EasyVSD is an app in the research stage that is a tool to aid in communication for children at risk of not learning how to speak. This is done through a VSD environment that is easily and quickly added too and edited in order to make a clinician able to add language to the device during the play activity. This app was initially developed through an SBIR Phase 2 grant through NIH by InvoTek Inc and Penn State. It is currently being updated for research purposes under the RERC on AAC based at Penn State. Updates as part of the RERC on AAC include:
1. Sight word transition to literacy
2. Decoding transition to literacy
3. Video Visual Scene Displays (vVSD)

The additions to this app were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant numbers: 90RE5017 and 90REGE0014) to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this app do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.