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Communication board for school (special education)
Classroom and school-routine words: asking for help, saying you finished, that it is hard, where to go and what comes next. For the regular classroom and the resource room.
Opens a page ready to print or save as PDF. Print, copy and hand it out freely, at no cost.
What it is for
A student who does not speak, or speaks little, needs a way to say “I don’t get it”, “I finished”, “I need a break” without waiting for an adult to guess. This board combines people, actions, feelings, school supplies, places and routine words (now, later, first, finished), in the Fitzgerald colours used by the falatheo app.
How to use it, in three steps
- Tape one copy to the student’s desk and give another to the special-education teacher; word positions must match on every copy.
- Use it yourself: when giving an instruction, point to “first… later…”; when asking, point to “easy or hard?”.
- Agree on a signal for “I need the board” and accept any form of answer: pointing, gaze, gesture or speech.
Want to learn more? Read our practical AAC guide for families and schools.
The pictures are system emoji and may look slightly different depending on the computer or phone used to print. Word positions follow the falatheo app, so the paper board and the app match.
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The same words, with a voice
falatheo is a free AAC app, with no ads and 100% offline. Tap the words and the phone or tablet speaks them.
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