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communication abilities. Its creative components support children, parents, trainers, and
specialists to quickly customize the vocabulary and settings. Proloquo2Go is used by individuals with ASD, Down’s syndrome, and cerebral paralysis, and different other sufferers.
It is accessible in English, French, and Spanish, including provincial and bilingual support.
It has three levels: Basic Communication, Intermediate Core, and Advanced Core. It helps
to enhance the language skills and vocabulary of the autistic or mental disorder children.
14.1.8.6 Pictello: Talking Visual Story Creator
Everybody loves to tell the fun and innovative stories (Goldthwait 2016). Pictello helps
make a social story, visual timetable, or a slideshow of different occasion pictures for an
autistic child. It provides a breeze to make and share all these stuff with the child. This app
allows to record one’s own voice or may use natural text to speech voices, and it is an ideal
app for visual narration. Every page in a Pictello as presented in Figure 14.27 shows a story
that comprises a photograph or video and some content, and it can be read thoroughly.
So anyone might hear by a Text to Speech voice or your own recorded sounds. The child
can communicate by transforming pictures and recording videos into talking story books
with Pictello.
Pictello helps to create the proficiency as follows:
• Support reading with word-by-word content highlighting.
• Develop composing and spelling with implicit word expectation and Speak.
• Create stories to show educational and social attitudes.
• Play stories page by page or as a slideshow.
• Use text to speech voices to pay particular attention to the story.
FIGURE 14.26
Proloquo2Go. (From Tzvi, iPrompts ® PRO on the App Store, Handhold Adaptive, 2011, Available from: http://
www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2011/02/16/seven-scheduling-behavioral-apps-for-children-with-specialneeds/ [Accessed 23 October 2016]. With permission.)
Internet of Things (IoT)
communication abilities. Its creative components support children, parents, trainers, and
specialists to quickly customize the vocabulary and settings. Proloquo2Go is used by individuals with ASD, Down’s syndrome, and cerebral paralysis, and different other sufferers.
It is accessible in English, French, and Spanish, including provincial and bilingual support.
It has three levels: Basic Communication, Intermediate Core, and Advanced Core. It helps
to enhance the language skills and vocabulary of the autistic or mental disorder children.
14.1.8.6 Pictello: Talking Visual Story Creator
Everybody loves to tell the fun and innovative stories (Goldthwait 2016). Pictello helps
make a social story, visual timetable, or a slideshow of different occasion pictures for an
autistic child. It provides a breeze to make and share all these stuff with the child. This app
allows to record one’s own voice or may use natural text to speech voices, and it is an ideal
app for visual narration. Every page in a Pictello as presented in Figure 14.27 shows a story
that comprises a photograph or video and some content, and it can be read thoroughly.
So anyone might hear by a Text to Speech voice or your own recorded sounds. The child
can communicate by transforming pictures and recording videos into talking story books
with Pictello.
Pictello helps to create the proficiency as follows:
• Support reading with word-by-word content highlighting.
• Develop composing and spelling with implicit word expectation and Speak.
• Create stories to show educational and social attitudes.
• Play stories page by page or as a slideshow.
• Use text to speech voices to pay particular attention to the story.
FIGURE 14.26
Proloquo2Go. (From Tzvi, iPrompts ® PRO on the App Store, Handhold Adaptive, 2011, Available from: http://
www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2011/02/16/seven-scheduling-behavioral-apps-for-children-with-specialneeds/ [Accessed 23 October 2016]. With permission.)