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Assistive Access, will enrich the opportunities available to us to customize the user experience and allow users to tailor our apps to their personality and needs.” Today, Jay uses Proloquo and other modes of communication to speak to his family, teachers, and friends. Children make up 80 percent of Proloquo users: Jay is one of the app’s 100,000 daily users and 300,000 overall users around the world. “The awareness of AAC among the public will increase in the next five years,” says Ashburn, who previously taught elementary school. Jay learns in a general third grade class. “It’s a big deal, because he’s nonspeaking and they tend to get separated.” Jay’s third grade classmates also use Proloquo as one way of interacting with him. “Proloquo’s unlimited sharing capability is probably my favorite feature. I can build an AAC team for Jay. His teachers, extended family, and even classmates have access to Proloquo on their personal devices for free,” Ashburn continues. “I can’t even describe how beneficial that is. It’s such a game changer in terms of leveraging AAC.” Jay is currently experiencing improvement in his speech, and uses Proloquo to practice speaking. To learn new words, he presses the button again and again, until he can start speaking the word or phrase himself. “Shut the door” is a phrase Ashburn says she frequently hears, as Jay enters his preteen years. “Many AAC options limit the