I created this board in 2010, I am an AAC teacher. I have not been active since early 2011, because I stopped teaching and focused my attention starting my family. I realise this is an old message, but I wanted to take a moment to stress the importance of using a low tech communication system to teach a child how to communicate. You can't simply give them an interactive board an expect them to be successful communicators. The pull off communication book is used as a tool. The reason it is a pull off system is so that when introducing scanning through choice making you can start by only pulling off two or three symbols from the chosen category instead of expecting an early communicator to be able to be able to maintain focus for 8 or more choices. I hope you were able to find what you were looking for elsewhere.

The description says a focus on scanning for severe physical and cognitive impaired people. So why are the activities here not interactive (ie scanning) and have "pull off" tabs for physical pull off of books, etc? There should be no activitiy in this group that is not interactive (no physical printouts to manipulate) so that it can be used with a button, air or squeeze switch in my opinion. I can't find anything on this site that is very useable from an interactive standpoint as its overrun with non-interactive activities by far and you cannot even search for just the interactive ones. If anyone has any insights I would love the feedback. My child needs help and the school system just does not provide enough to help him really learn to communicate interactively, which he would be capable of if given the right tools and activities. He is spastic quadraplegic but can operate a switch, so I just need the right activities to engage him or otherwise everybody just plugs him into the TV and ignores him. Dial switch with pasted graphics don't cut it, he needs interactive activities on his TV screen that is connected to his computer... Thanks!