aBoard - CAA (AAC) on Windows Pc

The aboard (or in Portuguese "Assistive Board") is a communication application Augmentative and Alternative (CAA) for tablet whose differential is its ability to give suggestions to streamline the production of meaningful sentences.
research project fruit Assistive (http://assistive.cin.ufpe.br/), the ABOARD is geared to individuals who have deficiency in gestural, oral and / or written, and you can also use it as a tool support for inclusive education and therapies such as PECS.
The aboard is 100% free and was financed with funds from the federal government (CNPq and CAPES).
A Aboard the use of tutorial is available at: http://assistive.cin.ufpe.br/aboard-app/_intro/Tutorial_aBoard.pdf

Aboard the main features are:

- 100% free. Use Aboard does not require any payment to be used fully;

- Comes with a vocabulary ready for use. Setting this vocabulary is based on scientific studies and aims to cover the most frequently used words to a functional communication;

- Organize vocabulary in categories and subcategories. This organization allows to develop abstract thinking from concepts of generalizations (eg. "CAKE" is a "FOOD" which, in turn, is a "FOOD") and reduce the time to locate what you want to communicate (eg. to enter in the "FOOD", no time is wasted with inedible things);

- Allows you to request suggestions for speeding up the production of meaningful sentences. For example, for "Cake" it is possible to have automatic suggestions like "EAT", "WANT", "YUMMY" and "Bad";

- Can be used on different Android devices. The application automatically adapts to the size and resolution of the most mobile screen;

- Can work without Internet. The connection is only required to download a new vocabulary;

- Allows you to exclude specific elements of the sentence or the whole sentence, giving more flexibility to the phrase production activity;

- Lets talk specific elements of the sentence or the whole sentence, making it possible to reinforce the speech isolated from each element as well as communicate the whole sentence;

- Allows you to increase or reduce edit vocabulary from aboard Editor System (http://assistive.cin.ufpe.br/editor). The Aboard Editor is the Web system that must be used to customize the vocabulary aboard as needed by the user;

- It has a menu for quick responses that allows at any time of the phrase production, to respond rapidly to "YES", "NO", "PLEASE", "THANK YOU", "sorry", "HELP", "STOP" or "CONTINUE" without interfering with the production of the sentence;

- It has a navigation bar that lets you go back to a previous category without having to go to the Home screen. For example, considering the categorization HOME> FOOD> FOOD, you can go directly to the category "FOOD", without having to go to the Home screen ( "HOME");

- Allows scrolling to view all the elements of a category. When the category has more than 10 elements, you can scroll directly with your hand or buttons to display the other elements that make up the category.

- Makes use of pictograms ARASAAC (Author pictograms: Sergio Palao Procedencia: ARASAAC (http://catedu.es/arasaac/) License: CC (BY-NC-SA));
 
Keywords: Assistive Technology, Communication Augmentative and Alternative Communication Alternative Augmentative Communication, Autism, Autism, ASD, Cerebral Palsy, PC, Down syndrome, aphasia, apraxia, ALS, ALS, sequelae of stroke / AVE, Trauma Brain Injury, Trauma Mouth, Trauma at the Larynx

aBoard agora pode ser utilizado nas seguintes linguas:
Portugues, Espanhol, Catalão e Inglês

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