Proloquo2Go Manual 2.3_Nov_23 - AssistiveWare

If you have an earlier version of Proloquo2Go installed on your device, you can use the
vocabulary from there in Proloquo2Go 2.0. To do so, select Copy of Pre-2.0 Vocabulary in
Startup Wizard or when creating a new user.
6.3. Customizing Your Vocabulary
Gathering Personalized Vocabulary
When customizing a vocabulary, the first step is find out what things the user will need to
communicate about. This involves determining the user’s preferences on things like food,
activities, music, etc., as well as the names of people, places, and things that are important
in the user’s life. See Appendix A for a list of useful information to gather. If possible, gather
information from family, friends, care providers, and school staff, so that the vocabulary the
user needs throughout all environments in his or her day is represented. If you’re updating
from a pre-2.0 version of Proloquo2Go, you can create a user based on your pre-2.0
vocabulary, and then copy and paste buttons from the pre-2.0 user. We do not currently
support copying and pasting folder buttons between users, but will add this feature in a
future release.
Customizing for Basic Communication
You will use the information you gathered about the user to customize the contents of the
various folders in the Basic Communication vocabulary:
Things, People, Places, Activities: Add buttons for the things the user will want to
communicate about into the appropriate folders. For example, if the user loves crackers and
milk and is using the 3x3 Basic Communication organization, both crackers and milk should
be added to the “I want” folder. If the user is set up with the 6x6 Basic Communication,
where things are divided up into different folders, crackers should go in the food folder and
milk in the drinks folder.
Some common buttons have been added to the storage levels of the Basic Communication
folders. When in edit mode, you can go to the Storage level and promote those buttons that
are important to the user into the Primary level. For example, many people like chips and
crackers, so these are in the Storage level of “I want” and “Food” in the Basic
Communication vocabulary, to save you time. Other buttons may be more uncommon, and
won’t be in Storage, so you will need to add an button with the appropriate symbol. For
example, your user may love pomegranates. This is probably not an button that is in
Storage, so you will have to add an button for it, and search for the symbol for pomegranate
when you create the button.
Think carefully about how many buttons you add to each folder. Many people who are
appropriate for Basic Communication vocabulary may be overwhelmed by long lists of
potential choices, especially if they need to scroll. Especially at first, limit the buttons you
add to those buttons you know the user strongly prefers or will want to talk about. As time
goes on, you can add more buttons at the primary level. If you find your user has many more
buttons he or she needs to have available in any folder than will fit on a single screen,
consider keeping the most important ones on the primary level and demoting ones the user
rarely refers to to the secondary level, so the user does not need to scroll.
I need help: This folder should contain messages the user can use to quickly get assistance.
Buttons for asking to use the bathroom, feeling sick, something hurts, and a folder for body
parts are included. Add any other buttons that you feel the user may need to request quick
assistance that reflect the user’s unique needs. For example, if the student often needs to
have his or her AFOs removed or readjusted, you might add a message here.
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