Your First Week with SpeakPad
New to AAC? Here's what to expect from set-up to your child's first tapped-out sentence, and the one habit that matters more than any setting.
Read the guideMake Modelling a Daily Habit
Modelling works when the adults keep doing it. How to build the habit at home, with the pause, add-a-word and comment skills to layer on top.
Read the guideEditing Boards: Caregiver Mode
A tour of the tools behind the parental gate: the board editor, adding words and boards, and what lives under Settings and More.
Read the guideVisual Scene Displays
Turn a real photo of a bedroom, playground, or kitchen into a tappable communication board, and learn when a scene works better than a grid.
Read the guideBackups and New Devices
How SpeakPad backs up automatically, how to move everything to a new iPhone or iPad, and how to keep two devices in sync.
Read the guideSwitch Scanning Setup
Set up switch access for a child who can't reliably tap the screen: scan patterns, scan modes, and pairing a physical switch.
Read the guideChoosing a Voice
Pick a voice your child likes, download better Apple voices for free, and fix tricky pronunciations.
Read the guideBilingual Setup
Show two languages on every button and switch voices, in any combination of the 9 supported languages.
Read the guideUsage Reports for Therapists
See which words a child uses, then export the data or a formatted PDF report for therapy and school review meetings.
Read the guideProfiles on a Shared iPad
Separate boards, voices, and data for each child on one device, with quick switching for therapists.
Read the guideTyping and Word Prediction
The Type button, keyboard boards, and prediction that learns from your child's own words.
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