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There are several different types of AAC Flip Books on the internet and several of them are FREE to download and print. 

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There are several different types of AAC Flip Books on the internet and several of them are FREE to download and print. 

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The Importance of Modeling how to use the Core Word Board and Flip Book

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The Importance of Modeling how to use the Core Word Board and Flip Book

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Worcestershire Speech and Language Therapy

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Saltillo's FREE Printable AAC Flip Books

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Saltillo's FREE Printable AAC Flip Books

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A low-tech option is a great tool as a back-up to the dedicated solution, use for modeling or during water activities. These low-tech printable options are available to support some of the WordPower ™ files. Pre-made downloadable options are offered for the WordPower42 Basic, 60 Basic, 60 and the 108 location files. Note the 108 location option will include a full page flip to verbs. WordPower48 Español Básico recently joined the WordPower low-tech family. The flipbook downloads include instructions to make the flipbooks for these great low-tech options. These options are designed with flips to the access more vocabulary within various categories, similar to the way you would navigate the vocabulary on a NovaChat® or ChatFusion™.

*Please note that printers may have variations that cause downloaded pages do not line up perfectly. It is recommended to print, laminate, cut and check the alignment of the flips before you punch holes. Adjust by cutting or aligning flips before punching holes.

You will find personal manual communication board options and poster size options. The manual communication boards can be printed on standard or legal size paper. The poster size options allow you to customize the size. We have tried printing at 34.5 by 53 inches with success. In addition to the 88 location Core Words Poster, you will find an option to download the individual core words (grouped 4 on a page) to create pull-offs to the poster or build the poster through individual buttons.

If you want to create your own customized low -tech option, check out the video tutorial providing you with a how-to demonstration. The ChatEditor software is used to customize the low tech options. Create a low-tech option using the customized NovaChat or ChatFusion file.

Virtual Background

Flip Options

Personal Manual Communication Boards

Cantonese Translation
Russian Translation
Japanese Translation
Traditional Chinese Translation
Poster

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Vicki Clarke & AAC Chicks at DTA Schools

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What Are Core Words? Vocabulary to Increase Communication

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Using a Large Core Word Board with Book Reading

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Using a Large Core Word Board with Book Reading

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Read Aloud using a Core Language Board with Gina from The Autism Helper

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Using a Large Core Word Board in your Classroom

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Using a Large Core Word Board in your Classroom

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Make a Flip Book from the Communication App

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Make a Flip Book from the Communication App

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For many reasons it can be useful to create a paper-based communication book of your vocabulary. It gives you a backup communication system if anything should happen to your iPad. At different times, in different environments it can be very handy to have a paper copy! Perhaps the AAC user has more success accessing their communication in a book like this! And if we are trying to do more modeling in the AAC app, your paper-based book is just another way to do it!

I have created the entire vocabulary in this book and it was quite a job! However it is also okay to print and laminate a few pages to use in a specific way, eg. all the food pages to have a copy in the kitchen. This book is based on a 5X9 Grid in Proloquo2Go's Intermediate Core vocabulary, but you can use any AAC app to create a paper-based version.

Making a paper-based AAC book

1. Move the vocabulary you need to the primary folder

Learn how in this Support article. I did this so that all the words we would need would be on one page - which is easier to print and include in the book. It would have taken longer to print and make this book if I was using both primary and secondary folders of the vocabulary.

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How to make a communication book - AssistiveWare

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AssistiveWare's Amanda, Speech Language Pathologist, shares how to create a paper-based AAC book of your vocabulary. With it you will always have a backup communication system if anything should happen to your device.

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We love the versatility of flip books and charts. They are a great format option for communication books, particularly the flip books that have a static 'base' and a set of strips/mini pages that you can flip through for additional vocabulary. Once you have a template, it's not too difficult to make a number of them that fit different purposes.

Here are some resources to explore.

1. SET-BC has wonderful material on communication supports including a brief video about flip books here. They also have some terrific downloads, including this one by Kathy Ryan.

2. Flip 'n Talk has been around for a long time, but it continues to be a really useful tool. We typically have the core language as the static portion, but here's an example of doing it the other way around.

3. There are so many ways to use flip books for language learning. We love this one for practicing vocabulary in the Unity program.

4. Flip books are great alternative pencils for free writing. The flip book method of providing access to the alphabet was first introduced to us by Karen Erickson of the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies. The TTAC consortium (Virginia) has a great post about using them within a Four Block model, but they can be used for lots of writing activities.

5. Flip books can be useful for visual schedules, too. Here's a great example by Kate Ahern of Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs.

6. Need a stand to hold your flip chart so that your hands are free to support the learner? Here is one option for a DIY easel.

Filed under: PrAACtical Thinking

Tagged With: communication book, flip book

This post was written by Carole Zangari

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We love the versatility of flip books and charts. They are a great format option for communication books, particularly the flip books that have a static 'base' and a set of strips/mini pages that y...

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Closing the Gap 35th Annual conference - October 18-20, 2017

Learning outcomes: As a result of this session, participants will be able to:

In our efforts to offer access to robust dynamic screen vocabularies, sometimes we forget to slow down and offer explicit feedback for page-changing.Parallel use of a printed FlipBook shows what item to select BEFORE the page changes.Talk about what the symbols mean and predict what items are linked to a symbol on his/her high tech system.Use paper displays with multiple partners, in the pool, with a flashlight.Simulating Hide/Show, VocabularyBuilder, and Progressive Language, paper-based examples will be shown for focused instruction of specific target vocabulary.We will share resources for downloading pre-made displays and making them indestructible.

This session will share our strategies and stories about using paper-based displays in parallel with high tech systems.We are definitely not proposing that this would be a pre-cursor to high tech systems, but a strategy to supplement learning.

Paper-Based AAC FlipBooks - What are they? Why do they matter?

Use paper-based displays at the pool, in brightly lit rooms, and in darker rooms with a flashlight.Use them when the high tech device is low on battery, or when the user doesn't want to share his/her high tech device for aided language input.Use with overlays and cut-outs for target with complete access to the full vocabulary when needed - faster than using hide/show in TouchChat and much like turning on/off Vocabulary Builder, Exploring vocabulary in Proloquo2Go when Progressive Language is turned on, and Babbling with SpeakForYourself.

How to find them and make them indestructible.

1. Look on Amazon for paper that is weatherproof, waterproof and/or tear-proof (e.g., TerraSlate, Rite in the Rain, Xerox Waterproof Multipurpose Paper). You may need to use a laser printer.

2. Look on-line for paper-based displays that use Mayer-Johnson PCS, SymbolStix and Pixon images. Here are some examples:

Speak For Yourself (with category indexes, make your own flip book from device screen shots)

Ahern, Kate. http://www.slideshare.net/teechkidz/bringing-aac-home-fcsn

Enders, Lauren.Moving beyond a Common roadblock to Successful AAC Implementation. June/July, 2016 edition of Closing The Gap Solutions

Mirenda, P. (2008). "A back door approach to autism and AAC." Augmentative and Alternative Communication. 24, 219-233.

Please let us know where you look for other resources on aided language input and communication displays (for download or purchase).

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Paper-Based AAC FlipBooks: When, How, Why do they matter? Proposal for Closing the Gap 35th Annual conference - October 18-20, 2017 ...