CoughDrop

CoughDrop is great on my laptop, but on my phone it keeps crashing and reloads every few seconds. It takes 5 minutes to say a six word sentence (not exaggeration; I watched a clock). I’ve tried all the troubleshooting methods listed (turning off Bluetooth, cleaning the cache, etc.). Nothing works. The only two things left that I can think of are 1) getting a tablet (I’m wondering if there’s just too much on the phone and it’s getting overloaded?) or 2) pay for premium and hope that fixes it (it never acted up like this during the free trial and I’ve just been putting up with the reduced functions of not-premium usage, which has gradually led into the constant reloading problem). I love the way it can be personalized and edited to fit my needs, but it’s completely unusable on my phone.

I thought this app was glitchy at first but changed my opinion later because i just was struggling with tablet related things. Only issue I have is occasional glitches but there barely is any unless you have gifs on your board

The system is very frustrating to figure out to use with my client. It doesn’t upload boards, allow my student to stay on a page without accessing the edit page, and I don’t get questions answered.

Doing a trial run. We’ve been doing this not even 5 hours and the app has frozen multiple times. Won’t save. Multiple errors. No way this is worth $250!

The speech is way to fast, even to the point that it is hard to know what it has said. That being said , the app itself is easy to use. This won’t be the app that I will be using for my son due to the fast speech and the inability to model speech.

We needed an AAC program that would work on the kindle fire. We love coughdrop and use it on iPhone, android phone, and kindle fire. This program provides a free two month trial but we upgraded early to get access to child voices 🥰

The app is promising; however, I wish there was a way to slow down the speech. It is said so fast it is not adequate for modeling or usage to young nonverbal children.

The model of having a free communication app with subscriptions for a user rather than per device is the best! I am an elementary special education teacher for students with autism. I have been using this app with my classroom this year with 7 students who have limited or no verbal communication. I am thrilled with having this tool to use and love how easily I can make updates for my students on my device (computer, phone, or iPad) and it updates on their device. My favorite part is that all of our support staff and myself can have the app on our own devices so we can model, practice, and find words without needing to take the device from the student. The developers have been very helpful when I need help. I have been recommending it to all of our staff!

I used this with my 5 year old who is nonverbal on an iPad mini 4. Overall, it is nice to have across devices should she need a back up. It’s also great for modeling and having her team at school and I sync up easily. It’s pretty user friendly and their customer support is amazing. The app itself sometimes freezes or lags way behind which causes frustration.

For some reason, when I click the “other” button in Core 112, it goes to reptiles, which is just very confusing. I think I might prefer Proloquo2go.