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App developers have significant costs related to keeping robust AAC apps updated and paying licensing fees for high quality symbol sets and voices. Well unless you work in some mythical setting with unlimited funds or have a well established booming private practice, it’s unlikely that you would be able to afford very many AAC apps. How can you do a true feature-match when you don’t have all the features? Many SLPs see the prices in the App Store and assume they would have to personally purchase apps or try to get their facility or school to do so. The problem is even if there is a free or low cost lite version of a particular AAC app, it is not the same as trialing the full featured app. I guess the closer I get to retirement the more I feel compelled to share knowledge accumulated over my 28 year career. So I felt a need to share info here to help my fellow speechies build a better equipped AAC toolbox.

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A good AAC eval should also include consideration of features uniquely available in AAC apps but folks don’t often know how to get access to those.

Most folks know to contact their local vendor rep to borrow a SGD (the info to find out who to contact is readily available on those companies websites) so that’s not really where the problem is.

Of course any good AAC eval would also include consideration and trials of traditional SGDs. I have seen no less than 10 posts in a variety of Facebook groups this week from SLPs asking about free lite versions of AAC apps worded in a way that it was clear that the person who posted it thought that was their only option for getting access to AAC apps to trial with patients / students. How SLPs can get FREE access to AAC apps, AAC app user groups, funding options & more!

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