CommBoards - AAC Speech Assistant
When tapping on a series of pictures or a symbols, the created sentence is being read aloud, which in turn encourages oral speech and helps express thoughts and feelings, in the method of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
It can benefit people with Autism, Aspergers and other common conditions related to verbal self-expression.
After downloading CommBoards, no internet connection or mobile contract is necessary for continuous use. You can use CommBoards in almost any situation, like schools, hospitals, and even during flights.
CommBoards' image bank contains a rich collection of easy to understand imagery, as well as the option to add existing images from the device or take new photos with the device camera.
CommBoards is a feature-packed solution that includes:
Predefined communication boards :
• Eat - common foods
• Drink - common drinks
• Feel - happy, sad, angry, confused
• Play - common children toys and creativity items
• Say Hello To - mom, dad, grandparents
Features:
✔ High-quality imagery
✔ Unlimited creation of new categories with custom images and sounds
✔ Select images from our rich image bank
✔ Natural pronunciation of sounds and easy to understand images
✔ Associate photos to cells using the camera or use images from your gallery
✔ Record sounds using the microphone and associate it with any cell
✔ Pre-configured for kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Suitable for :
• Autism symptoms and Asperger syndrome
• Aphasia
• Speech Apraxia
• Articulation/phonological disorder
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
• Motor Neuron Disease (MND)
• Cerebral palsy
• Down syndrome
✔ Full support for multiple languages: English, Russian, Hebrew, Chinese and Spanish!
✔ Used by Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) all over the world
Category : Education
Reviews (29)
It has great potential, but is difficult to edit. When adding sub cells you can't get back to the main screen without exiting the app. The pre installed cells have a back arrow/button which returns you to the main screen however. It needs an easy way to add a back button within user created sub categories.
Very easy to update and navigate through! Took literally minutes to get it up and running for our son to use instantly when his communication device had been suddenly damaged...was unbelievably easy to understand how to tweak it as time went on too. Worth the low cost and then some. Very happy with the app!
for only $10 this is a great place to start. it's prefect for our needs with my 2 year old son as we can add our own pictures and voices. it is a bit buggy in that some times the pics only half add and it forces closed when I'm trying to edit it...but for $10 still good.
Glitchy..bought full version to customize and didn't save changes..went back to demo version and prompted me to buy full version..once I opened from play store my customized version opened..so isn't user friendly for the little guy I downloaded this app for
Difficult to move tiles around. Not a bad program, needs tweaking to be more user friendly.
Its a great tool but only draw back is the limited image gallery i wish they had a way to dowload some more tiles for ; help, hurt, direction, and so forth.
Support has been helpful but there are some issues they have not addresses. The app crashes when you add a pic front the camera.
After adding a new cell, you can not return to the home screen without re starting the app. There needs to be a way to add a back button. Shame, had great promise.
I have the full version and added some relevant words and phrases on my android tablet, but these additions do not show up when I open the app on my mobile phone. Surely I don't have to add them separately to my mobile phone app as well?
Looking good. Seems easy to use. I certainly will try and use it with some people I work with that have difficulty communicating.
my babygirl loves this app loves that it is in my voice instead of a computer voice its a excellent app for non verbal children an for only 9.99 you can have it for life
Ive searched all Androids Apps, this might be the one i need. But i wont hesitate to give a bad review if something goes bad.
Awesome app, customizable, can be used as voice bank.. you can change number of icons to use as different levels.
Is there a way to backup and restore files? I'd like to use everything I personalized on my multiple devices. Thanks.
My special kid loves this app. Through this he can communicate well with us. Thank you so much to the developer of this app!
Paid 20$ for an app that doesn't load well and freezes all the time.
A bit 'buggy' and wish there were additional voices but like that you can record your own.
An exellent dynamic application with intuitive graphic interface & personalization
Can't add back button, moving tiles is unresponsive.
This is A great simple AAC app for an autistic child.
Very glitchy while trying to edit settings
Rubish not even sent me the full version after i paid £18.49 for it so zero rating from me
Hard to add cells not user friendly
Needs more symbols, but pretty easy to use
Thank you problem lved. Easy to use and helpfull
good, cost effective screening tool
good app for non verbal kids
I am not able to put the back cell in a newly created category. Pls let me know how can we do it. Thanks
App controls are truly unintuitive. And then there's orientation On Galaxy Tab A the app does not change orientations (landscape to portrait) despite the orientation being unlocked (and other programs changing). Oh wait, sometimes it does, sometimes it does not. But only for 2 orientations, which leaves it upside down from my kids' standard tablet case. Also the pictures (when you create new items) show as tiny. Works much better on iPad. To add insult to injury every time I start it asks me to rate the app. So - this is my rating.