<p><b>Jocomunico</b> is a free <b>Augmentative and Alternative Communication</b> (AAC) app aimed at persons with severe speech impairments who use pictogram-based communication methods.</p>
 
 <p>The application <b>automatically expands</b> telegraphic language resulting from <b>pictograms</b> into natural language sentences in Catalan and Spanish. Therefore, it transforms a group of pictograms such as «I go school tomorrow» into <b>natural-sounding sentences</b>: «I will go to school tomorrow». Jocomunico is a pioneer in this field, allowing great flexibility in sentence building and giving users the chance <b>to add customized vocabulary</b>.</p>
 
 <p>Jocomunico also features a <b>pictogram predictive system</b>, which not only <b>learns from user behaviour</b> but also takes into account semantic information of pictograms along with some of <b>the conversation context</b>.</p>
 
 <p>In the <b>history</b> you will find recently generated sentences. History feature allows you to create folders to store these sentences along with other sentences input by keyboard. This feature can help reduce communication time but it also offers the chance to <b>prepare conversations</b> in advance.</p>
 
 <p>Furthermore, this application can be supported by several <b>Internet-enabled devices</b> such as smartphones, tablets and computers running any OS. An offline computer version -Windows XP or higher and for Mac OS X 10.6 or higher- is also available.</p>
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 <p class="section-content-subtitle"><strong>Customization options and settings</strong></p>
 
 <p>Jocomunico provides user with different <b>accessibility options</b>: touch-screen interface access on tablets by using one or two external switches or a regular mouse; highly configurable screen-scanning options; click or time-selection configurable options; completely customized panel setting; online service of voice synthesiser or access to local voices in the offline version (SAPI and Microsoft Speech Platform for Windows or VoiceOver voices for Mac OS X), etc.</p>
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 <p class="section-content-subtitle"><strong>Further uses</strong></p>
 
 <p>Jocomunico can be a useful tool for <b>speech therapists</b> in order to work on different language development issues, such as verb tenses, sentence modalities (commands, questions, wishes, negative sentences, etc.) building well-ordered sentences, among other uses. It can also help encourage pictogram-based CAA advanced users <b>making the leap into reading and writing</b>.</p>
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 <p class="section-content-subtitle"><strong>Potential users</strong></p>
 
 <p>Jocomunico is an application aimed at <b>persons with severe speech impairments who use pictogram-based communication methods</b>, such as individuals with:</p>
 
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 <li>Physical impairment: spinal injury, multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), neuromuscular disorders…</li>
 <li>Cerebral palsy</li>
 <li>Autism spectrum disorders</li>
 <li>Brain injury: brain stroke, traumatic brain injury…</li>
 <li>Intellectual disabilities</li>
 <li>Elderly people</li>
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 <p class="section-content-subtitle"><strong>About the project</strong></p>
 
 <p>This application has been developed in the context of a PhD research project. The project has been funded by <i>Fundacion Adecco</i> in partnership with Telefonica, under the Talentum Start-ups programme by Telefonica. </p>
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 <p class="section-content-subtitle"><strong>Future development and open source code</strong></p>
 
 <p>Jocomunico is a free open source application under a <em><a href="/#/cc">Creative Commons</a></em> license that can be modified and extended by independent developers. It can also be adapted to the specific needs of a particular user or group of users.</p>
 
 <p>The expansion system that expands telegraphic language into natural language, as a part of the application, is therefore ready to be extended. The app/source code consists of a parser, which is able to support different languages regardless of their structure, and a language-dependent generator, currently in Catalan and Spanish. To add a new language, a new generator can be created from the existing ones. In addition, the syntactic and semantic information of the new vocabulary needs to be entered as well.</p>
 
<p>The pictographic symbols used by default in Jocomunico are property of the Government of Aragon and have been created by Sergio Palao for <b>ARASAAC</b> (<a href="http://arasaac.org" target="_blank">http://arasaac.org</a>). These symbols are distributed under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA).</p>
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 <p class="section-content-subtitle"><strong>More information</strong></p>
 
 <p>For further information on Jocomunico, please contact us with your query using our <strong><a href="mailto:info@jocomunico.com">email address</a></strong>.</p>