These days at home & abroad Andrew uses either an old AlphaSmart or a new Neo, but neither can speak. (For various reasons, I believe talking devices help an autistic person learn to 'hear' and to talk.)
We need something that doesn't cost many thousands of dollars and does talk. (Also: I want something with information architecture I am able to comprehend because it is intuitively obvious not because I spent hours reading the instruction manual and engaging in deliberate practice.)
Looks like the iTouch apps people just produced what I'm looking for: iConverse.
Costs ten bucks.
Of course, I'd hate to lay odds on just how long an Andrew owned and operated iTouch would last. This morning he left his AlphaSmart on a hot burner.
It's still working.
My 4-year-old son is autistic who has trouble with expressing his emotions. He's started using something called Voice4u (http://v.sv4u.net), which is relatively new. The pictures are very colorful and he likes it a lot. With it, he has been able to express his feelings much easier and he has been having less tantrums every day. I think you should check it out on the App Store.
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