Yet another conference behind me! Closing the Gap in Minneapolis is a niche conference focusing on AAC. There was a great interest in the MyTobii eye controlled devices but also in the new release of VS Communicator – a comprehensive communication software from the Tobii subsidiary Viking Software.

VS Communicator includes a broad range of ready made displays for both text based and symbol based communication. It has built in functionality for speech generation, text messaging and e-mail and it’s open for all input methods, from scanning to eye control.

Speech Pathologists and other professionals at CTG really fancied the features for creating and editing displays. A free demo version can be ordered directly from Viking Software at sales@viking-software.com.

One very special moment was when I got to help a 10 year old girl with Cerebral Palsy to try the MyTobii. Today she has no tool to communicate with her family and they really don’t know what level of understanding she has. When she managed to focus on the calibration (which was done with a giraffe instead of a dot) and thereafter looked at and clicked on different symbols with here eyes, it was a moment of “wow” for both her parent and me!

Have you ever had a moment like that?

Cheers,
Sara