There are many disabilities that affect a person’s ability to speak. As such, alternatives to verbal communication are often sought. These alternatives are referred to as Augmented and Alternative Communication Systems (AACs). An AAC can be either high-tech or low/no-tech. While many AACs require a user to type out what they want spoken, there are also AACs that rely on symbols for communication. With symbol based AACs, when the user clicks on the image, the device speaks aloud the text that represents that image. For this assignment, students will work to create a simple version of a symbol-based AAC device using maps to implement the backend. For the students to get the AAC working, they are asked to write code that allows the AAC to read in the file to set up the AAC, add new categories and items within categories, return the locations of images that will be displayed on the GUI, respond to a users selection by either updating the category or returning text to be spoken, and writing the mapping back to a file.