iConverse App: Augmentative Alternative Communication Tool

Author: Ian C. Langtree - View Credentials
Published: 25 Feb 2011 - Updated: 31 May 2022

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Synopsis - Overview - Related Content

Synopsis

iConverse app is an educational tool for young children autistic individuals and persons with other communicative disabilities.

Overview

iConverse is an educational tool designed for young children, autistic individuals, and individuals with other communicative disabilities, as well as toddler-aged children who have yet to master language.

iConverse replaces bulky and expensive communication devices used in the past and gives users the ability to carry an AAC device in their pocket creating a means of communication that is appropriate, effective, and discreet.

iConverse currently comes with 6 built in communication tiles that represent a person's most basic needs. When activated by touch, the icons give both an auditory and visual representation of the specific need or want. Go beyond the built-in 6 and create your own! Use the built-in text-to-speech engine, or record your voice!

iConverse allows parents, teachers, and the public to understand the basic wants and needs of individuals who are unable to verbally communicate. This application breaks down the barriers of communication for special needs individuals or children who have not yet mastered language. iConverse replaces bulky and expensive communication devices and provides freedom from a communication book of individual printed icons. Everyone involved in an individual's life will never have to guess what their wants and needs are again.

iConverse App Offers:

• Ability to make custom icons with pictures.
• Male or female voice for the common needs
• Visual display of illustrated "iConverse" icon.
• 6 touchable, color, easy to understand icons.
• Add text to the pictures to enable text to audio.
• Visual display of custom icons with scrolling ability.
• Audible sentence stating the icon that was touched.
• Visual display of text when specific icon is touched.
• Audible sentence stating the icon that was touched.
• 6 icons displaying basic everyday needs: Bathroom, Drink, Food, Sick, Break and Help.

Author Credentials: Ian C. Langtree is a writer, editor, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Disabled World, which he established in 2004 as one of the longest-running independent resources for disability news and information. Over more than two decades, he has written and edited thousands of articles on disability rights, health, accessibility, and assistive technology. Drawing on a global perspective shaped by extensive travel and lived experience, Ian is a committed advocate of the Social Model of Disability, the framework developed by disabled activists in the 1970s that focuses on removing societal barriers rather than on individual impairments. His writing is grounded in that framework and in a lasting commitment to disability rights, accessibility, and social inclusion. To learn more about Ian's background, expertise, and accomplishments, visit his full biography.