Ola Mundo Socky

Ola Mundo Socky is a pictures-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) mobile app designed for children with autism who are non-verbal. This messaging app has a vocabulary of symbol keys that the child can use to create messages. He or she can either send the message to someone else (e.g., a parent or friend) through the Socky app, or have the message read aloud to the recipient using the app’s speech synthesizer. In the message box, the child’s messages and the messages of those whom he or she is communicating with are distinguished from one another by a different avatar. In the settings option, the child’s parent can select his or her avatar, the child’s avatar, and which categories and symbol keys his or her child will have access to from a large library of symbols.