Advocated for PLQ for her because at the time I wasn't so familiar with LAMP when I started with her at age 14. Literate but with lots of trouble spelling/decoding (can write & combine words in novel ways if given words to look at but if given a random dictated word can get the gist but not too accurate). Hard to gauge her receptive language formally but most likely in the moderate to severe impairment range. PLQ user: currently16 yo female Spanish/English bilingual, autism diagnosis, some verbal communication but highly unintelligible, lots of processing-type echolalia but can generate output if given options/input. I currently have two high school students, both of whom started relatively recently with AAC devices, one LAMP user and one ProLoQuo user. I think it focuses on core language, and the major word classes / parts of speech are color coded, and the option for typing text is available too. They just take to it.Īlso, as others mentioned with the Nova Chat, there is also the Word Power add-on that a lot of the SLPs I worked with loved. The semantic compaction on Minspeak/Unity doesn’t make logical sense for us in terms of categorical thinking but once they learn the motor plan, it’s like texting. I was at a workshop for LAMP a few years ago, and one of the things he stressed was:Ī) Kids can generally handle more spaces on the grid than you give them credit forī) the pictures have very little to do with it. Think if you woke up one day and someone moved all the apps on your home screen around, but your muscle memory remembered them elsewhere. As stated before, part of the premise with LAMP is the motor plan I g aspect. SLP Grad student with background knowledge in AAC. It costs almost as much as an Accent but you can possibly get it funded. PRC has an ipad with LAMP that is configured and approved as a durable device. Pretty much all of the apps mentioned have word prediction to assist with spelling. I love LAMP but it can take a good amount of time for even proficient users to get out all the information needed. We ended up programming a lot of phrase based pages for safety and quick communication (calling bus station to schedule a pick up, that sort of thing), something that was much easier in pretty much any of the TouchChat users. One of my old coworkers specifically worked with post secondary students and programming LAMP to fit student's needs out in the community was extremely difficult. They've got a bit of motor planning involved (a lot of the core vocab stays in the same place when you go to fringe pages) which I prefer but also allow you to build off phrases. Their wordpower users are great, as are the multi chats.
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What I've found is a good mix of the two is TouchChat HD. Proloquo has some pretty decent users now but it is still such a pain to program. I personally prefer LAMP over Proloquo but of course what is best for our clients is not always what we're comfortable with. Please, AAC gurus and those with experience with both software, what are your pros and cons of both PLQ2G and LAMP with Accent 1000?Īlso, I know an iPad isn’t considered a “medically durable device”- any comments (or rebuttals) on this?
However, this is an “older” student, not an early literacy learner. I have another student currently using PLQ2G, and honestly I’m not overly impressed. Another option (which my Special Ed Director bought up) is ProLoQuo2Go. I completed a (free) device feature matching questionnaire, and my first choice is the Accent 1000 with LAMP (which I admittedly do not know much about). She can work an iPad, but she struggles with spelling. She has (comparatively) good receptive language. Since she is doing a work-based program out of our district, and continues to qualify for services on her IEP, the team’s main concern is safety in situations where she doesn’t know her communication partner/environment, and any of the above situations where she cannot communicate effectively. She has high palatial arch, non-phoneme specific nasal emissions, and just general low speech intelligibility. This student doesn’t have a solid dx it doesn’t fall into any known syndromes but doctors report it does have a genetic basis. My student is 19, severe-profound DCD, some verbal speech which is often severely negated when she is with unfamiliar speakers/environments, low motivation to communicate, and overall low speech intelligibility due to anatomical and functional differences. I’m going into a meeting this week to discuss AAC needs with one of my students.