AssistiveWare Releases Proloquo2Go 1.0

AssistiveWare has announced the release of Proloquo2Go for iPhone and iPod touch. Proloquo2Go is the first full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking not costing thousands of dollars. Finally, powerful augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) comes within reach of consumers and schools without access to funding. Never before was using a communication device so portable and so cool as with Proloquo2Go and the iPhone or iPod touch. Proloquo2Go is a true break-through in price and technology, bringing natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.

Proloquo2Go is a perfect solution for anyone who cannot afford spending thousands of dollars on an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device and yet wants a solution that in terms of sheer communication power and ease of use rivals solutions typically priced over 10 times as high. It is also perfect for teenagers and young adults who want a device as cool as the iPhone or iPod touch. Not to mention, this a great solution for children and adults with autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, developmental disabilities, or apraxia. Proloquo2Go can also serve adults with acquired disabilities such as ALS, stroke or traumatic brain injury. It can be a useful solution in hospital and rehabilitation settings.

"The price is so compelling," said Dan Herlihy, owner of Connective Technology Solutions, "and the software and hardware platform Proloquo2Go runs on so radically improved over current devices in its category that if not quite a paradigm shift, markedly raises the bar for accessibility, ease of use, and affordability."

Special educators, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists have found Proloquo2Go a proven communication solution for children and adults who can access the iPod and iPhone touch interface. Educators see it as a cost-effective solution for special education. Speech therapists and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) specialists love the ease of programming and customization. Users love Proloquo2Go because it is not only powerful, but it runs on the iPhone and iPod touch. Parents appreciate the system because it is easy to program and makes their children cool. Proloquo2Go can be used as a companion to a table top device or as a user's sole AAC device.


"When we set out to design Proloquo2Go we knew we wanted to provide the kind of power typically only found in desktop applications," said David Niemeijer, AssistiveWare's CEO. "The iPhone has allowed us to do just that, develop a full-featured, fully customizable communication solution that fits right in your pocket."

Proloquo2Go uses Acapela Group's state-of-the-art Text-to-Speech voices. The current version includes North American English male, female, girl and boy voices. British English voices will soon be available as an option. Support for other languages and voices is in the pipeline. Proloquo2Go provides the innovative, new VocaSpace vocabulary that is build on an extremely flexible organizational system and includes close to 8000 symbols from SymbolStix LLC. Conjugation support is provided through Ultralingua's Grammatica technology.

Key features:
* Full communication solution with a default vocabulary of over 7000 items
* Choice of list or grid view
* Built-in natural sounding text-to-speech voices (one language, initially only American English)
* Picture and/or text-based communication
* Close to 8000 built-in symbols
* Automatic conjugation of verbs and automatic plurals and possessives for nouns
* Extensive customization options: item size, color, interactivity, restrictions, speech.
* One button addition of new vocabulary items and categories
* Easy cut, copy and paste of items
* Quick access to recently spoken items for the last 15 minutes, last hour, all the way up to one week back
* Typing view for typing full paragraphs

For more information, screen shots, tutorials and videos visit the product site. For further information contact AssistiveWare directly or one of our partners such as Origin Instruments Corporation for North America or Spectronics for Australia and New Zealand.


Pricing and Availability:
Proloquo2Go is available on the App Store for an introductory price of $149.99 (USD) or Euro 109.99. After a few weeks the price will be $199.99 or Euro 149.99.


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