Proloquo

My partner has been utilizing this application for the past year, and it has proven to be highly effective. It eliminates the need for me to engage in the guessing game regarding her attempts to communicate. She is an individual with autism who typically communicates verbally but experiences periods of nonverbality due to stress or overwhelm. Consequently, the combination of her autism, ADHD, anxiety, and PTSD using this application has enabled her to communicate when she physically cannot. Given our limited budget, we refrained from investing hundreds of dollars in an application that might have failed to meet her needs. Since adopting this application, she has been able to communicate more effectively during her shutdowns, enabling her to engage in conversations with me or others. This has significantly alleviated the stress on both of us. The customization options provided by this application are particularly well-suited for an individual who is 26 years old, possesses reading, writing, and speaking abilities. I conducted extensive research to identify an application that would be user-friendly and intuitive for her skill levels. While she still encounters challenges, the application has been beneficial. There was an initial learning curve for her, but the search function and the ability to add words and folders for restaurant orders have proven invaluable. This functionality allows her to place orders without any hassle or concern. Thank you! I do wish there was a way to just buy this app instead of paying a subscription like Proloquo2Go. As we love the app just tired of Subscriptions

While I do think this app has potential, I am a blind user, and would find a text box option more useable than tapping words. I think both should be an option. When tapping on Keyboard, it does pop up the keyboard, and that is great, but it's not a text box. This would make writing a sentence or two much easier, then hitting "play" for it to speak. The in call intigration is insanely useful, hence why I like this app.

Trying to find a program that grows with my daughter’s widening vocabulary has been a tough one. I have found others similar to this but that have no training unless you purchase their device for 1000s of dollars. She currently uses proloquo2go and was offered a few months free. Within three hours ( after my correspondences were answered, which is one of the only advantages of this app) we knew this isn’t it either. There is no way to change to larger font or make the icons smaller (there are some who are transitions away from icons as they master their aac devices) , no way to change the contrast, and the font size in communication bar when in typing is near 10 size font. Not only is this difficult for the visually impaired but with no option to toggle to a different language already offered by proloquo2go, it’s not equitable . Along with the subscription model- which is a high cost even when you look at the yearly subscription versus the one time cost of others- state programs that offer funding will not accept this as this is a subscription. Even your 5 year subscription is a subscription, those of us who rely on state funding to help our children access their basic needs of communication are being pushed out of a new opportunity to expand their communication. However, in this case it has several limitations that aren’t addressed anywhere and fortunately this was a free month. Please look back at your design to make this better for all to use.