TD Snap + Core First is a symbol-based communication software designed to be the most innovative solution available on the market.
How does TD Snap + Core First enable a person to realize their potential?
Learning a language, achieving literacy and becoming independent in communication are different levels that need to be mastered. Tobii Dynavox Snap + Core First allows its users to communicate regardless of which of the listed levels they are at. As the user's skills develop, so do the capabilities of the TD Snap + Core First software.
It was designed as an intuitive and exciting software solution that bases user communication on symbols. This software features a wide range of pre-designed button settings, a full range of usable voices, and free backup storage. In this way, users do not have to worry about complicated settings, but can simply download the application and start communicating.
Why is TD Snap + Core First your communication friend?
You can start communicating immediately.
It was created to be the best.
Designed to increase user confidence.
Designed for easy adjustment and consistency.
Who is TD Snap + Core First intended for?
TD Snap + Core First is designed to be as easy to use as possible, both for the user and for his communication partners. Tobii Dynavox Snap + Core First will facilitate communication for people of all ages who have speech-language and communication difficulties, including people with autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities.
What makes TD Snap + Core First unique?
TD Snap + Core First is designed based on Tobii Dynavox's past achievements in the field of assisted communication. When designing this application, the focus was on meeting the needs of those users who use symbol-based communication.
How does TD Snap + Core First make the user successful in communication?
The strengths of TD Snap + Core First come from its features such as consistent use of language framework with core vocabulary, quick phrases, word list and keyboard, which allows users to interact naturally.
The software helps the user to continuously expand the vocabulary and develop communication skills and take advantage of motor learning by systematically and deliberately introducing new vocabulary. This allows the user to always find the vocabulary and necessary words.
The software is built on three fundamental pillars that build communication success: growth, inclusion and literacy.
TD Snap + Core First helps users improve literacy
Statistically speaking, literacy levels are very low when we talk about children and people who use assisted communication. According to a 2010 American study conducted by B. Foley and Julie A. Wolter entitled "Literacy Intervention for Transition-Aged Youth: What Is and What Could Be", 90% of students in America who have complex communication needs when transitioning to adults do not have successfully developed functional literacy skills.
Lower levels of literacy are a limiting factor in all aspects of life: education, independence and various life opportunities. With the help of the TD Snap + Core First software, parents, teachers and therapists can work with the child to improve his communication skills, master the language and achieve the necessary levels of literacy.
Encourage engagement
TD Snap + Core First allows users to quickly engage in real-time conversation, sharing their ideas and opinions on topics that are fun and important to them. In this software, the user can quickly and easily find the necessary messages at every level of communication possibilities, because the software contains a spectrum of topics for different situations and events, which encourages the user to communicate.
Accessories with TD Snap + Core First
Core First Pathways is free, companion software with tips for more successful communication and providing support on the user's journey to improving literacy. It is an interactive tool for setting goals, planning lessons and materials, and creating videos that make the user more successful.
Core Word Lessons and Core Word Books are free companion materials for users of Snap + Core First software, in which the lessons are focused on achieving three goals: teaching the user what each word means and what it is used for, the position of words in the software, and how words go together in a sentence.
All created materials and pagesets can be stored on the myTobiiDynavox.com page , without fear of losing anything. In this way, parents and experts can practice editing pagesets.
The Accessible Reading and Literacy Program was designed at Penn State University, is science-based, and aims to teach nonverbal students who use aided communication basic reading skills.
The Boardmaker Student Center app offers a range of tools to support speech therapists and educational rehabilitators who teach students who use aided communication. Through the Boardmaker Online page, speech therapists and educational rehabilitators can assign different tasks to their students, and students can solve them through the Boardmaker Student Center application .
There are plenty of recorded and live webinars aimed at experts available on this site, ranging from beginner to advanced.
It can be used in many different ways
TD Snap + Core First can be used regardless of the way of using the computer - direct input using the touch screen, mouse click, virtual click by holding on the desired icon, joystick or moving the pointer with eye movements.
For users who find it challenging to operate a computer with their hands, the eye control mode is suitable. To make this possible, there are PCEye Plus devices or I+ series devices .
If the user's needs change during the day, it is also possible to change the mode of operation. For example, it is possible to use touch control in the morning and gaze control in the afternoon.