New App Turns iDevice into Communications Board for Those with Disabilities 1 comment
AbleNet has launched SoundingBoard, an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad app to help those with disabilities communicate. The app basically turns the iDevice into a customizable communications board.
From the press release:
SoundingBoard holds many possibilities. For example, teachers can use the application to quickly create an exam to test comprehension. Older students moving into the work environment can use SoundingBoard to communicate with their new employer and work team members. Patients in a hospital or a dentist office can use SoundingBoard to communicate with their caregivers when they are temporarily unable to speak.
Additional features include:
- Hundreds of pre-loaded AbleNet symbols for nearly every common situation—choose symbols, record the associated message and create a communication board in under two minutes
- Ability to use photos from your own device library—easily customize communication boards to each unique situation
- Take a photo on the iPhone or the new iPod Touch to use with SoundingBoard immediately—adapt quickly to new situations in the classroom, workplace or community
SoundingBoard is the newest member of a long line of communication devices from AbleNet. Millions of people worldwide with a variety of medical and developmental conditions use AbleNet’s Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) products. This new device will benefit a wide range of disabilities, from children with developmental language disorders, to individuals with severe physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, to people living with the effects of a stroke.
SoundingBoard is available from iTunes. It looks like a good tool, but is rather pricey at $49.99.
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