App Profile: PECS IV+

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Rating: 4/5

The PECS phase IV+ app is the perfect transition system for students who are going from a communication book to a sound generating device. The jump from a communication book to a large vocabulary system can often be to overwhelming and we lose the student. This app is a stepping stone for many of our students and seeing their communication book on the iPad makes sense to them and is an easy transition. We build vocabulary and work on expanding sentences while they continue to utilize functional communication. While the Phase IV+ app has many features and qualities to facilitate a student transitioning for it to be on par with other communication apps it highly needs a way to back up the student’s individualized and specific pages. Working in a school system where students devices get broken or changed a back up forum is a necessity. This app is perfect for those students who are capable of creating sentence and mastered Phase IV, sentence structure. They have learned how to communicate and will now learn how to use a high tech system that is individualized to their personal communication book.

Milky Mom

Rating: 2/5

I think that the app should sync across devices, so you don't have to reload tons of pics! Very inconvenient, especially for children.

adam-kennedy

Rating: 1/5

Has an artificial limit for some reason. People have been asking them to up the limit or remove it, but they don’t care. The page’s will randomly lose their layout. It also desperately needs a sync feature. Do yourself a favor and get something better.