An AAC app that helps special needs / neurodivergent individuals in understanding the concept of day, month, time and helps them in transitioning between activities during the day.

An individual's day is made up on various significant or routine based activities and activities usually follow an order. eg.,

• wake up
• toothbrushing
• breakfast
• school
• home
• therapy

The premise of this app is to allow the care givers to setup these schedules for individuals and use this app throughout the day to notify the individuals as to what activity they are going to do next. Thus lowering the anxiety of the next unknown event that most individuals go through.

In addition to the learning about their day schedule, individuals can also learn about what is the current, day, date and month along with the time. The top half of the app acts as a dynamic calendar where the day, date, month and time automatically updates. Helping individuals learn about these over a period of time.   

A schedue is made of one or more activity/event that would occur in the order that they are added.

In the current version of the app, schedules can only be entered for the current day.

The day is divided into four day phases:

• morning (between 5am to 12pm),
• afternoon (from 12pm to 5pm)
• evening (from 5pm to 8pm)
• night (from 8pm onwards)

Schedules are created under different phases in the day (morning, afternoon, evening, night). 

Users can cycle between the schedules by tapping on the day phase tiles. i.e morning, afternoon, evening, night.

Searching tiles and creating a schedule under a day phase

Users can search from a rich library of AAC symbols and add it to the schedule as symbol tiles. When adding symbol tiles to schedule custom text is added for a tile. The app provides the ability to generate voice from symbol tiles text when the tile is pressed. 

The schedule is displayed based on which ever day phase (morning, afternoon, evening or night) the symbol tiles were added to.

To create a schedule for the current day, follow the steps below

1. Open the MyDay-AAC app.

2. On the home screen, tap on the day phase under which you want to create the schedule. eg, you can tap on morning, afternoon, evening or night tiles. 

3. Now tap on Add/Edit Schedule button. This will open the Edit Schedule page.

4. Tap on Add Symbol button. This will open Symbol Search page.

5. Tap in the symbol search field and enter the text for symbol you want to seaech for. eg., search for toothbrush. Tap on Search button. 

6. This will show all symbols found matching the search text. If no symbols are returned, then please refine your search text.

7. Tap on a symbol from the search results. This will open Symbol Details page.

8. Tap in the text field under the symbol and enter text that you want to associate with this tile. It is mandatory for text to be entered for a tile in order for it to be saved to the schedule.

9. After entering the text, tap on Add to schedule button. User will be navigated back to the home screen and the symbol tile will be added under the day phase that was selected by the user in step. 2.   

Editing schedule to reorder Symbol tiles

To edit already created schedule:

1. Open the MyDay-AAC app.

2. On the home screen, tap on the day phase for which you want to edit the schedule. eg, you can tap on morning, afternoon, evening or night tiles. 

3. Now tap on Add/Edit Schedule button. This will open the Edit Schedule page.

4. Tap on a tile to select it (The Selected Symbol label under the tile will display the name of the selected tile.

5. Tap Move Left or Move Right to reorder the tile.

6. Once done, tap Cancel to move back to Home Page where the updated tile order will be displayed.

Editing speech text or removing a Symbol tile

To edit the speech text for a tile or remove it from the schedule:

1. Open the MyDay-AAC app.

2. On the home screen, tap on the day phase for which you want to edit the schedule. eg, you can tap on morning, afternoon, evening or night tiles. 

3. Now tap on Edit/Remove Symbol button. This will highlight the symbols in the schedule with a red outline.

4. Tap on a symbol you want to edit or remove. This will open the Edit or Remove symbol page with the symbol dispayed along with its speech text.

5. You can update the speech text and tap Save or to remove the symbol completely from the schedule tap on Remove Symbol button.

6. Tapping on the Save or Remove Symbol will take you back to the Home Page with the updated scheduled being displayed.