Part 10: Backups - Backing up, Transferring backup, and Restoring from backup In this 35-minute video, Nate and Tom demonstrate how to backup your vocabulary internally and then transfer the backup using iTunes File Sharing on a computer for safekeeping. They stress the importance of creating a backup file of your customized vocabulary on a regular basis and also how to restore your backups onto your device. We strongly recommend backing up to your computer after each customization. Please note, viewing these videos does not qualify as attendance and will not be applied to the requirements for our Proloquo2Go trainer certificate or CEUs. However, if you want to obtain a trainers certificate you should watch these webinars at http://www.assistiveware.com/webinars where we can record your attendance.

Vincent Pagel, Head of Research & Development at Acapela Group explains the principles of Text to Speech.

This video is about the importance of having naturally-sounding children's voices for children who cannot speak.

Behind the scenes Josh and Ella talk about the recording of their voices for the new children's voices included in Proloquo2Go.

iPads & Apps: For Learning, For Leisure, As Tools for Autistic Kids, and Adults. Shannon Des Roches Rosa discusses and explains why the dynamic display, touch screen, and the portability of the iPad can help learning and leisure for autistic individuals. Shannon is the proud parent of Leo, an 11 year old autistic boy. She gives frequent workshops on how iPads can help autistic people learn and play. Her writings and interviews are featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MacWorld, Parents Magazine, and S.F. Weekly. Shannon writes at Squidalicious as a bloggers and is a contributing editor for Parenting Kids with Special Needs. Shannon is the Co-Founder and editor of The Thinking Person Guide to Autism.

Autism and Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Research-based Best Practices by Joanne M Cafiero, Ph.D. Dr. Cafiero discusses the features & types of AAC that best correlate with ASD processing styles, lists evidence-based and promising practices in aided AAC & ASD, and demonstrates effective AAC interventions. Joanne Cafiero, formerly a high school science teacher is currently a special education AAC teacher. Joanne was Autism Projects Coordinator at Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education. She is a consulting editor and contributing author for peer-reviewed periodicals and major AT media and sits on the professional advisory board for the new national organization Autism Now and the adult autism advocacy group, AutCom. She is the author of the 1st book on autism and AAC, Meaningful Exchanges for People with Autism: An Introduction to AAC. Dr. Cafiero teaches and works with schools and families nationally and internationally.