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Tobii launches Sono Primo – the comprehensive and motivational content package for emerging communicators.

Today Tobii Technology AB announced the launch of Sono Primo, a brand new vocabulary system for assistive and augmentative communication. Sono Primo offers situational communication with core vocabularies, social scripts, visual scenes and more for emergent communicators.

Path to future growth 
Sono Primo is a language content product for emerging communicators that lays the foundation for success. It is available for both the static display S32 and for Tobii’s dynamic display devices and offers the right language and entertaining activities for a quick path to meaningful communication.

Situational communication
Sono Primo addresses a carefully selected set of communicative situations within a child’s world of experience. Each context offers a broad variety of pre-programmed content that makes it easy to create lively interactions through joined activities. The material allows exploring communicative roles, coach participation, as well as model language use in a playful and entertaining way.

Appropriate language levels
As suggested by leading AAC researchers, the different developmental stages of AAC users are matched through a variety of language representation:



    • Single symbol grid pages
    • Social scripts
    • Visual scenes
    • Hybrid scenes
    • Storybooks
    • Fun activities



Quick setup and customization
The Sono Primo provides great flexibility through its Control Center in Communicator. It allows for the quick pre-selection of activities, instant changes to the visual appearance, as well as easy to adjust settings. Further customizations, like changing vocabulary words and creating your own contexts from templates are really easy.

A natural voice
Sono Primo is based on the research of leading scientists in the field of AAC with young children (Janice Light, Kathryn Drager, David Beukelman, Mary Anne Romski, Rose Sevcik and others). One result of this research is the use of recorded children’s voices, as studies indicate a superior efficiency in learning over synthetic speech.

System requirements
Sono Primo requires Tobii Communicator 4.5 and a MyTobii P10, Tobii C8 or Tobii C12. Tobii Sono Primo also runs with Tobii SymbolMate and a Tobii S32.

Pricing
Sono Primo is free of extra cost when purchasing a Tobii communication device together with Tobii Communicator.

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More information
For more information about Sono Primo, please visit www.tobii.com.

For interviews and additional information, please contact:
Uli Ehlert, International Product Manager, Tobii Technology AB, Mobile + 46 733 278 716, E-mail uli.ehlert@tobii.com

Topics

  • Health, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals

Categories

  • aac
  • assistive technology
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • eye control
  • eye tracking
  • tobii

Tobii Technology is the world’s leading vendor of eye tracking and eye control, a technology that makes it possible for computers to know exactly where users are looking. Our eye tracking technology has revolutionized research in many fields and enabled communication for thousands of people with special needs. Looking forward Tobii’s mission is to bring eye tracking into broader use. Some of that future is already here. We provide market-leading eye tracking technology to industrial partners in areas such as hospitals, diagnostics, vehicle safety, gaming and computer manufacturing. Tobii continues to realize its visions, showing continuous and rapid year-to-year revenue growth, and receiving numerous awards and recognition for its accomplishments. From our head office in Stockholm, Sweden, our reach is as broad as our vision. With offices in the US, Germany, Norway, Japan and China and a worldwide network of resellers and partners, we are truly a global company.

Contacts

Sara Hyleen

Press contact Corporate Communications Director, Tobii AB Group-wide questions +46 709 16 16 41

Stephan Floyd

Press contact Marketing Manager, Tobii Tech PR & Marketing, USA 781-223-2005