GoTalk® NOW

Great, uncomplicated, easy-to-use, customizable AAC program with good, clear voices (extra, relatively minimal purchase), easy set-up and organization---and somewhat limited upload to private/public "galleries" of single or multiple sets (up to five "pages") of your boards., Go Talk's easy facility for choosing internet images to supplement each button on a board does not limit the DATA size of any of its internet images. Although you may easily resize an enormous image to fit on a button, it remains densely data-rich. --Create boards full of these images, and they will either take forever to upload (to mail or transfer to the "Gallery"), or occasionally crash. It's wonderful to have a resident facility for accessing net images; however, an improvement might be continued access (to find pictures the excellent resident Go Talk library is missing) with a self-limiting picture "data size" utility. One must be careful of overloading this excellent program with (e.g.) too many voices, too many pictures, etc.. In my experience--with Go Talk library images (and a smaller data load), the program's boards transfer quickly and efficiently. AAC is inherently clunky, and for moderate users, this is wonderful program which, with a little creative thinking, even inspires novel therapeutic scenarios. (I'm an SLP, relatively inexperienced with AAC. And this program is my own "educational opportunity"...so I am very pleased with it. (Thanks to Attainment for creating it!)

We purchased GoTalkNow to replace another app we had , which was really expensive and clunky to use. I was able to make multiple screens that my son can use at both school and home.I have also made starter pages for his teachers as well, REALLY easy to use. He ad his teachers no longer have to navigate through page after page of icons. I also like that you can link video to the buttons for reinforcement. You can set it up so kids can't just click out of the app as well, how great is that!?! Oh, and they are out of Wisconsin and have VERY helpful tech support, VERY helpful…. Can't stress how happy we are with it.

We have a 4 year old non-verbal son with Autism and the GoTalk Now app has finally allowed him to communicate his wants and needs with us. He uses the PECS system at school but refused to use it at home. When we purchased the iPad we immediately began looking for communication apps. The thing we loved the most about the GoTalk Now app was that we started with a blank slate. Although it takes time to customize the app, it is worth it. We can add and/or delete things as needed which is great. It's a great app for a decent price. We are very pleased with it and it's wonderful to finally be able to communicate with our son.