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Augmentative Communication Devices

Tools to be used in addition to, or in place of, normal spoken communication in the classroom.
Alternative Vocabulary 1: 
speech, communication, text, software, communicate, voice, touch
Alternative Vocabulary 2: 
picture, talk, screen, using, speak, pictures, device, image, without, assistive, words, alternative, disability, augmentative, visual
Alternative Vocabulary 3: 
keyboard, nonverbal, technology, aac, disabled, impaired, email, messaging, audio, tool, accessibility, read, aloud, computers, language, devices, programs, instant, options, non, communicator, output, type, input, others, interface, reader, content, app, communications
Alternative Vocabulary 4: 
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Alternative Vocabulary 5: 
driven, silent, navigation, action, selected, based, generation, ac, electronic, mobile, text-to-voice, voicing, code, techniques, computer-assisted, communicative, friendly, game, supplement, panel, made, pictorial, icon, extract, see, chatty, choose, tablet, maker, turn, communicates, users, click, method, tts, dictate, express, stephen, hawking, recognition, controls, command, selection, bypassing, images, speakers, visuals, digital, non-speech, cognitive, speaker, learner, substitution, audible, item, instead, narration, tap, on-screen, graphical, cognition, simplified, simplify, developmentally, delayed, auditory, pointer, accessible, vocalize, just, referenced, includes, spell, predictive, unable, strategies, generator, wireless, mouse, dedicated, gaze, tracking, prediction, macros, adaptive, keyboards, impairments, symbols, simple, earphones, hear, friends, ability, connect, pad, solutions, technologies, portable, service, transform, text-to-audio, slurred, disorder, video, calling, texting, across, wait, typed, press, enter, send, im, compose, search, acoustic, rooms, messengers, e-mail, organizations, assisting, written, turning, repeat, delay, eyes, deaf, functionality, multiple, languages, automatically, sticky, smart, phone, automated, sending, systems
Scanner with black base and four images displayed on the front of the device.

Communicator device that allows users to pre-record and play various audio messages. This device was designed to be accessible for those with visual impairments and features easy-to-see illuminated icons.

Yellow and blue texture pads in front of smiley and frowny face icons mounted on white base with speaker in center.

Assistive communication device that allows users to pre-record audio messages. The textured two-switch, two-message communicator offers tactile rewards when users initiate language.

A yellow button positioned at an angle on a black, wedge-shaped device with a slot to hold a paper card with a word and an image.

A one-button communications device that requires a gentle touch to activate. 

Large round, black base with circular red button on top. The button is gently sloped downwards and sideways, toward the user.

A single-message communicator that can double as a switch device.

60 square grid menu with cartoon images and text. Above the icons are the words, "I want that".

An augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app that lays down a language foundation for non-verbal individuals that is based on the unique and powerful Unity language system.

PECS IV+ logo

PECS IV+ is an app for the iPad which helps transition learners who have mastered phases I through to IV of PECS to high tech AAC methods. It allows users to construct a multi-picture sentence strip using sentence starters. It uses synthesised and/or digitised voice output.

An icon of a mobile phone placed over a book to demonstrate text shown on the phone.

A professional text-to-speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. Upload text and documents or convert to mp3 to listen to anywhere anytime.

ModelTalker logo

ModelTalker is a speech synthesis software designed to benefit people who are losing or who have already lost their ability to speak. It allows people to create a personalised and unique synthetic voice that is representative of their own or of a family member's voice. This personalised synthetic voice can then be used on speech generating devices with a speech output software or app.

He hajo app menu featuring four rectangular buttons with the options speak, memory, photos, and agenda.

An app designed for use by individuals with an impairment in communication (Augmentative and Alternative Communication; AAC). Communication is possible with the use of pictograms, while a calendar helps with daily activities.

An aac board on a tablet screen.

Grid Player is a free Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) app that helps people who cannot speak to communicate, including those who use symbols or whose speech is unclear.