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TALKING PHOTO ALBUM AND IDEA BOOKS 

  • Low Cost - $29 plus s/h!
  • NEW Pictures That Talk IDEA BOOK. 
  • Flexible & Simple to Use
  • Digitized speech = Multilingual
  • Hundreds of uses
    Talking Photo Album

The Talking Photo Album (TPA) is a simple, inexpensive, easy-to-use digitized speech device that has many potential uses for adults and children. 

You can record four minutes of speech, 10 seconds at a time, in any language of your choice. You can use photos, book cutouts, symbols, drawings, Xeroxes, newspaper clippings, and/or text on each of its 24 pages.

You can use TPAs for instructions, to tell stories, to record autobiographical information, to facilitate daily conversation, to help order in restaurants, to facilitate memory and for scores of other purposes.

NEW! Pictures That Talk: New Ways to Use Talking Photo Albums by Juli Trautman Pearson and Harvey Pressman.  A new 177 page book designed to help assistive technology personnel, teachers, clinicians, aides, and all others use Talking Photo Albums more broadly and more creatively.  Features 65 concrete ideas (eight in Spanish) for using TPAs to support independence, promote communication between families and professionals, enhance social networking, facilitate communication, and improve students’ social interaction skills and their ability to succeed in school.  Includes a Win/Mac CD containing a printable PDF file of the entire book.

Download the printer-friendly  Pictures That Talk flyer with more information!

AAC Idea Book: Creative Ways to Use Talking Photo Albums, by Sarah W. Blackstone and Harvey Pressman, contains 21 ideas contributed by 14 AAC experts that help you get started. Ideas include: Talking Job Sequence, That was the Day/Week That Was, Social Scripts: Beyond a Single Turn, Talking Book, How to Assist with Daily Tasks, Oral Test Taking, and Activity Books. Download* sample idea now, in PDF format (102 Kb).

 

  • Talking Photo Album only

    $29 each
    plus $6 s/h
    ($27 each for ten or more  plus s/h)

    Talking Photo
    Album with Pictures
    That Talk


    $49 each
    plus $8 s/h.

    Pictures
    That Talk
    only

    $29 each
    plus $6 s/h
     

    AAC Idea Book only

    $18 each
    plus $3 s/h
    ($16 each for four or more plus s/h)

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    Augmentative Communication, Inc.     

    One Surf Way, #237
    Monterey, CA 93940
    Phone : (831) 649-3050
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