Er duikt meer en meer software op waarbij de iPad of een ander tablet gebruikt wordt om mensen die om een af andere reden moeilijker communiceren te helpen.

Nu is er bijvoorbeeld Proloquo2Go, een eerder prijzige app voor de iPad, die specifiek bedoeld is om kinderen die de diagnose kregen van autismespectrumstoornis te helpen met duidelijker communiceren met hun ouders en belangrijke taalvaardigheden aan te leren.

“Proloquo2Go is a new iPhone and iPad application that is designed to offer an easy communication platform for people who may have difficulty speaking. The app features natural sounding text-to-speech voices, language symbols and a default vocabulary of over 7,000 words. The current version has adult male/female and boy/girl voices and comes with North American English which can be updated to British English through the Proloquo2Go website.

The app allows the user to tap a series of symbols that are then placed into the message box, and the sentence is spoken by the chosen male or female voice. Users can even create and store regular sentences to their library for fast and easy access to commonly used phrases. Typed paragraphs can be automatically converted into symbols and all words are automatically linked to relevant conjugations, plurals or possessives.” (bron ReadWriteWeb)