iPad 2 Apps for Accessibility - Compiled by Clarissa Barnhill
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Proloquo2Go™ is product from AssistiveWare
that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who
have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech
voices, close to 8000 up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic
conjugations, a large default vocabulary, full expandability and extreme
ease of use to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. http://www.proloquo2go.com/
Pictello $14.99
Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices. Stories can be shared using iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi with other Pictello users through a free account on the Pictello Sharing Server. http://www.assistiveware.com/pictello.php
Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices. Stories can be shared using iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi with other Pictello users through a free account on the Pictello Sharing Server. http://www.assistiveware.com/pictello.php
Eye Glasses $2.99
The Eye Glasses app is ideal for farsighted individuals, those with reading glasses or bifocals, senior citizens and anyone that just needs to see more clearly. Eye Glasses clearly displays text or imagery. To use Eye Glasses, choose between 2x, 4x, 6x or 8x magnification and hold the iPad camera about five inches away from the item you want to see magnified! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eye-glasses/id331625886?mt=8
TouchChat HD $149.99
TouchChat HD is a full featured communication solution for individuals who have difficulty using their natural voice. TouchChat is designed for individuals with Autism, Down Syndrome, ALS, apraxia, stroke, or other conditions that affect a person’s ability to use natural speech. TouchChat enables you to subscribe to iShare, an online server where you can share customized pages with an online community. http://www.silver-kite.com/touchchat/support/
Digit Eyes $29.99
Digit-Eyes is the application that lets you use your device to scan bar code labels and to voice the results of the scan to you. You can scan the manufacturer's codes (UPC / EAN / APN / JPN / codes) on items and find out what those codes mean; and scan bar code labels of your own that you make using this website. To do so, you just request bar codes from this website and, using the printer attached to your computer, print the codes on inexpensive address labels. http://www.digit-eyes.com/cgi-bin/digiteyes.fcgi?action=home
Digit-Eyes is the application that lets you use your device to scan bar code labels and to voice the results of the scan to you. You can scan the manufacturer's codes (UPC / EAN / APN / JPN / codes) on items and find out what those codes mean; and scan bar code labels of your own that you make using this website. To do so, you just request bar codes from this website and, using the printer attached to your computer, print the codes on inexpensive address labels. http://www.digit-eyes.com/cgi-bin/digiteyes.fcgi?action=home
Tap Speak Sequence $29.99
TapSpeak
Sequence for iPad revolutionizes how parents, speech therapists, vision
therapists, schools, and institutions create and use message sequences
to help disabled children learn to communicate. Use TapSpeak Sequence
instead of sequential message switches to record and customize messages
without losing any previously recorded sequences. Kids with cerebral
palsy, autism, cortical vision impairment (CVI), pediatric stroke, or
any disability that impairs their ability to communicate can make use of
this app. http://conleysolutions.com/wordpress/
TASUC $15.99
TASUC
SCHEDULE for iPad is a very simple, picture-based schedule application
for iPhone/iPod touch, especially for small children to easily create
his/her own daily time-table by using image cards with sounds &
voices attached. This application was, above all, developed for verbally
disabled children and people with developmental disabilities such as
autism, so that they can manage their "want-to-do"s simply and in order.
As a result, an intuitive user interface and experience have been
realized, thus this application can also be used for ordinary children
and adults as well. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id429593198?mt=8&ls=1#
Sound Amp R $5.99
Amplify
the world around you discreetly with iPhone and iPod touch. Sounds are
sent to your earbuds in real time. Hear what you’d like to hear. Record
what you’d like to record! Works in many situations, around the table at
home, watching TV, in lecture halls, at parties, wherever you’d like to
hear, or overhear, the people around you! We have tuned soundAMP to
provide you crystal clear sound at the maximum volume possible. And with
its advanced technology, it even reduces volume over the limit. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soundamp-r/id318126109?mt=8
Tap To Talk FREE OR $99.95 to customize
Give your non-verbal child the portable, customizable, affordable, socially acceptable communication device.
You customize what your child sees and hears in TapToTalk with an
online program called TapToTalk Designer. With it, you build "albums"
that fit your child's needs. http://taptotalk.com/index.aspx
Grace $37.99
A
simple picture exchange system developed By and For non-verbal people
allowing the user to communicate their needs by building sentences from
relevant images. It can be customised by the individual using their
picture and photo vocabulary. http://graceappforautismoniphone.blogspot.com/
A
Signed English Translator" is the ULTIMATE tool for learning sign
language. The ONLY app that provides sign language instruction in 3D!
Our 3D character can be zoomed in or out and rotated to give you the
best vantage point for every sign. YOU control the placement of the
character – not us! No other product lets you do this!The library
includes more than 11,500 words. Type in sentences, phrases, words and
even the alphabet. Everything you enter will be saved in your History.
Easily locate your entries by date or alphabetically. You can delete
whatever you don’t want to keep.Use the controls to speed up or slow
down the signing; turn on or off the looping feature; and send the
character to his “home” or default position.
Scene Speak $14.99
Scene
Speak provides a framework on the iPad to create visual scene displays.
This application allows an image can be edited with active “sound
areas” that can be selected and used as a means of communication. Images
then can added into “books” by theme or area of interest. Scene Speak
is a wonderful communication tool for those with Autism, Aphasia,
Apraxia, developmental disabilities or anyone wanting to enhance
receptive language or visual memory.
