(Updated 2009-12-03)

What's new

Version 1.3.1 has just been released.

User-manual in Adobe PDF format will be available in mid-December, 2009.

Version 1.5 will support video file and music media file from iTunes library.  Available February 2010.


Important Changes

1) To dismiss the zoom view, double-click on the picture
2) To replay audio in the zoom view, drag on the picture
3) To toggle between choices while in zoom view, click on left/right side of the orange bar

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HaloTalk is a simple yet powerful augmentative learning software.  The application comes with over 50 pairs of responses commonly used daily.  Each response/adjective is natural voice enabled, with visual cue to help the user to pick an item.

The application may be used as a set of "opposite" flashcards as-is.  However, HaloTalk is designed to facilitate rapid prompting.  Since autistic individual has a tendency to verbally repeat the last word(s) of a question, it is extremely important if visual choices are presented to force making a choice, thus eliminating the confusion, and also help the individual to understand how to properly engage verbally.

For example, if the verbally-limited user is in the doctor's office, the doctor may select "OK / Pain" to make the user to select either "Pain" or "OK" when different body part is checked.

 






























High-quality pictures are used thru-out.  No abstract picture encoding is used.  There is no need to learn any symbol system.
































Like all other software from AdastraSoft, no secondary language reference is required to understand a concept (such as using a snail to represent "slow").  All pictures are "what-you-see-is-what-it-means".
































An text-based search function is included to allow fast searching.