| LayoutKitchen™ is an editor for SwitchXS™ scan panels
and Proloquo™ speech panels. SwitchXS users can use LayoutKitchen
to create their own scan panels (sometimes also referred to as scan keyboards)
with just those keys, controls and functions they need, thereby greatly enhancing
the power and versatility of SwitchXS. Proloquo users can use LayoutKitchen
to create their own speech panels for easy access of commonly used phrases
or, when images are used on the buttons, to build communication panels for
people who cannot read or write. LayoutKitchen is included with SwitchXS,
while Proloquo users can purchase LayoutKitchen
as an add-on. 
LayoutKitchen provides many features for creating highly customized
panels with colored background, labels and buttons, with many types
of images, and with a variety of powerful functions.
Beginners can start by reusing buttons from existing panels and create more
complex panels as they become comfortable with LayoutKitchen. To accommodate
a variety of users, LayoutKitchen provides both mouse-based (drag and drop)
and keyboard-based interfaces (keyboard shortcuts) for many actions and also
includes functions making it easier for switch users to design their own
panels with limited mouse use.
A great companion to LayoutKitchen is PCS for LayoutKitchen,
which is purchased separately. PCS for LayoutKitchen contains a collection
of over 8000 Picture Communication Symbols™ from Mayer-Johnson that
can be used with LayoutKitchen to design speech panels for Proloquo as well
as scanning panels for SwitchXS. These industry-standard picture symbols are
in color and fully-resizable.
LayoutKitchen key-features
- Layout editor for SwitchXS and Proloquo.
- Supports colored panel background, button labels and buttons.
- Supports full-color images of any size on buttons in many graphic formats
(including PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PSD, PDF).
- Adjustable text font, size and style per button.
- Provides drag and drop editing of buttons, colors and images.
- Includes advanced functions to organize and arrange buttons.
- Allows a wide range of functions to be assigned to buttons, from speech
to text to AppleScripts and keyboard macros.
- Includes a quick-access image browser.
- Works with the over 8000 Picture Communication Symbols™ from Mayer-Johnson,
available for separate purchase as PCS for LayoutKitchen.
Downloads:
A time constrained (15-day period) full version of LayoutKitchen
is available for evaluation from our demonstration
page. The LayoutKitchen
manual is
available for download. Features: - Multi-purpose Graphical Panel Editor
- Make Custom Panels for SwitchXS and Proloquo
- Make custom Panels using Practically any Photographs
- Use PCS Symbols for LayoutKitchen to build Panels with Mayer-Johnson
Symbols
- Build Panels to Call Applescripts
- Custom Panels can be Built with a Mouse or Keyboard Equivalents
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