  Then create a third board with two messages that invites the user to choose the color.  That message can now link them to the appropriate board.

Single and Dual Switch Access: Using AbleNet’s bluetooth access switch, you can configure SoundingBoard™ to recognize single switch access (with a scanning interval from 0.5 to 9.0 seconds), as well as two-switch access.  Visit www.ablenetinc.com/soundingboard for purchasing information for AbleNet’s exclusive iDevice access switch.  Switch access works both on the board screen as well as the board selection screen.

Pre-Loaded Communication Boards: Fourteen communication boards come preloaded with the app. use.  Those boards highlight key communication outcomes: Expressions, Emergency information, Reading, Daily Living, Social Situations, Shopping.

Take a video tour of this app by clicking below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nuqYa2He1c

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2.2 or later

Posted in AAC and Communication & Social Skills.

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