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

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).