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Graduate Student’s iPhone App Gives Voice to Disabled Users

Not many iPhone applications get reviews that call them life-changing.

Samuel Sennott, a doctoral student in special educaton at Pennsylvania State University’s main campus, created an iPhone application that helps people with
communication disabilities speak. He worked with David Niemeijer, an Amsterdam-based developer, to build the software, called Proloquo2Go.

Users tap words, symbols, phrases, or sentences on the screen to create messages that are read aloud by the software. There are four different voice options,
including both child and adult voices.

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