Proloquo2Go and Speak For Yourself’s AAC apps have some key differences. Proloquo2Go offers extensive vocabulary and natural voices, making it ideal for early communication and motor planning. Speak For Yourself focuses on simplicity and ease of use, with features that support family sharing and easy parent modeling. In the table below, we’ll compare features like pricing, vocabulary, and ease of use to help you decide which AAC app is best for your needs.
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Proloquo2Go |
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| Good for Early Communication |
Speak For Yourself is extremely overwhelming for early communicators. The screen is complex and the symbols are often confusing.
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The Proloquo2Go app has a complex system that can be overwhelming for new and/or young AAC users.
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| Affordable Pricing |
Speak For Yourself is $299, with no free trial.
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Price: $249.99. There is a free trial. Proloquo2Go provides little ability to see if the AAC talker app is a good fit before having to invest. It also does not include any option for dedicated hardware. You have 2 weeks to request a refund if your kid doesn't like (impossibly short period of time to evaluate).
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| Easy to Get Started |
Out of the box, Speak For Yourself comes with an overwhelming learning process for care givers even before they can help their child or AAC user learn it for themselves.
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Estimated time of Proloquo2Go's basic set up is 3 or more hours. Proloquo does not expect parents to succeed unless they watch several hour long videos, read multiple blog articles, and review information in numerous links.
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| Behavior Supports |
No behavior centered features are built into the Speak For Yourself app.
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There are no behavior supports included, leaving mom and dad to seek such tools elsewhere.
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| Multiple Device Options |
Speak For Yourself is only offered on iOS devices as a downloadable app.
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The Proloquo app only works on IOS devices and does not offer a dedicated device for their app. This can be costly for users who have to buy expensive hardware just to use the app.
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| Easy Parent Modeling |
Parents can search for a word on the device to model the location and picture of the word
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While there is a search option on the user's proloquo app that walks through the navigational path, Pprents are left high and dry to learn where all the symbols are for themselves to effectively model it.
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| Incentives to Practice |
No incentives to learn the Speak For Yourself software are included.
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There is nothing included to encourage users to practice their talker, which is important for actually developing language skills.
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| Natural Voices and Language Availability |
While Speak For Yourself is offered in English, it is powered by CereProc's speech system that offers changes in pitch, speed, etc. for customization.
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Proloquo offers natural voices in dozens of languages and accents. Yet, the voices are much less natural-sounding than many other AAC talkers.
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| Customer Support |
Customer support is offered by phone or email.
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Only offers support via email and FAQ articles. Proloquo2Go does not give their customers live support.
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| Motor Planning |
This app teaches language solely through motor planning. However, while Speak For Yourself does not allow the location of words to change and the size of the screen to shift, the buttons are programmed in a very small size, making the screen overwhelming.
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Yes- and no. Although they have predictable word positions, Proloque allows users to move buttons around. This makes it hard for kids to remember where words are.
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| Simplicity of the Screen |
The size of the buttons and complexity of the screen is a challenge for most users, and it cannot be changed.
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Proloquo's extreme customization can make the talker complicated very quickly. The screen gets scrunched and buttons are often hard to find.
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| Safety and 9-1-1 Calling features |
Speak For Yourself is an app offering one function, so 9-1-1 calling is impossible on a dedicated device.
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Outside of using the talker to communicate that they are in trouble, Proloquo2Go offers no way to ensure your child’s safety.
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| Dedicated Device Option |
Speak For Yourself does not offer a dedicated device of their own. It is app-only.
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Proloquo2Go is only an app with no device included. The only way to get Proloquo2Go on a distraction-free device is to go through another company and pay for both services.
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| Communication With Spelling |
There is a keyboard functionality built in to Speak For Yourself to allow users to communicate any fringe words not already included.
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Proloquo allows users to type out unique words, a feature created mainly for older, more advanced AAC users.
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| Reminders to Practice |
No reminder features are included.
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No visual schedule features included. Remembering to practice AAC is solely on caregivers’ shoulders.
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| Image and Symbol Quality |
Speak For Yourself uses 11,000 Smarty symbols, but the symbols are often used in confusing ways, similar to Minspeak symbols that don't actually mean the word they represent.
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Uses SymbolStix, a library of symbols that revolve around stick people that mostly have no gender, age, etc. While simple, many symbols lack context and are not very clear. They are also not open source.
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| Fun Games to Build Skills |
Speak For Yourself does not have any skill-based games included.
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There are no games or strategies to improve finger dexterity included in Proloquo2Go's aac app.
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| Levels of Vocabulary |
While words can be hidden through an "open and close" feature, there are no easy step-by-step levels of vocabulary to make things simple at the beginning and leave room for growth over time.
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Proloquo2Go uses Crescendo vocabular, which offers three pre-programmed levels: Basic, Intermediate Core and Advanced Core levels. However, the preprogrammed levels are complicated to navigate and understand.
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| Care Team Access |
There is not a lot of functionality for inviting care team members like teachers into the process.
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There is no ability to share beyond the apple ID of the user. Teachers, other parents, therapists, etc. can not have direct access if they do not share the apple ID of the account.
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See why Goally’s AAC talker app is helping people communicate more effectively than other talker apps like Proloquo2Go or Speak For Yourself.
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