Talking Photo Album

• Flexible & Simple to Use
• Digitized speech = Multilingual
• Hundreds of uses
• Low Cost - $29 plus shipping and handling

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

Individuals 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.

Individuals can use TPAs to give instructions, to begin a conversation, to tell stories, to record autobiographical information, to facilitate daily conversation, to order in a restaurant, to facilitate memory and for scores of other purposes.

Pictures That Talk: New Ways to Use Talking Photo Albums by Juli Trautman Pearson and Harvey Pressman.  A 177 page book designed to help assistive technology personnel, teachers, clinicians, aides, and others use Talking Photo Albums more broadly and more creatively.  Features 65 concrete ideas (eight in Spanish) to support independence, promote communication between families and professionals, enhance social networking, facilitate communication, and improve students’ social interaction skills and success 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. 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).