There are various ways in which you can add new items to your vocabulary. You can add from the Message Window, add from the Recents list and add in editing mode. In the first two cases you are adding a message that has already been written. In the last case you create a completely new item that can hold any text you like.
Note that if you do not see the Add or Edit buttons these may have been turned off in the Proloquo2Go section of the iPhone/iPod Settings application. See the Options and Settings part of the manual for more details.
Creating an item from an existing message
To add the current text in the Message Window to your vocabulary simply navigate to the category in which you would like to place the new item and then press the plus button on the right side of the navigation bar.
To add a recently used message, go to the Recents View by tapping on the recents button in the bottom toolbar and then navigate to the message you would like to add. Next press the green plus button.
When you add an existing message you will see the first part of the message shown at the top. Below that you can choose what category to add the new item too. Proloquo2Go tries to make an educated guess of what the most likely categories would be to add the new item to. All you need to do is pick the one you find most appropriate.
Next, you need to decide what image you would like to use. Proloquo2Go will let you choose one of the images that were part of the message you are adding or you can choose a new symbol from the symbol library, choose a picture from your photo library, or on an iPhone, take a picture.
Finally, you can choose to simply Add the item or Add it as a New Category (in which case it becomes a folder in which you can deposit other items), or if you want to do some further fine-tuning you can choose Add and Edit.
Creating an item from scratch
To add a completely new vocabulary item holding any text you want you need to switch to Edit Mode. To switch to Edit Mode first go to the editing toolbar by tapping the toolbar switch button on the right side of the bottom toolbar. Then tap the Edit button. In both grid and list view you will see that the appearance fo the grid /list changes when you enter the Edit Mode. Once you are in Edit Mode you can tap the Add button to add a new vocabulary item.
When you create a completely new item you need to type the text that needs to be spoken in the top row. Tap that field and the keyboard will appear allowing you to enter the text. Tap the Done button on the keyboard when you are done with the text.
Next, select the category to add the new item too. You will have a number of categories to choose from, some standard ones as well as the category you were in when you tapped the Add button.
Now you need to choose a symbol or picture, or on the iPhone take a picture if you want.
Finally, you can choose to simply Add the item or Add it as a New Category (in which case it becomes a folder in which you can deposit other items), or if you want to do some further fine-tuning you can choose Add and Edit.
Editing an existing item
To edit an existing you first need to switch to Edit Mode. To switch to Edit Mode first go to the editing toolbar by tapping the toolbar switch button on the right side of the bottom toolbar. Then tap the Edit button. In both grid and list view you will see that the appearance fo the grid /list changes when you enter the Edit Mode.
Once you are in Edit Mode you can tap on the item you want to edit. You can then choose to Cut, Copy or Edit the item. In this case choose Edit.
Note that to cancel you need to press the Cancel button a little higher than you would expect.
In the Item Editor you can change the text to speak, this text is shown at the top. You can also assign a label to the item that will be displayed but is different from the text that will be spoken.
Next, you can change the symbol or picture used for the item. If you tap “Choose picture…” an image picker will appear giving you access to the image library on your device. On the iPhone you also have the option to take a picture with the built-in camera.
Each item is part of one or more categories and if the item is a folder it has one or more links. If you want the item to show up in specific categories you can change the categories to which the item is assigned. If you want the item to act as a folder you can link it to one or more categories. When the item is tapped it will then load those categories. You do not need to use these features unless you want to do some advanced programming.
You can make an item silent if you do not want it to be spoken when tapped. This is useful if you have created a folder item and you do not want the item itself to appear in the message window when the item is tapped.
You can set the importance of an item to determine whether it will be displayed when the vocabulary size is changed in the Options View (see the appropriate section of this manual). Items of Very High importance will show up with every vocabulary size. Items with Very Low important will not show up when the vocabulary size is reduced. This makes it possible to define a single vocabulary for different users, yet for some users have less important items be hidden by changing the vocabulary size in the Options View.
You can set the kind of item. Proloquo2Go will make an educated guess at this when you create a new item, but you can manually change it here. When an item is defined as verb or noun the automatic morphology features will be applied to it. See the appropriate section for more information n these features.
Finally, you can delete the item. If you choose to delete the item you will be given the option of just removing it from the current category or deleting it completely.
When you are done editing you scroll to the top and tap the Done button.
