Expressive

I find the voice quality on this app to be so poor that the verbal model is virtually useless. Voice tends to be robotic in quality and cuts off at the end of each word, making words difficult to identify. Response to touch on the iPad screen also seems unusually slow so that an image choice is not immediately activated. This may be useful in time once the bugs are worked out but at present I find that I cannot use it with my non-verbal clients. SLP

Only problem was figuring out that my mute button was locked. The description in the app under "options" didn't seen so clear but the reply I received to my email was very helpful!! I haven't tried it with my adult autistic patient yet but I like the fact that this app. Is not too childish for him ..

Nice ability to customize, good enough images (you can add your own), one voice choice per gender. Best feature is the ability to customize for your clients. Not sure it's worth $50... From Product Description: "If you have a family member that has lost the ability to express themselves (even if just temporarily due to a surgery, accident or aphasia) Expressive will give them back the ability to communicate and express their basic needs." This is not untrue, however if your family member can read and is able to point accurately this is NOT the app for you. Verbally is FREE and has beautiful prediction ability. Speak It! is a basic text to speech tool (you type, it speaks) and it's only $2.

Love this app and wish you can update it.

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App crashes often when creating a new folder with images. I also wish the app would just open when selected without the Smarty Ears loge/intro song. It’s distracting & it causes a delay for access to the app.

I am an SLP always seeking for new AAC apps that are effective and efficient and since I purchased this app in a bundle with custom boards about a year ago, I have been extremely satisfied with how user friendly both apps are. My students love using expressive and have augmented communication using this app instead of those expensive devices that often times sit on shelf of a special education classroom unused. This app is so effective because once you purchase it you can download it to any ipad the buyer owns and use it with various students. Young and old students both love the pictures, and one enjoy using it to communicate. I pair it with communication books I make using custom boards and students answer questions from their communication notebooks using expressive. I thank the app creator who is a very knowledge and creative SLP because not only is app fun, but the app is often updated, and targets both core and fringe vocabulary. I highly recommend this app. For future improvement, I would recommend that this app works out of cloud system, that way any changes one makes could be made by the SLP from home and show changes when synched as does the app coughdrop (an app by another app developer). Expressive and coughdrop are my two favorite AAC apps to use in the public school setting and in the medical setting with both pediatrics and geriatrics.

All the folders and pictures keep red is no phone number support line to call.

Very nice start. We've seen other apps from Smarty Ears start out with a few kinks and then greatly improve with future updates to become definite 'must have' SLP apps. Benefit of investing in an app from such a solid company! Love that it incorporates familiar color-coding, a nice clean layout, and relatively simple editing. Might become my go-to rec for families who want to get something in place while we're working on the bigger AAC eval process. I'm very excited to see what they have planned for the future of this communication app.

The organization is awkward. Black pepper is filed under vegetables? Corn (a grain) represents the category of vegetables? I understand some are confused and group it with vegetables, but to be the key icon isn't the best representation. One of the selected key verbs is to "paste" with an icon of toothpaste. If this were all that is available to a child, it could be used as a bare minimum until proloquo could be purchased.