Recommending another Chinese AAC app with a robust language system for children: PRC Saltillo’s TouchChat WordPower 60 now has a Chinese version! The interface is in Simplified Chinese, but you can manually change each word to Traditional Chinese. Wishing for a Traditional Chinese version in the future!
Navigation: This app is designed so that pressing a word takes you to the next related page. For example, pressing “eat” (Fig. 1) takes you to a food vocabulary page (Fig. 2).
Keyboard Input: One of the best features is that it uses iOS’s built-in keyboard for text input, supporting phonetic input (Fig. 3) and handwriting input (Fig. 4). By comparison, the other Chinese AAC app with a robust language system — TD Snap — currently only supports Hanyu Pinyin input.
Apple Store (Fig. 5): The green-circled “TouchChat Discover” is the free version without speech output — download it to try it out. The red-circled option is the paid version with the WordPower layout, at US$299 one-time purchase (if time allows, wait for October — AAC Awareness Month — for a 50% discount).
Free for SLPs! Speech-language pathologists can get the app for free by completing the TouchChat Partner Program online course and applying at:
https://touchchatapp.com/community/partners
At the ATIA conference, I met Nancy and Shirley who designed the Chinese vocabulary layout. Thank you for all the time and effort they put into creating it! I also let them know that Taiwan needs a Traditional Chinese version — continuing to wish for it!
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