Proloquo2Go Manual 2.3_Nov_23 - AssistiveWare

feelings, the word “love” might be used many times a week, while the word “celebrate” may
be used infrequently. While it is possible to create a folder of all the feeling-related verbs a
person might need to say, this folder would quickly become difficult to use as it would
become filled up with verbs that are not frequently needed. It would also be possible to
create a folder with only those feeling verbs that are most frequently needed, but then the
user would miss the opportunity to use less frequently needed verbs such as celebrate or
bother. With VocaPriority, frequently used words and phrases are placed in the primary
priority level of a folder. Words that are still useful for the user on a less frequent basis are
placed in the secondary priority level. These secondary buttons can be reached using a
More button at the bottom right corner of the page. When on the secondary page, the
primary page can be reached by a Back button at the bottom right corner of the page. These
More and Back buttons are automatically generated by Proloquo2Go, so all the person
customizing the vocabulary needs to do is mark buttons in a folder as primary or secondary,
and Proloquo2Go will do the rest.
There is a third level of priority in VocaPriority - Storage. The Storage level is only
available in Edit Mode and thus not exposed to the end-user. Storage is the place where you
put related words and phrases that are very unlikely to be needed by the user at the
moment, but which the user may need at a later time when his or her language skills have
developed or life circumstances change. In the feeling verbs example, “divorce” and
“protest” may be placed in storage as the user’s current language level or life experiences
make these words unlikely to be useful. But if a need arises to make these words available,
they can be easily moved from storage to the secondary or primary level using “promotion”.
Similarly, if the user is overwhelmed with the number of choices in primary or secondary
levels, buttons can be moved to a lower level using “demotion.” In this case, the words can
easily be restored when they’re needed. Proloquo2Go’s Core Word vocabulary uses
VocaPriority to create a vocabulary that is both linguistically rich and easily customized for
different language levels and individual preferences. The screenshots below show the
primary, secondary, and storage priority levels for the Feeling Verbs folder in Core Word.
Promoting or demoting a button from Primary or Secondary
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