Ever so often someone designs an iPhone app that’s not a game, that’s not got anything to do with sex or making flatulent sounds but everything to do actually using the handset’s potential to help those who can’t help themselves. Martin Brooks of St Albans, Hertfordshire was determined to use his new iPhone to interact with the love of his life, his young daughter suffering from born with cerebral palsy, in the best way possible. Working with for months developing a system with Bappz, a firm which creates apps, he created iComm, a way for him and many other iPhone users to communicate with those who are unable to express themselves verbally. It’s a brilliant system that’s simple and easy to use and customize. It allows individuals like Brooks’ daughter Mia to visually communicate with her parents and other care givers relating her needs and wants through visual cues to which verbal dialogue can be attached.

More than 1,300 people have downloaded iComm since it was made available on Apple's app store in March of this year. A basic version of iComm, which also works on the iPad, is available for free from the AppStore. The full version, which is usually £15.99 ($24), is currently available for £1.79 ($2.65).

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