Pictello Visual Stories Reviews

We love PictelloVisualStories, it has been robust, and we have been using it daily everywhere for my non-verbal teenage son for more than 2 years (for activity schedules, photo albums he shares with peers, and almost everything we can think of). WHY DID YOU CHANGE THE COLOR OF THE BUTTONS? Since PictelloVisualStories update, we have to reteach PictelloVisualStories . My son stopped using the buttons because . the color scheme changed, and the forward/backward buttons are orange and less visually distinct. Don’t make things cutesy for this population!!! Any visual changes are a major change for people with cognitive and visual-processing differences. Don’t do it again. This time we’ll put the hours in to reteach it. Next time offer the option of retaining the old look and feel or accepting the changes with any updates your designers want to make.

PictelloVisualStories is not the quality I thought I was paying for

I love PictelloVisualStories. Very easy to use. I’ve made multiple social stories from potty training to playing on the playground- I love it! I also make a lot of “my favorites” stories. Recently I started having my son use it to make books for his drawings. Easy to use. Thank you!!!

As a school-based SLP, I use PictelloVisualStories all the time and have made sure that my district downloads it onto all of my students' personal IPads. A must have if you work with students who have autism or other NVLD.

PictelloVisualStories is wonderful and has so many uses for it. My special needs children use it all the time for social skills and as a story board when we are going somewhere :)

Awesome app! I have recommended PictelloVisualStories to 100% of my clients during consults/trainings with individuals that have unique challenges. I also demonstrate it at every workshop/ presentation that I do. Everyone loves the possibilities it holds….social stories, teaching tasks step by step, sharing with classmates and so much more!

I figured PictelloVisualStories. would rock given its from AssistiveWare but my son and I had a great time with it first time out. He is non verbal but has a lot to say and loves pictures. He enjoyed putting together his first "book" and showing it to anyone who would look, including his dog. :-) Awesome app!

We are a demo and loaner program in the State of Maine. We've loaded Pictello onto several iPads and iPold Touch devices. We have had numerous requests to borrow our devices from educators and SLPs. The ease of use for creation of social stories and talking books is amazing. Thanks to AssistiveWare for creating such a dynamic and easy to use application.

Very easy to use and create "stories". PictelloVisualStories allowed my 5 yr. old son with severe Apraxia to tell his class what he did over the weekend by himself on his IPad! I can also email his stories to his teacher and she can upload them onto his IPad at school. AssistiveWare also makes Proloquo2go that is fabulous for kids w/Apraxia. PictelloVisualStories is definately worth the price!!!!!

This is a very easy, intuitive app. We always put photos from our trips on the ipad. Now, it's easy for us to create a story about trips with PictelloVisualStories. We like the "Heather" voice. I'm thinking it might be a great app to do adapted stories for my daughter's language arts school work - may be easier than what I currently do with PPT. It would be awesome if down the road the text could be highlighted as it reads. That would be the icing on the cake!

Pictello is the easiest way to create talking picture books or social stories for a wide range of learners. The step by step Wizard mode is simple to follow for both staff and parents. The text to speech capabilities are great but the ability to add your own voice or that of your students is what makes this special. Having the ability to add your own pictures to personalize these stories is key for many of the students I work with. Nothing like a talking book about you! Great app and well worth the cost.

I am an SLP and mother to a 7-year-old with autism, and I use this all the time to write Social Stories for my daughter about places we will visit and things we will do. I love that I can write the stories on my iPad and very easily upload them to hers. It takes me an average of 10-20 minutes to do a story, depending on if I already have the pictures or need to go find them on Google. This has saved us a lot of money because I don't have to print the stories and laminate them anymore.

I am a Speech-Language Pathologist and I specialize in Augmentative and Alternative communication. I recommend PictelloVisualStories all the time for students to use for social stories/scripts as well as for "job coaching" where you can quickly lay out the steps of a task! I have tried many other book creation apps and always come back to PictelloVisualStories as my favorite because it is so easy to program and does everything I want it to do! The newest addition of the American kid voices is an excellent bonus feature that the developer added at no extra cost! Love it!

This is by far one of the most useful apps on the market for children and adults with special needs. In fact, all children can benefit from PictelloVisualStories. I have recommended PictelloVisualStories to typical preschool teachers for those difficult to learn rules like "waiting in line", "keeping hands to yourself", etc...all the way to using with severely impaired adults on independent living skills like, "washing your hair" and "brushing your teeth."

Super simple to navigate and LOVE the ability to share stories between multiple pictello users. This makes for an extremely functional social story app. HIGHLY recommend.

My son who is in middle school loves to use this to share with friends, we've made stories about camping trips, going to lake, cousins visiting. The most popular one is "kids at school". His peers love to see pics of themselves and he loves that they want to. My son has some cognitive deficits and can not build the stories himself, it only takes me about 5 minutes to make him an 8 to 10 page story. PictelloVisualStories is easy to use "on the fly"if you have an iPad 2. The additional step of importing pics into an iPad 1 does deter me from using it on that device (we have both iPads ). PictelloVisualStories is reasonably glitch free and I highly recommend it.

I have a very bright, but severely physically handicapped daughter who loves to read and loves to tell stories. With Pictello, Nichole can share her favorite stories by taking the pictures she collects and adding the way she wants to talk about them into telling a story. It gives her voice and the ability to share her most favorite stories and events over and over.

We have also used it to show people the power of social stories and scripting difficult situations with excellent results.

Whether used as a talking photo album, a photo blog, or one of many educational purposes, this is a great app!

My son is 19 and has Autism, non-verbal. This is a terrific way for him to now have a picture schedule for each day of the week. The technology is easy to use just as with Assistiveware's Proloquo2Go. Pictello allows me to create his schedule just as you would a story so he know exactly what he will do from the moment he gets up until the moment he goes to bed. In addition we can now create outing stories for him to share with his peers at school, he is the only non-verbal in his class. I have already set up Proloquo2go to facilitate two-way-conversation so now a story book for him to share is great! No more velcro pictures for this house! This is the way of the future! Love this product!!!

I have over 600 apps on my iTunes account and this is hands down my favorite! I have a twenty year old son who has autism and I work with many students who have special needs from prek to age 21 post high school. PictelloVisualStories is great for receptive learning. It can be used to make talking storybooks, social stories also for teaching skills step by step. It can also be used expressively as a tool for writing as it allows students to pair their writing with a visual. It also allows written output to be broken into smaller more manageable chunks. An added benifit is students can work on reading fluency when they record their stories . It is a great tool for individuals who ate non verbal to relate experiential stories to share on a social level. We have also used PictelloVisualStories for vocabulary development making talking flashcards. There are so many good uses for PictelloVisualStories I could go on and on. A must have app if you are a teacher!!!

We were already so in love with PictelloVisualStories…and then it happened, now you can add videos! We love it because it is so easy to use for myself and for my very highly impacted, nonverbal 11 yr old with autism. She never had any interest before of looking at pictures of her family or of social stories, I just don't think she saw the need. Now, after putting family albums and some motivating stories about her fav foods, she's hooked!:) I thought she'd only want to look at certain ones, but she goes through them all, over and over, even the social stories, like Going to the Dentist! I'm amazed at her response and so pleased! But now, with videos, when I added videos of her bowling to her story about her very first time bowling and of her playing in the water at the beach, I can't even describe her face! She grinned from ear to ear and then was just giddy! Now, that is priceless!!

So I found your app, and then on 2/5/2020, I came up with an idea! I decided to make Education For US Money! It took probably 30 minutes to make! My mom paid $18.99! While PictelloVisualStories was downloading I was using the camera to take pictures for it it was amazing! I could probably educate kids about money now a days! Just great. I mean seriously!