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Proloquo2Go 4.0 – How do I find the words?
Introduction
Proloquo2Go 4.0’s Crescendo™ vocabulary gives you easy access to core words – those words
that account for about 80% of what we say or write every day. The goal of Crescendo is to allow you
to say as much as possible while remaining on the Home page. We do this by putting on the Home
pages of the Intermediate and Advanced Core vocabulary levels as many of the most frequently
used and powerful words that will fit at each grid size. However, you will need to leave the Home
page in many cases to retrieve words from other folders. How will you know where to look for the
words you need? This paper will give you some clues. Know that with practice it will start to feel
easier to locate the vocabulary you want. It is also possible to add or move words to different folders
where it feels more natural or intuitive for you to find them.
Optimized for multiple grid sizes
Crescendo comes in 23 different grid sizes, from 3x3 to 12x12 (portrait orientation) and 3x5 to 9x16
(landscape orientation). For each grid size, the Home page of the vocabulary has as many of the
core words that can fit. The decision of which core words to put on the Home page is made based
on how often the words are used in conversation. A second consideration is how easily the words
can combine with other words to form sentences that express different meanings. New words
appear on the Home page at each step up in grid size based on how frequently they are used and
how useful they are for communication. In the figure on the next page you see the Home pages for
4x4, 6x6, and 10x10. Notice that at 4x4, vocabulary on the Home page is very limited, but it
contains very general and powerful frequently used words like “do” and “want”. In 6x6, you see the
same words you had in 4x4, and they’re joined by other words that are the next-most frequently
used words. In 10x10, you have room for lots of core words, including ones that are a little more
specific, like “say” and “tell”, “see” and “look”, and “think” and “know”.
Find your fringe
The Home page also contains folders for you to reach fringe words. Fringe words are used less
frequently than core words, but are still very useful for specific and personalized communication.
Nouns (person, place, or thing) are always fringe words, as are many verbs (action words),
adjectives and adverbs (describing words). For example, “get” is a core word, while “obtain”, “buy”,
“grab”, and “purchase” are fringe words. “Get” is a powerful word that can stand in for “obtain”,
“buy”, “grab”, and “purchase”, but there are times when it is useful to be able to use the more
specific words. Be sure to look at the Secondary level of the Home page (also shown in Figure 1),
which you can reach by the More button in the bottom right corner of the page. For smaller grid
sizes, some of the less frequently used categories can be found on the Secondary level. As the grid
size increases, more and more of the fringe folders will be able to fit on the Primary level of the
Home page.
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4x4 Home Page, Primary
4x4 Home Page, Secondary
6x6 Home Page, Primary
6x6 Home Page, Secondary
10x10 Home Page, Primary
10x10 Home Page, Secondary
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Nouns - People, Places, and Things
Nouns are organized in folders by category, and you can find buttons to navigate to these
categories on the Home page. On each of these fringe pages you will also find core words that are
useful for making sentences when talking about these categories. For example, on the food pages,
you’ll find words like “want”, “eat”, and “drink”.
Note that larger categories such as Food, People, Places, Things, Fun, or Sports have folders of
subcategories to make it easier to narrow down your search. You may need to go to the Secondary
level of a folder to see some of the less frequently used subcategories. Some folders, like Fun,
Food, Places, People, Actions, and Describing Words may have frequently used words on the
Primary level and folders for subcategories in the Secondary level. You can always customize your
vocabulary by moving subcategories around to make it easier to find ones that are personal
favorites. Also note that for larger grid sizes, sometimes subcategories are directly accessible from
the Home page. For example, for grid size 8x14 and up, Family and Friends folders are on the
Home page so you don’t have to go through People to get to them.
6x6 Things, Primary
6x6 Things, Secondary
6x6 Fun, Primary
6x6 Fun, Secondary
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Noun Categories
• People
• Family
• Friends
• Teachers
• Jobs
• TV-Movie people
• Characters
• Health care
• Jobs
• Music people
• Sports people
• News people
• Historical people
• Authors
• Places
• Building parts
• Community places
• Famous places
• Home places
• Outdoor places
• Restaurants
• School places
• Stores
• Work
• Special events
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• Things
• Body parts
• Clothing
• Personal care
• Furniture
• Appliances
• Animals
• Art supplies
• Office and school
supplies
• Vehicles
• Events
• Computers
• Electronics
• Nature
• Adaptive equipment
• Cleaning
• DVDs
• Games
• Holiday things
• Household
• Leisure activities
• Medical
• Money
• Music
• Parts of buildings
• Reading
• Sports
• Thinking things
• Tools
• Toys
• Spring things
• Summer things
• Fall things
• Winter things
• Food
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Snacks
• Dinner
• Drinks
• Desserts
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Candy
• Eating utensils
• Cooking utensils
• Ingredients
• Condiments
• Meats
• Side dishes
Time
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• Days of the week
• Months
• Holidays
• Special events
• Times of day
• Seasons
• Fun
• Computers
• DVDs
• Electronics
• Leisure
• Music
• Games
• Reading
• Shows
• Sports
• Toys
• TV
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Verbs - Action words
Verbs are action words like “run”, “walk”, “sit”. Many action words are less active – “like”, “see”,
“have”, “know”. Action words are very frequently used and very powerful in English, so we’ve tried to
have as many as possible on the Home page. Verbs can also be very hard to categorize in a way
that makes it easy to find. For this reason we’ve taken a bit of a different strategy with the Actions
fringe page than we have with fringe pages for most noun categories.
If you’ve chosen Intermediate Core as your vocabulary level, you will see that the Actions fringe
page has a number of useful verbs on it that you can find without having to go into a subcategory.
You’ll see different words depending on the grid size you’ve chosen. As with the Home page, we’ve
chosen verbs that are the most frequently used and most powerful, and we show as many as we
can fit at each grid size. Often these are verbs that will show up on the Home page at larger grid
sizes, but at the current grid size there is not room for them on the Home page. For example, at
4x4, the verb “get” doesn’t appear on the Home page due to lack of space. It does appear on the
primary level of the Action words page, because it is a highly useful word. At 6x6, there is room for
“get” on the Home page. This means there is no need to put “get” on the Actions words page, as
you can easily find the word on the Home page. This gives more room on the Action words page for
other useful verbs that don’t appear on the Home page at 6x6.
6x6 Home, Actions Primary, and Actions Secondary
There are many more useful verbs than there is room on the Action page to display them. These
verbs are organized in subcategories. Some of these subcategories are relatively easy to
understand (like “Sensing” and “Feeling”) while others are more abstract (like “Thinking” or
“Telling”). For some verbs it was hard to identify a single subcategory that the verb logically
belonged in, so some verbs are in two subcategories. For Intermediate Core, if you don’t see these
subcategory folders when you go to the Actions folder, tap the More button to go to the secondary
level of the folder.
If you’ve chosen Advanced Core for your vocabulary level, you won’t see any verb buttons when
you open the Action words folder - instead, you’ll see only the subcategory folders. You’ll need to do
one extra layer of navigating to get to the verb you want.
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Here are the verb categories, with examples:
• Helper: Auxiliary verbs – can, will, would, might, may
• Thinking: actions that happen in your head – think, believe, know, guess, hope, learn, remember
• Feeling: actions that involve your emotions – care, fight, laugh, kiss, win
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• Sensing: actions that involve the five senses – look, smell, taste, touch, hear
• Telling: actions that involve giving or getting information to others – ask, call, sing, tease, teach,
whisper, talk
• Things: actions that you do to things – clean, open, pull, move, throw, use
• Body: actions that a body does, or that you do to a body – eat, hit, sleep, wait, touch
• Having: actions that involve possession – belong, get, have, keep, share, buy
• Making: actions that involve creating – change, cook, build, fix, play, work, finish, draw
• Place: actions that involve locations – go, drive, find, follow, stay, visit
• A-Z: 26 folders will all the verbs organized alphabetically
Below is a list of the verbs we’ve chosen for the Home page and top level of the Action words for
Intermediate core, from most frequently used to least frequently used.
Intermediate Core Verbs
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want
go
do
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like
stop
have
help
see
get
can
come
eat
need
open
put
make
turn
know
play
take
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give
say
think
change
work
could
tell
will
would
call
look
love
drink
use
show
sit
start
try
watch
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carry
fall
leave
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listen
move
should
hear
keep
pick
remember
talk
wait
wash
close
hold
push
stay
buy
catch
cut
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guess
run
stand
walk
ask
decide
drive
fly
grow
live
ride
throw
care
read
wear
write
taste
let
feel
meet
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Adjectives and Adverbs - Describing words
Adjectives describe things (e.g. “blue”, “pretty”, “little”) and adverbs describe actions or other
adjectives (e.g. “quickly”, “very”, “too”). Like verbs, adjectives can also be very hard to categorize in
a way that makes them easy to find. For this reason we’ve used the same strategy in organizing the
Describing words fringe page as we have with the Action words folder.
If you’ve chosen Intermediate Core as your vocabulary level, you will see that the Describing fringe
page has a number of useful adjectives and adverbs on it that you can use without having to go into
a sub-category. You’ll see different words depending on the grid size you’ve chosen. As with the
Home page, we’ve chosen adjectives that are the most frequently used and most powerful and we
show as many as we can fit at each grid size. Often these are adjectives that will show up on the
Home page at larger grid sizes, but at the current grid size there is not room for them on the Home
page. For example, at 5x5, the adjective “good” doesn’t appear on the Home page due to lack of
space. It does appear on the primary level of the Describing words page, because it is a highly
useful word. At 6x5, there is room for “good” on the Home page. This means there is no need to put
“good” on the Describing words page, as you can easily use the word on the Home page. This gives
more room on the Describing words page for other useful adjectives that don’t appear on the Home
page.
5x5 Home, Describing Words Primary, and Describing Words Secondary
There are many more adjectives and adverbs than there is room on the Describing words page to
display them. These adjectives and adverbs are organized in subcategories. Some of these
subcategories are relatively easy to understand (like “Looks like” and “Feelings”) while others are
more abstract (like “Thinking” or “Opposites”). For some adjectives and adverbs it was hard to
identify a single subcategory that the word logically belonged in, so some words are in two
subcategories. For Intermediate Core, if you don’t see these subcategory folders when you go to
the Describing words folder, tap the More button to go to the secondary level of the folder.
If you’ve chosen Advanced Core for your vocabulary level, you won’t see any adjective or adverb
buttons when you open the Describing words folder - instead, you’ll see only the subcategory
folders. You’ll need to do one extra layer of navigating to get to the word you want.
Here are the Describing word categories, with examples:
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Positive: general positive attributes – good, nice, favorite, fun, wonderful
Negative: general negative attributes – bad, mean, lame, strange, wrong
Looks like: describes what you see – pretty, neat, crooked, bright, shiny
Sounds like: describes what you hear – loud, quiet, high, low, noisy
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• Smells like: describes what you smell – stinky, smelly
• Tastes like: describes what you taste – delicious, yummy, yucky, salty, spicy
• Feels like: describes what you notice with your sense of touch – rough, smooth, bumpy, sticky,
sharp, soft, wet
• Size and speed: big, little, fast, slow, short, tall, fat, thin
• How much / How many: describing quantity – full, almost, far, again, none, enough
• Opposites: a catch-all category with words – same, different, hard, easy, broken, fixed, old, new
• Shopping: cheap, fit, rich, free, sizes
• Weather: adjectives, and some nouns and verbs to describe and talk about the weather
• Abstract: more advanced describing words – famous, alive, true, independent
• Colors
• Shapes
• A-Z: 26 folders will all the adjectives and adverbs organized alphabetically
Below is a list of the adjectives and adverbs we’ve chosen for the Home page and top level of the
Describing words for Intermediate core, from most frequently used to least frequently used.
Intermediate Core Describing Words
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fun
big
different
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new
long
full
first
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very
happy
nice
pretty
clean
dry
hungry
ready
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quick
bad
little
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favorite
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hurt
mad
sorry
tired
far
ugly
mean
same
most
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Little Words
“Little Words” is an informal term which refers to those very frequently used words that are needed
to make grammatical sentences, but which don’t have much meaning by themselves. Traditionally
“Little Words” includes words like “to”, “the”, “a”, “and”, “that”, “here”, “of”, “for”, “with”, “in”, “off”,
“can”, will”.
In formal grammatical terms, Little Words are often categorized as prepositions, articles,
demonstrative pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions. However, most people find it hard to
classify these words in these abstract categories, so it can be difficult for AAC users and those
working with them to find these words if they’re stored in folders labeled with these formal
grammatical names. The approach we’ve taken with Crescendo is that when useful Little Words
won’t fit on the Home page, we put them in a folder named “Little Words”. We may also put the
words in a folder with their grammatical category, so if you know a word is a conjunction, auxiliary
verb, or preposition, you can find it there. But most of the time you can go right to Little Words to
find any little grammatical word that isn’t on the Home page.
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As with Action words and Describing words, we try to keep the most useful Little Words on the
Home page as grid space allows. Once the grid size is big enough to contain a Little Word, that
Little Word will no longer appear in the Little Words folder. Instead, the space is used for other Little
Words that may be useful.
Below is a list of the Little Words we’ve chosen for the Home page and the Little Words folder, from
most frequently used to least frequently used.
Core Little Words
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Prepositions - Where words
Prepositions usually tell you where something is in space or time. Some common prepositions are
“in”, “off”, “up”, “under”, “by”, “with”. Other prepositions are harder to classify as describing the
“where” of something. For example, when we say “this is for you”, “for” is a preposition, but what
position does it describe? For this reason, we put many commonly used prepositions in both the
Little Words and Where folders. That way, you have a better chance of finding the word even if you
don’t know it’s a preposition. Prepositions that already appear on the Home page for the current grid
size will not appear in the Where? or Little Words folder for that grid size.
Below is a list of the prepositions we’ve chosen for the Home page and the Where folder, from most
frequently used to least frequently used.
Core Prepositions
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Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words that link together other words or phrases to form longer sentences.
Examples include “and”, “or”, “but”, “so”, “as”, “if”, “until”. You can find these words in the
Conjunctions folder. Conjunctions that already appear on the Home page for the current grid size
will not appear in the Conjunctions folder for that grid size.
Below is a list of the conjunctions we’ve chosen for the Home page and the Conjunctions folder,
from most frequently used to least frequently used.
Core Conjunctions
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Questions
In Crescendo, the Question Words folder contains three kinds of buttons:
• Question words (what, where, who, how, why, which)
• Frequently used questions and question starters (What’s next, What’s that, What time is it)
• Forms of “Do” for starting questions like “Doesn’t it look like rain?” “Did he want a cookie?”
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Question words that already appear on the Home page for the current grid size will not appear in
the Questions folder for that grid size.
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Which Words
These words are articles, pronouns, and adverbs that narrow down “which” thing or person you’re
talking about. Examples include “the”, “a”, “that”, “all”, “anybody”, “everything”, “nowhere”. You can
find these words in the “Which?” folder. Which words that already appear on the Home page for the
current grid size will not appear in the Which folder for that grid size.
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everywhere
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anybody
anything
anywhere
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Practice Sentences
Here are some sentences you can use to practice finding words in Crescendo. You can try the
sentences with a variety of grid sizes, using the Intermediate Core vocabulary level. Start each
sentence on the Home page. You’ll notice that the larger the grid size, the less navigating you’ll
need to do to find the words. You’ll find some hints in italics under some of the sentences.
• I want to go there.
If “to” isn’t on the Home page, you can tap and hold “go” to get the infinitive “to go”.
• Could you come here now?
If the grid size is too small to have these words on the Home page, here’s where to look:
• could - Actions
• come - Actions
• here - Where?
• now - Time
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• What is that?
If the grid size is too small to have these words on the Home page, here’s where to look:
• is - Actions
• that - Little Words or Which?
• Final “?” can be found in Questions
• I want to go with them.
• If “with” isn’t on the Home page, look in Little Words
• them - tap and hold “they” to get them. If “they” isn’t on the home page, go to People. If it’s
not on the main People page, go to Pronouns popup.
• I wouldn’t do that until later.
• If “would” is on the Home page or the Actions page, you can get “wouldn’t” by tapping and
holding “would”. You can also get “wouldn’t do” by tapping and holding “do”, tapping “not”
and going to Present.
• until is in Conjunctions
• If “later” is not on the Home page, go to Time and tap and hold “late”.
• That is just wrong.
• just - from grid size 7x7 and up can be found on every adjective page as it’s on the
adjective template
• wrong - Describing Words > Negative or Chat > Negative Comments
• that - Home page, Little Words, or Which?
• I would like something else.
• If “would” isn’t on the Home page, tap and hold “like” and go to Present to find “would like”.
• If “some” is on the Home page, tap and hold to get something. If “some” is not on the
home page, go to Which? for something.
• else - Conjunctions
• I would like something different.
If different isn’t on the Home page, go to Describing Words > Opposites
• I believe in you.
• believe - Actions > Thinking Verbs
• He hurt my feelings.
• he - depending on grid size, can be found on:
• Home page
• People
• People > Pronouns popup
• hurt can be found in multiple places:
• Help > My Body
• Describing Words > Feelings
• Actions > Feeling Verbs
• my - tap and hold “I” to get my
• feelings - Describing Words > Feelings, tap and hold “feeling” to get feelings
• Where was it when you saw it last?
• where and when - if not on the Home page, go to Questions
• was - tap and hold “is”, tap he / she / it
• saw - if “see” is not on the Home page, got to Actions. If it’s not on the first page, go to
Sensing Verbs. Tap and hold “see” to get saw
• last - Time > Order words popup
• ? - Questions
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