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Operating System: iOS (Apple) Thousands of pictures at your fingertips, 3,328 to be exact. Pick pictures that match the interests of the child you are working with. There are 11 major categories like Plants, People, and Places and within each category there are subcategories like Body Parts, Working, Playing, Airplanes, Trains, etc.

beginner communicators to express them- selves using pictures on their smartphone devices. Pictello Special Skill: basic living skills, communication, early childhood, language development, scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output, authoring system Disability: cognitive, learning, physical, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, AssistiveWare Price: $19.99 Pictello offers a simple way to create talk- ing books and social stories on your iPad and iPhone. Each page in a Pictello story can contain a picture or short video clip, text, and a recorded sound or can be read aloud using over 100 natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices. Picto-Selector Picto-Selector Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, language development Disability: learning, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: iOS (Apple) Select from over 28,000 pictos and com- bine them into picto sheets. Fast search options and categories to select from. Create your own pictos from photo’s and text. Use drag and drop to combine pictos in sheets that visualizes daily tasks. Picture Cue Dictionary Software Attainment Company, Inc. Price: $79 Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch, multi switch Disability: cognitive, learning, speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac Five life skill categories: daily activities, house keeping, looking good, mealtime and shopping. 705 words/phrases il- lustrated in age appropriate style. Great for creating individualized printouts for shopping lists, daily activities, vocabulary list, plus print out worksheets designed like the on-screen activities. Activities: ID, Multiple Choice, Match, Voice Recorder. Pictures for SLPs and Special Education Teachers LocuTour Multimedia Price: $4.99 Special Skill: basic living skills, communication, language development Disability: cognitive, learning, speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary

online/personal-responsibility/ for more information.A new version of Personal Responsibility for lower functioning indi- viduals was recently added. Phonics for All for Grid 3 Smartbox Assistive Technology Price: $143 - $285 Disability: learning Skill Level: preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows Phonics for All is a reading and spelling programme that supports users of AAC who are learning to read and write.Many people that use AAC don’t have the ability to sound out words, which is an important part of language development. Phonics for All helps fill in this gap by teaching the key sounds that make up the English language. Phonology LocuTour Multimedia Price: $9 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch Disability: cognitive, hearing, learning, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows, Mac Phonology consists of six games to im- prove auditory processing and speech pro- duction based on phonological processing theories of Hodson and Padden. Games for speech carryover, practice and fun. Can be used for home practice, school or clinic. Easy to follow lessons that children enjoy. Phonology II LocuTour Multimedia Price: $49 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, language development Disability: learning, speech Skill Level: elementary, secondary Operating System: Windows, Mac Eight fun games to improve auditory processing and speech production based on phonological processing theories of Hodson and Padden. These easy to follow lessons for children are excellent for atten- tion training, cause and effect and speech production. Pic-A-Talk AAC Pic-A-Talk Price: $0 - $9.99 Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, language development, speech output Disability: cognitive, hearing, learning, physical, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Android Pic-A-Talk is an augmentative and alterna- tive communication (AAC) app that helps

(Apple) Point to Pictures (PTP) is a touch oriented program that helps persons with severe communication disorders learn about and use language. PTP starts at the cause and effect level to motivate and help specific learners to use pictures as communication symbols and then progresses to matching and identifying pictures. Point-N-Click Polital Enterprises Special Skill: , adapted keyboard/switch access Disability: physical Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows Point-N-Click is an on-screen virtual mouse for anyone that has difficulty clicking a mouse. If you can move a mouse, trackball or any pointing device, you can click in any application that runs within a window. It is icon-based and does not require reading skills. Pointing Wizard Koester Performance Research If you or someone you know has physical difficulty using the mouse, try Pointing Wizard. Follow the steps in the Pointing Wizard, and it will determine if there are changes to the Windows mouse settings that may make it faster and easier to use the mouse. With your approval, it activates those changes for you. Works for trackballs, trackpads and other pointing devices, too. It’s free! Polaris N2Y, LLC Price: $499.99 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, IEP/IPP Disability: learning Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple), Android, Chrome Polaris is a highly collaborative, time-saving online system that aligns stakeholder teams with task automation, timely prompts, step-by-step support, and access to current student data to guide all team members through the stages of IEP development- planning, writing, execut- ing, reporting, and supporting the most meaningful student<br />outcomes. Positivity N2Y, LLC Price: $474.9 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, vocational, , IEP/IPP, instructional management Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple), Android, Chrome, Other

PixWriter Software Attainment Company, Inc. Price: $125

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Special Skill: communication Disability: learning, speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple), Android, Chrome PixWriter Software is a talking picture and word processor. It helps students write independently by combining symbol support with highlighted text and speech. Users can compose written documents without mastering phonics, spelling, and alphabet skills.

Place in Groups - Create groups of related items STEP BY STEP Price: $0 - $2.99

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch, diagnostic Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool Children learn about groups of related items. App helps develop visual perception skills, cognitive skills, and language skills. Full Version: https://itunes.apple.com/app/ id1135861893?mt=8 PODD for Grid 3 Smartbox Assistive Technology Price: $79 Special Skill: communication, early childhood, language development, speech output Disability: learning, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows The PODD grid sets organise language according to the reasons we communi- cate and are based on the popular PODD communication books. PODD is available in Grid 3 and Grid for iPad. Choose from four easy to personalise grid sets, varying in size and level of complexity to support learners as their language develops. Point to Pictures RJ Cooper and Associates Price: $1.99 - $59 Special Skill: communication, early childhood, language development Disability: cognitive, physical, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS

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