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7 AUTISM Apps (YOU Need!) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  I'm talking about seven autism apps you need and we're breaking
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  it down right now. Okay.
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  So these are my seven kind of like top 10 apps.
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  I think a super beneficial to anybody on the Spectrum.
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  I'm going to break it down for you right now.
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  So you can see exactly which ones they are.
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  So I got these apps because I've used these I'm showing you apps
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  that I either use or have known people to use and have been
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  beneficial to them. So the first album talking about
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  here is big if you guys don't know what big is it's kind of
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  like an app where you can type text onto the screen and it will
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  show you what the the typing is in a big large bold font in on a
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  black background and white text now as you guys can see the side
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  of me here. This is what it looks like when
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  it's actually, you know on a screen you can type in messages
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  like hey, how are you? This is great for a few reasons
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  off your nonverbal autistic individual.
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  You can use this to communicate with somebody you may also have
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  other issues. Where you Partially die for
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  certain things like that or hard of hearing and you could use
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  this to get people to type it to you to text stuff to use you can
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  actually read it. I find this super useful I use
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  all the time when sometimes you're not feeling it you're not
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  feeling like to grate and you want to kind of just chill out
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  but you still want to communicate with somebody in a
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  room so you can always just type this message out and then just
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  pulled your phone and say like hey 1T and be like yo, check it
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  John T. So you guys have heard me
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  mention this next app before. Or and I'm really fond of this
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  app. I think it's an amazing app, and
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  I've used it for quite a while. Now.
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  This app is called mood it now mood.
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  It is kind of like it reminds me a bit of Instagram and Facebook.
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  It's kind of like you can put a state as up by like saying hey,
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  you know, I'm, you know, not feeling good today at all.
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  If you can put like a mood hacking like when feeling down I
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  watch my best TV show And then you publish it and then goes out
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  and it's great. You can also publish like
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  images. You can like take pictures you
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  post your mood. So today I'm feeling bored and
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  then you can go next. I'm just like add an image or
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  whatever it would take a camera photo here. and like basically
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  you can just post directly to this like a site.
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  Basically, I guess if I go, it's like a feed you can post
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  directly to the feed and it just appears on other people's these
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  kind of like Instagram, you know, you'd be scrolling through
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  and you see something that says oh this person's put mu tackle.
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  This person's put their mood up the cool thing about mood.
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  It is act non-judgmental. You can actually just, you know,
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  navigate your way around here and it's kind of like, you know,
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  you want to like put your mood out there and look for support
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  from people saying like I'm feeling a bit down today or
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  feeling anxious and people want to respond in a good way.
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  The offers that it's completely non judgmental people great on
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  it. I mean, I found to be very
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  beneficial and I feel like people actually enjoy mood it.
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  It has like it's almost like this support for mental health
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  kind of like a social media app. I think it has great potential
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  and I love it. Again.
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  All the links to all of these apps are going to be description
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  below. But yeah mood it awesome.
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  Check them out. Okay guys.
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  So the next app I'm going to talk about is prolonged to go
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  now. I don't use this app because I
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  am a verbal autistic person, but I know a lot of people who have
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  used this app to create succession and found that it
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  helps them a great deal. So promoted girl is kind of like
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  a super accessible like Emoji symbol based communication app,
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  right? And I know loads of people to
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  use this Naomi my girlfriend when she was working in a school
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  with autistic people that she'd actually use the iPads to use
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  prologue to go. It's highly recommended for
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  anybody who is struggling to have their kids to communicate
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  and learn other things as you can see.
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  Pros to go offers a range of different things dry find just
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  fantastic one of the most amazing things about 400 to go.
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  Is it super accessible anybody can learn to use it and you
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  don't have to be like, you know iPad illiterate so using and
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  just basically have an iPad and just check it out and you know,
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  you can just get going straight away.
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  It is slightly more expensive side, but I believe it's worth
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  it. And if you are somewhere your
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  insurance covers It in America Tour here in the UK where a
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  grant could cover it. I highly recommend checking it
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  out because it's a good app. So as you can see, this is the
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  logo of it when you go to the App Store.
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  I actually don't own it. It because you know, I don't
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  have a need for it and it's like 249 pounds to buy here.
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  But as you can see it offers a selection a range of amazing
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  things. I like I really like it.
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  It's got great reviews and like just the amount of symbols that
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  has on it. It's just incredible Pros ago is
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  awesome. I highly recommend it.
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  I feel like everybody who has a nonverbal autistic individual
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  could benefit from this. And another thing.
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  This is a benefit for anybody who is disabled in a nonverbal
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  sense or you know, Issues with communicating I think that
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  there's a lot of benefit from pearls to go especially for an
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  accessibility tool. So next up I'm going to talk
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  about is what I'm going to cover quite extensively because I'm
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  actually going to use this app to go to VidCon next month to
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  schedule everything. I'm doing my work.
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  I'm just going to give you an overview of what it is.
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  So this app is called Timo now Timo basically a it's kind of
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  like it's an app to help assist you in scheduling your day and
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  like getting structure a visual structure to your day.
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  Now I struggle with like having Structured day to day and making
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  sure that I'm sticking some structure and making sure things
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  are very routine. But with Timo it kind of give
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  you these symbols you can like put everything you're going to
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  do like you're going to go to the gym today.
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  You remember this you're going to do some gaming you can go out
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  to dinner it like gives you like halfway Max I get halfway
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  through the day or you're kind of like halfway home or your you
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  know, it's just amazing it schedule everything around it.
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  So by pure entire to do can be in this visual guide represented
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  in this flow chart on your iPhone, but it also Comes with
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  access to like Apple's iPhone apples watch as well so you can
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  have it come up on the watch and I can give you like prongs on
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  the watch. This is also available for
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  Android as well. So most of these apps I'm
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  talking about right now available on Android and iOS,
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  but I'm going to leave the links for the iOS ones below just so
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  that it's easier because I use apple.
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  I've just used them now teams have great one and I'm actually
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  going to put it to its s so if you want to see how it performs
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  on an actual like how does it perform always to VidCon?
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  We're going to be using Timo to see how we can like it's going
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  to organize. My entire life for that like,
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  you know eight days wherein VidCon or whatever it's going to
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  be amazing. So yeah, I highly recommend
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  checking out the T-Mobile. I think it's like it's
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  specifically made for with ADHD and autism.
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  I mean like how cool is this? It's not every day that you find
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  an app that a tailored to your specific needs.
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  Awesome. Okay guys.
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  So the next app I'm going to talk about is speech Bloods.
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  Now this company reached out to me and say can check out our app
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  and I absolutely loved it. And I feel like this could
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  benefit so many people so they wanted to get, you know a
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  collaboration going for video and here is our These that this
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  is a fantastic app. What it does is it encourages
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  children to be more verbal and can teach them loads of cool
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  things like it has like reputation.
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  Like you can have a sound that they can reply to sounds it can
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  mimic sounds you can record themselves on the others
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  overlays. There's like all kinds of cool
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  fun stuff and it's just one of those absolutely feel like, you
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  know, somebody's going to benefit from it because there's
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  a sound that something makes and then you can guess that sound
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  and then you Can record yourself doing that sound as well, you
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  can like look at faces and see like what is this feeling
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  because I you know, obviously people who with an awesome
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  special condition have issues with like, you know, what
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  Facebook's question is what kind of like, you know, what words do
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  what I find there's just this is a super super awsome the app
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  actually comes with a whole host of other things.
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  I mean, there's amazing see little petting zoo animal
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  kingdom down the world and it basically the way of
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  encouraging, you know, speech through voice-controlled.
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  Jen's house, like visual support for like everyday life stuff.
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  I mean, this is a very structured app.
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  I mean in terms of like if you want it for like little children
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  and young people to be more encouraged to talk and learn
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  more about speech will capillary and things like that disciples
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  amazing highly recommend it please check it out.
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  I'm like, yeah, they're just the super awesome and they're really
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  nice guys as well. Okay guys, so this next app I
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  use every single day. It's cold.
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  Bring now bring allows you to create.
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  It visual shopping lists or like grocery store list of things
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  that you need to buy from the store.
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  And then you like find the thing.
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  You don't like pasta sauce rolls eggs also spinach and then it
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  makes some red at the top. But what I find interesting
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  about us it tells you what the item is, but it also shows a
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  small little graphic of the item.
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  So see a word is one thing but actually visually seeing what
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  that word is helps a lot, especially when you're looking
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  for things in a store and if you're like me, you know visual
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  representation helps you identify what you need in a day
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  to day life. This app is great for that.
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  It's totally free. It just has a whole host of
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  other things. I mean it even gives you like
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  recipes it knows what food you bought until the rest of your
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  stuff. This is amazing.
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  I love it and it is highly worth having and using if you do a lot
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  of like the shop and grocery store stuff or if you want to
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  teach somebody how to do shopping and like grocery store
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  stuff. So yeah, definitely check it
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  out. Okay guys.
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  So the last thing I'm going to talk about is kind of not really
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  one app or like a bunch of apps. This is like voice to Tax
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  Technology. Now, I use my iPhone and my iPad
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  and my MacBook on a daily basis. I love my iPad.
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  I love my iPhone. And the reason I love it is this
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  I'm dyslexic and I'm autistic. So I have an issue with
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  communicating and spelling and speed.
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  So I'm trying to take things down my brains when we thousand
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  miles an hour. So the ability to talk to my
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  phone and it to help me complete tasks even open things up
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  schedule stuff remind me things because my memory is terrible my
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  short-term memory doesn't even exist.
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  My long-term. Memory is pretty good.
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  I can tell you everything there is to know about you know stuff
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  that happened when I was like eight years old, but right now
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  thinking oh, I've got to do this at this day.
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  Doesn't really work but I can tell my phone he Siri set up an
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  appointment for this day. I do this with this day.
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  And that would be super awesome. Now that works really really
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  well the voice technology also does something amazing for
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  dyslexia it help me spell because I can't spell things.
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  I don't know what things are and people say oh look at a
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  dictionary. But how are you gonna find
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  something in the dictionary? If you don't know how to spell
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  it. So this is what I do.
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  I look at my phone and I say the word to my phone and it produces
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  it from dictation to text and it shows me exactly what the word
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  is and How to spell and then this is the best thing about the
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  iPhone and the iPad is you can highlight the word and click
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  look up and it'll tell you through a thesaurus where the
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  word is used in context how it's used where you typically use it.
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  It's just amazing and that technology voice to text is
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  amazing groundbreaking and has changed my life as an avid, you
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  know user of technology. I found that Apple products and
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  smart tablets and things like that have just revolutionized my
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  life.