TouchChat HD AAC w WordPower Reviews

When the new update happened I lost everything now everything is locked and I can’t do anything

I accidentally purchased TouchChatHDAACwWordPower on my phone and we need it on our sons tablet who is non verbal we emailed with no assistance on how we can either get our money back so we can purchase it on the tablet. Would like someone to actually reach out to us I emailed a week ago!!

I was thrilled when I found TouchChatHDAACwWordPower in its original version. I work with many students with a wide variety of disabilities and the ease of use of TouchChatHDAACwWordPower was very appealing. Because it is such an intuitive software, I recommended it to a number of families. I have been very disappointed in the current version. It freezes or crashes frequently and often does not respond to touch. The improvements in vocabulary and editability are promising but I'm having a hard time testing them out. I hope these problems can be worked out, or, can I return to the original version?

Latest update is causing glitches in TouchChatHDAACwWordPower . Program freezing, and going to blank pages. Happening on multiples versions of IOS

Please fix the glitches from the newest update! Screen freezes and then turns blank. My son relies on TouchChatHDAACwWordPower for communication and this is incredibly frustrating!

With the latest update unable to use program when picking pictures no longer jumps to the pages and there is no sound I have tested the voice under page editor that work unable to find troubleshooting under help page HELP PLEASE

TouchChatHDAACwWordPower is fine. I use it on the recommendation of my speech therapist. I started out with the free trial, then upgraded to the full $300 version. However, it downloaded a whole new program when I got the full version and I don’t see a way to transfer my custom vocabulary to the new app. That’s very frustrating that I am starting over from scratch now. It also appears that if I switch vocabularies (like to a larger grid, for instance) I will have to re-customize everything AGAIN.
If there were more compatibility feature, I would give it a higher rating.

Has anyone else lost sound?

After this latest round of iOS operating system updates we have NO sound. It is only the TouchChat app that has been affected.

We have been using this for about 2 years with our son, who is non verbal. It is way better then the PECS system we were using, because he was constantly chewing those up or throwing them away. I also like how customizable it is, I have been able to build in screen shots for all of his tv shows and episodes using the camera. However, I do think it would be a marvelous thing if TouchChatHDAACwWordPower included a more diverse range of skin tone colors on their representations of faces, body parts, etc. All of the generic forms not specific to a known celebrity are apricot colored. My son has beautiful brown skin. Non verbal children are a diverse group, and I think stick figure renderings don't take up much storage space, and can easily be colored in with more then one shade. I think children tend to feel marginalized when they do not see images that reflect them, and special needs kiddos are already a group at risk for feeling and being marginalized. It is also pretty frustrating that if your kiddo accidentally touches the "back" bar, it repeats every single thing requested since it was last cleared. It can really disrupt and disorient a kiddo with sensory issues. And for my son, who struggles with fine motor, he accidentally bumps it a fair bit. His aim is not always as precise as he would like, but it is getting better all the time... Just not enough to save us from back bar issues. Otherwise we LOVE how TouchChatHDAACwWordPower has improved his quality of life and his ability to tell us what he wants and to feel heard. And despite the monochrome skin tone, there is a decent range of object drawings, etc.

I like using. It’s useful as I cannot talk but since the last update the interrupt function has stopped working. So if you accidentally hit the speak button or speech display bar a second time you and whoever you are with has to listen to the whole message again. You can hit the home button and close TouchChatHDAACwWordPower but then when you come back to TouchChatHDAACwWordPower it will continue what it did not finish. Can you bring back the interrupt?

TouchChat with word power is versatile and very intuitive. Every single teacher of students using it love it because it is easy to find icon locations and very little programming is needed because the vocabulary layout mimics naturally occurring speech. So much easier to use than Proloquo2Go. My students are initiating so much more communication with TouchChat.

I love TouchChatHDAACwWordPower for my son. However, I am experiencing glitches with the program freezing and not responding to touch. Also screen goes blank. Please fix ASAP so we all can continue to communicate with our loved ones, thank you! (We have app installed on newest 2019 iPad)

We love TouchChatHDAACwWordPower , gave our son a voice. However, the word prediction is not working after latest update.

TouchChatHDAACwWordPower is great, as it gives my daughter a voice. A problem we’ve been experiencing recently is that when Guided Access is used, the entire app freezes and her voice no longer works, nor can she move from page to page. When out of Guided access TouchChatHDAACwWordPower works fine. If Guided Access is not used, she goes to other apps and doesn’t use her AAC device appropriately (as she doesn’t understand that her AAC is only meant to be used for communicating). Any help would be appreciated!

Wow i remember this I had this on my old iPad before my dad gave it to the Apple Store cause it couldn’t be fixed such memories

My son has apraxia of speech and since getting TouchChatHDAACwWordPower his literacy skills have blossomed incredibly. I highly recommend TouchChatHDAACwWordPower. It’s super easy to use.

Thanks for creating such a wonderful app. This is indispensable for any non-verbal person. Please consider making the orange bar disappear or thinner for those who want to hide the [Vocab] and [Menu] buttons. The bar occupies valuable real estate, especially for those using TouchChatHDAACwWordPower on an iPhone. Also, the Real Language logging icon is distracting as it takes up too much space on the speech display area. Please make it smaller.

my doctor said it’s will be a good app and it’s is i been using it for 3 years now and i love how it’s works with my doctor ipad really good it’s my now but it’s so helpful thxs.

I was inspired to buy this program after recently attending a seminar given by an ASD researcher who explained the necessity to teach children CORE vocabulary, rather than just FRINGE words (people, places, things).

After 2 weeks of use, I can tell you I am so thankful to have TouchChat with WordPower to assist my 9 year old less-verbal autistic boy. He is learning to build complete sentences, making stronger associations between verbal and visual word, and gaining in self confidence when ordering food items from strangers.

Although we did experience a volume mute bug, I was able to resolve it by following online guidance to reset the “general settings” of the device.

TouchChatHDAACwWordPower gets Five Stars for WordPower 108.

Our son is non-verbal, and has limited fine motor skills. We started teaching him to communicate with pecs cards. However as his vocabulary grew, his binder became too large to carry everywhere.

We tried several different AAC applications, and found our son likes TouchChat the best. When testing with another application, our son realized his device was unlocked and actually changed his app back to TouchChat.

We love TouchChat because it’s very user friendly, plus they have a lot of guides on their website.