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Tobii Sono Flex is an easy to use AAC vocabulary app that turns symbols into clear speech. It offers language to nonverbal users who are not yet in full control of literacy.
Category Price Seller Device
Education Free 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

Tobii Sono Flex New Version Is Now On iOS 11-15
Damacus9 Productions

[My iPhone X Can’t Get To iOS 15]


my best friend uses this! its great!
MotoMoto2020

my friend Xavier uses this app because he cant talk. it is very good for him to use his communication skills. thank you!


Can’t edit/personalize
Skylar.Andie

Limited to system vocabulary and images.


Disappointed
kwhsicnejakcbwoMndsk

I was hoping this would work for communicating with my students but it is difficult to us and on my iPhone XS the icons at the top are cut off and not functional. Seems like it would be good if it did what it was supposed to and were more user friendly.


The greatest communication app ever
Julesyiop

I love this app! This is so easy to use and learn how to communication with. In a matter of seconds I can edit a button to add my friends picture and name to a button. This is going to help so many people communicate! Excellent work Tobii!!!


AAC User
Zvp3

Wow! This is great! Can't wait to get the full version! Yay Tobii!


teacher
golfgirl61

This app is easy to use, my autistic students are able to navigate with ease. I have another student who uses the Tobii c12 with the sono software products. Will Sono Primo be an app as well? Love those pictures/stories!


Parent
TeresaJil

Tons of great things about this app. Organized well. Fairly easy to use. A few requests. One would be word predicition. Secondly, I would like to have the option to be able to have the word stated as soon as the icon is pressed rather than having to build the sentence and then push the message bar. It is to many steps for my 8 year old daughter to do. Also, she needs the immediate feedback of the sound of the word she has just picked to be more accurate in her communication. Finally, make a password that is required before changes are able to be made to the screen. It is to easy for her to get in to the modify content areas which means i am constantly having to watch when she uses it.


Tobii
AAC user

I don't like tobii as a company. They have no language organization or strategy and are here to make a buck. People have no idea about language and just jump on any wagon tht has something new. Do some research people.


Confusing; difficult
Riverreviewer

First off you have to figure out how to make it speak: tapping in the white area doesn't always work. The voices are horrendous; the kids voices was a good thought but it doesn't work. The layers to get to options is confusing, a 'real' SLP(A) or anyone involved in speech and language would know this. There is no option to make the items bigger; they are way to small on this program. Overall they need to go back to the drawing board.


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