Sono Flex
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $99.99 | Tobii Dynavox LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Sono Flex combines the benefits of structure and flexibility, providing a framework for language development, quickly matching individual and situational communication needs.
Tobii Sono Flex has been designed to be easy to operate and easy for SLPs, teachers, parents, caregivers or other communication partners to setup and customize.
--- Version and pricing ---
Tobii Sono Flex is a universal application available for iPhone, iPod and iPad. Users need only to buy the application once to run it on either device.
Tobii Sono Flex is also available in a slightly limited, but fully functioning evaluation version called Tobii Sono Flex Lite.
Educational institutions are eligible for a 50% Educational Discounts through Apple’s Volume Licensing Program for Education when buying more than 20 licenses (currently only available in the USA). Please contact your local Tobii representative for more information.
--- Some of the features of Tobii Sono Flex ---
- Combines core and topic-based vocabulary in a unique and dynamic way
- Provides an easy, and highly motivating, start with over 50 pre-made context vocabularies
- Comes with more than 11,000 SymbolStix® symbols
- Use the camera and photo albums of the iPhone or iPad to create your own symbols
- Comes with 5 US English, high quality Acapela voices; one boy, one girl, two women and one male voice.
- Offers a solid structure to build up a large common vocabulary and enables versatile communication
- Great flexibility in tailoring the vocabulary to individual and situational needs
- Develop within Tobii Sono Flex, into other Sono Suite products or even switch hardware platforms
- Tobii Sono Flex is available for iPhone, iPod, iPad and on regular PCs and dedicated speech devices running Tobii Communicator.
Read more on www.tobiisonoflex.com or www.tobii.com
--- Read what others say about Sono Flex ---
"Awesome, awesome, awesome! I wonder why it hasn’t been developed before. It is great to have the situational modules at hand so easily. This is just perfect for us to prepare sessions with clients with a minimum of time consumption. It is really nice that you have chosen very interactive and playful contexts that are age independent."
Alycia Berg, MS, CCC-SLP, Boston Children’s Hospital
"I have to say, I really like Sono Flex. I believe that the control that a user has over it is going to be very helpful and prove to be successful over other currently available products where one can just flip through screens without having access to a full communication system that supports interaction.
I really love the Context-based pages. It is great that you include phrases in these as well for quick interactions that are specific to the context-based pages. Glad to see About Me as a context page.
The way you can swap out context-based pages is really brilliant and helps to expand the communication opportunities without increasing the navigation demands."
Judy Lariviere, M.Ed., OTR/L, Communication Specialist, Rett Clinic, Oakland Children’s Hospital
"Looks good. I like the way the vocab is laid out and you can change one bottom bar it’s possibly the fastest way of changing vocab I have seen."
Will Wade, Lead Occupational Therapist at Kent Communication and Assistive Technology Service, Researcher at Oxford Brookes University, Operator of Apps for AAC website
"I love the vocabulary and the mix of core words and situations.
What I like: Layout of pages; no vertical scroll; grammar feature; situations, situations, situations. Editing is very different, but once I got used to it I liked it (I like to see the whole page as a list, that is cool)."
Kate Ahern, M.S.Ed., AT Specialist and Operator of ‘Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs’ Blog
Reviews
Awesome AAC App!
CosmicGoddess
I’m an Autistic person who uses this app when under extreme stress. More importantly, I introduced the lite version to my cousin, who is nonspeaking, Autistic, and has intellectual disability, some months ago, and went ahead and purchased the full version because it’s that great. It’s very intuitive for both of us and through it, he has expressed things he’s never before been able to. The only complaint I have about this app is that editing pages is tedious and can rearrange things too much if you’re not careful, which impacts motor planning. Otherwise, I love Sono Flex and would recommend it for anyone who needs a relatively-inexpensive AAC solution.
Wonderful!
AAC Girl
This app is reflective of excellent research by a world renowned company called Tobii ATI. It is very user-friendly and is color coded according to the Fitzgerald Key, which is also world-renowned in the field of AAC. This app features five Acapela voices, which are very pleasant to the ear. One can also important photos from the photo folder on one's iOS device in a very easy manner. Well done, Tobii, and thank you for the introductory price on the first day of its debut! Get it today if you can!
Full version...it's about time.
Julesyiop
I am so excited the full version was released! Great voices! So easy to speak full sentences and organize my new voice. The quick phrases are so easy and quick to find. Can't wait to see sono flex on the C8. Thanks Tobii!
Great app
bombastic girl
It's really great, I'd like the to be able to delete history and it would be awesome if you also can do TV out!
GREAT just needs a couple things
DT,OT
This is well thought out, it would be nice however, to be able to get ahold of an actual person for info, suggestions, etc. I would like to be able to turn off the long press to edit, but don't see a way to do this. Some users will accidentally press too long and will go to edit mode. Would love to be able to have a scanning feature as well.
Good but could be great with a few tweaks!
Teacher Tracey
Sono flex is well organized and has many great boards for different themes. The quick phrase feature is very handy. It can be easily programmed with additional buttons and has features to choose the part of speech to be added into the Fitzgerald keyboard arrangement. This app could move to being great if it had the option of speaking as each button is pressed. In the current version, one puts in a phrase by pressing any number of buttons but it does not speak each word while it is entered. it only speaks the completed phrase after touching a separate area. The quick phrase page is the only one to speak an entire phrase immediately when a button is pushed.
Wow! We love this AAC app!
specialappssk
I am the mom of a child with high functioning autism. My son suffers from anxiety, and often will not or cannot tell us what is wrong. This is helping us figure out what is wrong. I am also a speech pathology assistant and have tested out many communication apps. Sono Flex has a spot on our front page because it is excellent. It has a handy manual which made it easy for me to program too, which is very important to me. The color coding is fantastic, the voices are easy to understand! The history tab is wonderful! I would love to see a qwerty board though, as that is what my son is used to for typing. This app is right up there with the big price tag AAC apps like Proloquo2Go. As a mom and an educator, I am VERY happy to see a high quality communication app at $99. Please keep it this way to help give voices to more children and adults who need help communicating.
liked very much
mrs> B
Love the color coding the large amount of pre made boards- would like easier editing mode. Also would like a way to make the buttons speak immediately when you tap them- the message window is a bit much for some of my students
Great AAC app!
Dinkrea
I am the mother of a special needs 3 year old with neurofibromatosis, apraxia of speech and suspected aspberger's. He is mostly non-verbal due. However, after using SonoFlex Lite for a little while, we noticed that he was extremely interested in the app. Unlike other AAC apps that we tried, this one held his interests. Now that we have the full version, he's actually been communicating with us. It's only his name and age right now, but it's more than we ever though we'd get. SonoFlex is so easy to use, and the ability to change the expressions to use familiar pictures is amazing. Thanks!
