While the app is great and helps my son tremendously, we are finding that this app has a serious flaw. Every few days, without warning, the app will suddenly consume the iPad battery. We use an iPad exclusively for GoTalkNow and turn on Guided Access so it is the only app that can be used. Every now and then, the iPad battery drains at an incredible rate, with this app being the only thing on. These drains always occur when the iPad is not in use. Looking at the battery plot from the past 24 hours shows a drop from 75% to 0 in the span of about 4 hours each time, starting with a sudden spike in GoTalkNow activity. This often occurs in the middle of the night! For a $100 app, this flaw is quite infuriating...

please , every time ipad got broken I had to make pages again I would like to save everything in google drive but says “Its disable can you please fix it , please , I need to fix my ipad and I wouldn’t like to lost everything I did , if this is fixed it really deserves 5 stars, everything else is perfect;)

The app is awesome but the only reason why I gave it one star is because I purchased GoTalk for my son 3 years ago, an update was done on my app and I saw the new downloads available so I downloaded the 36 core words and added to my book BUT now I lost all of my sons original pictures and text to voice. Every time I open the app it only takes me directly to the core words and I can’t even edit any pages. I’m so upset because this wasn’t a cheap app and now how in the world can my son communicate. If anyone can offer help on how to reverse this to my original app I would be most appreciative.

Go Talk Now is an easily programmable communication app for sure. Updating buttons is quick and there are video guides to show how-to's of creating books, even a free lite version to trial it. What I really I love is how this app can be more than just a traditional communication app. GTN can be used to reinforce learning new skills or to offer motivating rewards by inserting short video clips from the iPad camera roll. GTN gives a nonverbal individual the opportunity to "tell" others about an activity through a unique communication book you create for the activity. I easily create communication books of different themes that show our teenager the "how to's" of her in various activities by storing a short video clip. Watching herself in an activity is rewarding and reinforces skills. I created an entertainment book of music video downloads to watch while on the treadmill to motivate her workouts. Attainment Co. has a few YouTube videos sharing creative uses for GTN as well as details of creating books: steps to back up communication books; using a GTN in a community outing situation to mini golf and then "tell other" about the activity etc. On my wish list for GTN is an easier way to backup communication books of more than 5 pages at a time for an iPad 2. Attainment Co. Is usually pretty responsive when a glitch occurs after OS updates. I found a new feature that I like of being able to crop icon images.

I have thoroughly enjoyed learning (and continue learning) how to incorporate the Go-Talk-Now with a range of AT students in the public school setting. Originally, I had download Go-Talk-Now when it was in version 3.5.11 (November 2012) and have seen many helpful additions in its features to make this product a worthy purchase for non-verbal students, children with emerging verbal skills, and students with apraxia. The programming process is very accessible for both new therapists and experienced therapists who have developed communication systems with other devices. More importantly, Go-Talk-Now’s user manual and help guide is structured well to navigate through. If you are looking for an app with high quality speech generating capabilities for students on the spectrum, GTN also has video modeling features. (Probably the most beneficial feature for our kids needing high quality “video replays” of actions that we want them to remember). This company has really set-up their settings page well for those who need to locate different control features. For my student’s with cerebral palsy, I like to use the “touch up” activation feature for buttons. (My experience is that kids with less control in hand coordination [shaky placement while pointing at smaller icons] are able to better trigger icons without as many misfires when the icons activate at the release of the touch-up movement rather than with the “touch-down” activation feature. Thumbs up to the Go Talk Company for making sure this feature got programmed into their software. If misfiring selections (icons next to the desired word) is an ongoing discouragement that one of your kids is experiencing, I also suggest looking at the “debounce” feature housed under the accessibility area. With this, you can set duration lengths (i.g., how long it takes before another icon to be triggered) before selecting another button. Another feature is the company’s addition to support upcoming scanning devices while deciding if you want to direct your scan direct via left-right rows or by up-down column. At my school, we are able to incorporate the “Bluetooth Switch” (it has 6-ports) by using the “space” and “enter” ports to scan through icons. (I have not yet practice this with the predictive keyboard page, but I hope that it will easy scan through with QWERTY efficiently). Keep up the good work Attainment Company!

Great, uncomplicated, easy-to-use, customizable AAC program with good, clear voices (extra, relatively minimal purchase), easy set-up and organization---and somewhat limited upload to private/public "galleries" of single or multiple sets (up to five "pages") of your boards., Go Talk's easy facility for choosing internet images to supplement each button on a board does not limit the DATA size of any of its internet images. Although you may easily resize an enormous image to fit on a button, it remains densely data-rich. --Create boards full of these images, and they will either take forever to upload (to mail or transfer to the "Gallery"), or occasionally crash. It's wonderful to have a resident facility for accessing net images; however, an improvement might be continued access (to find pictures the excellent resident Go Talk library is missing) with a self-limiting picture "data size" utility. One must be careful of overloading this excellent program with (e.g.) too many voices, too many pictures, etc.. In my experience--with Go Talk library images (and a smaller data load), the program's boards transfer quickly and efficiently. AAC is inherently clunky, and for moderate users, this is wonderful program which, with a little creative thinking, even inspires novel therapeutic scenarios. (I'm an SLP, relatively inexperienced with AAC. And this program is my own "educational opportunity"...so I am very pleased with it. (Thanks to Attainment for creating it!)

Cannot even open. It keeps crashing now :(

The July 25th update has been a nightmare for using this app with scanning. It worked fine until the update. I called tech support for the app and the tech person said it was the switch I was using (RJ Cooper) and not the app. I was about ready to get a new switch when I decided to test it on one of my client's device who still hadn't done the update. It worked perfectly so obviously it is not the switch, it IS the update as I had suspected. I'm so angry that I can't go back to the previous version on my device! Please fix this horrible update!!

I love the ten second debounce time. This is the best app ever. Thank you for listening to parents of the users and making improvements. I also love the 2 button option.

The only complaint I have is that going from 4 buttons to 9 is too much. I wish there were options for 6 buttons! Otherwise this is a fantastic app for communication! It has made it so much easier for my daughter to communicate what she wants or how she feels with just simple touching! And I love the feature of being able to add anyone's voice to it! Highly recommend this app for anyone with kids who have problems communicating in any way!