Niki Buttons vs AT Elements Child Pre (M) SStx Usage & Stats
Niki Buttons is a simple AAC app designed for people with autism or any disability that impairs the ability to communicate.
The easiest and most effective way to introduce single message communication to a user. Useful for those who have physical problems with pressing small buttons.
Niki Buttons is perfect for making a request, participating in an activity, or making a choice.
How it works:
- Four buttons available: blue, green, red and yellow.
- You can record your voice, and play it back by touching a button.
- To record a message, tap the "Record" button. When you are done, simply tap the "Stop" button. You can record over as many times as you need.
- Optionally you can choose an image from your device's camera roll and place it over a button.
- From Settings, you can choose to show image and record buttons on the top, on the bottom or even hidden.
- Dark appearance supported.
- Apple App Store
- Paid
- Education
Store Rank
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A collection of linked augmentative communication pages for an "emergent" AAC user first being exposed to AAC. Includes pages for both home and school, including pages for eating, drinking, washing up, needs, favorites, school subjects, teachers & classmates, calendar days, months, dates, and years, math operations, numbers 0-30, animals, transportation, science, spelling, songs, games, toys, and much more. This version uses SymbolStix symbols. (We offer this product in several versions with different symbol sets.)
Specifications:
Age: Preschool to 13 (language is just emerging)
Setting: Home & school
Voice: Boy (AT&T Natural Voice w/ pitch shift)
Language: US English
Grid size: 3 rows x 3 cols
Symbol set: SymbolStix
No. pgs: 87 plus 2 Core Words pages
Features Include:
• Emphasis on Core Words
• Easy editing and customization
• Add an unlimited number of speaking, linking pages
• Camera image acquisition directly in each cell
• Access to all provided images
• Easily show, dim, or hide cells
• Dimmed cell opacity is fully adjustable
• Dimmed cells remain active or can be disabled
• 'Restore mode' brings deleted pages from the provided page set back to their original state
• iOS text-to-speech (TTS) and recorded audio
• Adjust iOS TTS voice, speech rate, pitch, and volume
• Configure different TTS voice output settings for the user's voice and the auditory preview voice (when in scanning mode)
• International language support, including right-to-left text entry
• Word prediction with a 150k word library
• Optional word learning and tracking of frequency of word use
• 1x-3x cell magnification for low vision (scanning and direct select modes)
• List of pages includes page previews and a search bar
• Undo button
• 30-day user activity log in AAC Institute's LAM format
• Data tracking with privacy toggle and recording indicator
• Data logs may be copied for printing, sharing, and PeRT analysis
• Send messages to email and SMS & MMS text via email
• Pages may be backed up to a computer with iTunes File Sharing and a USB cable
• iCloud backup may be enabled
Switch support:
• One- and two-switch scanning
• Sequential and row/column scanning
• Auditory preview
• Bluetooth and direct touch scanning
• Supports RJ Cooper, AbleNet, Therapy Box, and Inclusive Technology Bluetooth switches
- Apple App Store
- Paid
- Education
Store Rank
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Niki Buttons VS. 
AT Elements Child Pre (M) SStxMarch 16, 2025