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Green Bubble Policy

Some of the policies of our developer group are:
 1.  Maintenance and Updating
 The Green Bubble Labs will continue releasing and updating the apps continously. Also, if have some problem or issue please let us know and you will receive inmediate reponse.

2. Zero ads policy
We will continue not including ads to our free applications. We want your children and you could test our applications without any frustrating propaganda appearing on your device before you could purchase any of the pros.

3.   New releases
We are planning other apps for helping autistic children. Please lets us know if have some features to be included in these apps

Some advices for the daily use of Autism Speech App

The non-verbal autistic children usually create his own way of obtaining what they want, for example if they want something to eat: they go to kitchen or they open the refrigerator and try to take it by their own or they take your hand and push it in the direction of the object that they want.
If they want to go somewhere then they try to escape from you and run to that place or they push you in that direction.  If they don't know how to explain what they want then they perform tantrums or self-injury behaviors.

Some autistic children develop this set routines and others in order to solve what they consider to be they basics needs. Then, they may think: why should I change ?.  You must to prove to your children that the use of the device with the Autism Speech application represent less effort and complications than using his methods. In order to do that, we will give you some advices:

1. Graduality and patience: You must begin by taking his hand and pressing in the options. For example if the family is going to dinner, you must take the device before he may know that is going to eat and press: I want - food.
 This process of helping him or her with your hand may take weeks or even a year depending on the progress of the children.

2. The children must love his device not hate it: In the first lessons try to use the device only for things that you know he love, for example for soft drink, fruits, go to the beach. After you see that he is not rejecting the device then you may pass to the other options.

What is the difference between Autism Speech and other Picture-to-Voice apps ?.

There are others Picture-to-Voice apps in the Android Market it is true, but there some specific features that makes special the design of Autism Speech. The basics rules of autism speech are:

- Time is an important resource

Some applications have an interface that needs that the user: record, take photos and make other things to make the app work properly as default. This is an additional work for the user that needs to think and search for the better images and sounds, which is a not trivial and some times very demanding task, especially in the case of autistic children.

The pictures as well as the pictures position on the screen, in Autism Speech app, were carefully selected according to the autistic children needs.

- The interface should be consistent and easy.

Change the interface every time the children needs the device to comunicate something will frustrate him

- Less is better

Autism speech give the possibility to the child to access many options with few touches

- A word is not a sentence

One of the most difficult things to understand by the autistic children is the verb concept. Autism speech gives them the basics of the use of verbs.

- Reinforcement using reward

Some apps only give the possibility of emiting a voice when an image is pushed. The Autism Speech app also does that, but also performe a third operation, which is to make a zoom of the image if the children  push the sequence verb-object. In this way the children learning is reinforced

Robustness:

Usually the autistic children do not have fine motricity. The scrolling of screens could be a very difficult challenge for they. Autism speech have a no-scrolling interface in order to make easier the pictures selection

Autism Speech NEW RELEASE !!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR EVERY ONE !!!.

We have released a new version of autism speech diegosays Pro. This version includes device-generated voices for several languages as well as the previous options for voice recording,  images changes and build-in voices.
The supported languages are:

1. English
2. Spanish
3. Portuguese
4. Hebrew
5. French
6. German
7. Dutch
8. Chinese
8. Swedish

The default configuration is the build-in voices in English, thus is you want to change to device-generated voices Go to-> Settings-> General Settings-> Voice Sources and change to computer-generated

The avaiability of the voices in different languages depends on the installed the text-to-Speech language in  your device by the android system. The languages listed above are present in most of the devices.

Also, remember that you always could record the voices by your own in case the language is not present in your device.

Those who have purchased  the app already only need to update for free

Enjoy it !!

Do not give up and be smart

It is common that the autistic children do not pay attention for long time to teaching lessons . Usually, they get bored or get  stressed when you try to teach they something. Then, if you want to teach him or her the communication basics using the "Autism Speech DiegoSays" app our advices are:

1. "Be smart": try use, first, the things that they like most, and try that they ask you for these things using the device until him or her get the ability to push the options.

2. "Do not give up": be pacient and persistent, remember that one of the keys of the Applied Behavior Analisis, one of the most succesfull method for autism,  is the "intensity". Then, you must to repeat, repeat and repeat until he or her learn to communicate.

3. "Do not over-stimulate the child": The autistic children could not handle a lot of enviromental stimulus. Thus, try to teach him or her in quiet enviroment, without any other information than the teaching lessons.

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The best teaching strategy

The help of a speech therapist to improve the communication skills of your children is very important, but are the fathers who better know the needs of autistic children and their particularities. Thus, you must think well which should be the faster way to increase the communication skills of you children.

We think that a possible strategy for non-verbal autistics children is to use an easy picture-to-voice application in order to teach him or her the basics of comunication (such as Autism Speech app) . Then, after the child master this app, we think it could less efective increase the complexity of  the picture-to-voice app and instead of this, try to use a very simple way to teach they to write.

This is our next objective:  develop a very easy way to teach autistic children to write.

About MindAwakener NEW!!

Hello every body. We have released the first version of MindAwakener, this version uses the water for teaching the alphabet. It have been shown in several interviews with non-verbal autistic children and that could communicate by another ways, that they were storing information continuosly, even when they could not express or feedback this information. Then why not try to improve the information they store?

This is the idea of the new serie of applications MindAwakener we will use the desire of childrens to play with water and spinning things and  teach they some things that could be usefull for their lives.

The first step

The first step is the most dificult. Remember this, and then make your own strategy to teach your child.

One of the characteristics of autism is the hyperactivity. Thus if you are planning to use an app to teach him or her the basic communication elements, then the consistency and repetition are the key elements. Remember that your children preferences are more important than your own preferences.

Using and application with many options and change the interface constantly will not help you children if he or her do not have the pacience for look for the correct option.

The Autims Speech app was designed to teach the basic elements of communication, the first step of your children. Thats why it has a very easy and simple way to access to more options as possible.

The importance of communication

The  documentary Autism is a world (2004) reveals the importance of communication for autistic children.

Here is a short part of this documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1wsiVYCqn0

The subject of this film is Sue Rubin, a woman with autism who was considered mentally retarded as a child. At the age of thirteen, she learned to express herself through a computer keyboard revealing that she was in fact highly intelligent. She went on to study history, specializing in Latin Americal History at Whittier College

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Is_a_World

About AutismSpeech Pro Customization

Remember that AutismSpeech only have recorded voices by the default in English, for recording voices in other languages go to Settings->Picture and Voices then push in any of the images and change the image, record the voice or change the text to your language.

If you have any trouble and want to restore the default images, text or voices go to Settings -> Restore default

Keep updating the apps

Dear users and costumers the number of users of the AutismSpeech series have significatively increased since last month when it was released.

The types of devices using this application have also increased. If you have some issue during the use of the application, please remember to update: go to Android market  -  My apps. There is a list of the applications that have updates. Green bubble continuosly update the applications with new and better options.

New updates for released applications

We have released new updates of the AutismSpeech DiegoSays and Small Phone Diego Says.

For Small Phone (free)

New updates:

- Images adapted to any screen size

- 7 Interface languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, German, Dutch, Chinese.

- You can change the number of vocalization loops

For the DiegoSays Pro

Updates

 - Have 7 interface languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, French, German,  Dutch  and Chinese.

 - The Image labels can be changed 

 - The voices can be recorded 

 -The  images can be changed using the image gallery or camera 

 - The number of vocalization loops can be changed

 - The images adapt to any screen size

News from autism research

We will post regulary some news about autism research. This is the first one

New Study Confirms Role Of Environment In The Development Of Autism

Autism Android applications for small phones

We have released a new version of the AutismSpeech DiegoSays for small phones such as Samsung Europa type. If you have any Android Phone and you can't access to our applications, please write your opinion in this blog

About Released applications

Do you have downloaded AutismSpeech DiegoSays or HablaFácil DiegoDice ?. What can you tell about this applications ?. Do have any complaints ?. What elements do you think could be added to this app ?

Playing with water

I'm working in an application that will allow to the children to play with  the water and learn at the same time. Tell me what do you think about that ?

Spinning and water

The spinning of objects and playing with water are two of the things that diverges autistic children from the real world. I'm working in application to use this fact to teach reading.

Two android applications have been released

Hello, every one, I have uploaded in the Android Market two applications that can be useful for kids with speech problems such as non-verbal autistic children.

The applications are:

AutismSpeech DiegoSays I ( English version )

and

HablaFácil Autismo DiegoDice I ( Spanish version)

Enjoy