Finally getting closer to the end of these reviews! This one is TD Snap, formerly known as Tobii Dynavox’s Snap Core First.

Snap was one of the first symbol-based, high tech AAC programs I ever used - so I was excited to see this one on the trial device.
I eventually switched over to Proloquo2Go (which is the last one I’ll be showing from the original reviews!), but there’s a few features from Snap that I still use to supplement as well!

There’s a lot of different things I like about the app, but I really like how robust the vocabulary is! There’s a good mix of both children’s related things and adult things, and it can be tailored to what the AAC user themselves prefer.
Having access to all the language can be incredibly important, because you never know when a word might come up in conversation! It’s pretty customizable; I ended up changing up the main core board considerably after doing this review.

TD Snap also has a nice feature called QuickFires where you can tap it and it automatically talks for you, as well as another feature called Topics. Topics has different pre-programmed sentences for various subjects, which comes in handy!

I’m also really fond of the dry erase board function, the photo album feature, and the visual schedule section in the aphasia board! These things are huge for me, and make the app worth it. I also have a neurocognitive disorder along with the traumatic brain injuries, aphasia, and being autistic - so my memory isn’t always the greatest. Having those supports is helpful!

I do wish the voice customization was a little better, though. You can change the speech rate, but not necessarily the pitch.

✨As an important side note:
- Snap also comes with “supports” for things like scripts and visual schedules, but please use this only as a way to help support someone - not as a behavior management/compliance tool. AAC is our way to communicate, and it’s our voice. Don’t use our own voice as a way to do that.

If you try to turn AAC into a behavior/compliance tool or make it into simply another chore, we will learn to hate it. Augmentative and alternative communication can be a beautiful way to access the world around us. It’s like an entire language. Don’t take the joy out of that!

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