The new downloadable packages of pictograms in differents languages are already available at the downloads section of arasaac´s blog or at the downloads section of the portal: Castilian, English, French, Catalan, Euskera, Galician, Portuguese, Portuguese of Brasil, Italian andGerman.

As well as with previous packages, we offer the full package in Colour and Black and White with the new pictograms created by Sergio Palao. The full package as, apart from the latest added pictograms, it includes the changes in the dictionary and in their assignment to the pictograms.

As you already know, ARASAAC dictionary of senses is under continuous development adding not only new senses but also modifying the assignment of pictograms to them. We continue working on the creation of new pictograms. However, as we mentioned some time before, we are open to your suggestions of new pictograms or of new topics to be developed. Don't hesitate to contact us if you miss any pictogram.

Here is the first version of an extraordinary tool developed by Joaquín Pérez Marco, under the supervision of Joaquín Ezpeleta Mateo (Computering and Systems Engineering Department of the Superior Polytechnic Center of the University of Zaragoza) and the collaboration of professionals from Alborada Special Education Center, ARASAAC and the Aragonese Center of Technologies for the Education (CATEDU).

The program includes the database of ARASAAC’s pictograms and it allows the simultaneous writing with text and pictograms, thus facilitating the elaboration of materials and the adaptation of texts for people with communicative limitations.

In this first version, the application is translated to English, French, Catalan, Italian, German, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese both in the general menus and in the pictograms that will be used in the document.

You can download AraWord from HERE

There is further information in ARASAAC’s blog. 

The new downloadable packages of pictograms in differents languages are already available at the downloads section of arasaac´s blog or at the downloads section of the portal: English, French, Catalan, Euskera, Portuguese, Portuguese of Brasil, Italian y German

As well as with previous packages, we offer the full package in Colour and Black and White with the new pictograms created by Sergio Palao. The full package as, apart from the latest added pictograms, it includes the changes in the dictionary and in their assignment to the pictograms. As you already know, ARASAAC dictionary of senses is under continuous development adding not only new senses but also modifying the assignment of pictograms to them. 

We continue working on the creation of new pictograms. However, as we mentioned some time before, we are open to your suggestions of new pictograms or of new topics to be developed. Don't hesitate to contact us if you miss any pictogram. 

The new downloadable packages of pictograms in Spanish are already available at the downloads section of this blog or at the downloads section of the portal.

As well as with previous packages, we offer the full package in Colour and Black and White with the new pictograms created by Sergio Palao and a reduced package also in Colour and Black and White which only includes the last added pictograms. 

We recommend you to download the full package as, apart from the latest added pictograms, it includes the changes in the dictionary and in their assignment to the pictograms. As you already know, ARASAAC dictionary of senses is under continuous development adding not only new senses but also modifying the assignment of pictograms to them. 

We continue working on the creation of new pictograms. However, as we mentioned some time before, we are open to your suggestions of new pictograms or of new topics to be developed. Don't hesitate to contact us if you miss any pictogram. 

The APC Communicator (Adaptable Personal Communicator) created by Rubén Velasco is already available for iOS (Ipad) at the App Store for free.

The  Adaptable Personal Communicator is a communication system for people with severe communicative problems (autism, neurological diseases, motoric disabilities) which uses ARASAAC pictograms and spoken phrases.

The program incorporates an initial catalogue of about 550 pictograms which allow a basic functional communication to any user.

Compared to the Ipod/Iphone version we introduced in a previous entry, the Ipad version presents some differences and improvements: 

• Management of users: in this version you can create different users and manage the communicator for each of them.

• Redesign of the communicator’s interface: Now the categories appear on a left column and their content is loaded in the central section of the interface on the right column. No doubt this facilitates communication as you always have the categories available at visible so you can change from one to another in an easy and intuitive way.

 

• Symbols with text: when you load the content of the categories, you can see how each of the symbols shows the word at the top.
• Cumulative sentence: in this newIpad version, you can accumulate the sentence we are creating. Thus, on top of the column showing the content of the categories, the sentence will appear as it’s being created with the symbols you select. Once created, you can listen to the whole sentence or delete it.

You can already download and spread it as, apart from the proven efficiency of the Iphone version of the APC Communicator, it’s the first Ipad application available for free.

This new version makes the most of the tablets’ possibilities and of their wider screen. Besides offering the same functionalities than the Iphone/Ipod version,  its exponentially improvement by introducing improvements and functionalities, place the APC Communicator at the same level as other commercial communicators with an unbeatable quality/Price relationship.

Once more, we’d like to thank Rubén Velasco for his effort and altruism freely offering the whole community an extraordinary communicator and for relying on ARASAAC as the pictographic system for it.