The words for Wednesday, on every device
Build this week’s vocabulary yourself, see who is stuck before Friday, and let the device do the counting while you teach.
Does this sound like your week?
The words are not on the devices yet
Wednesday is the field trip, and getting new vocabulary onto students’ devices depends on someone else’s schedule.
You collect data while you teach
Tally marks during a lesson, with eight students and very different needs.
You find out who is stuck on Friday
By the time you notice a student has not touched an activity, a week has gone.
The notebook never comes back
Families want to know how the day went, and the home-school book is not how they find out.
How it works
Real screens from our demonstration district. The students are invented; nothing else is.
Make the vocabulary yourself
Describe a category, “Grocery store trip”, choose how many tiles and a picture style, and get tiles with images and spoken audio. Check every one, swap any picture, record your own voice, then send it to the students in your class. The family approves what is installed. Nothing reaches a child’s device without an adult reviewing it.
See who is stuck, this week
Build a short activity with the same words, or describe a goal and let the lesson pack draft a set for you to review. Assign it to the class, and the board shows every student’s progress: not started, in progress, mastered, and stalled, after a number of days you choose.
Data you do not have to tally
When a student uses their device in a way that matches their goal, it is proposed as a trial. You confirm it later, when you have a minute, and say what support was given. If it got it wrong, you mark it “not a trial”.
IEP goals for the class, then for each child
Write a goal once for a class and it becomes each student’s own goal, with their own data. Then write any individual goal in full: condition, criterion, baseline, and the words on the device that count toward it.
Tell the family
Share a two-line note with the family, about something the student actually did today. They read it in their free app that evening, and they can reply.
What stays yours
You review everything first
Every AI-drawn tile and drafted lesson is yours to check before a student sees it.
Nothing counts until you confirm it
The device proposes. You say what support was given.
Families approve first
Connections and category installs are approved by the family.
The child never pays
epSpeak is free for every student, permanently.
What it does not do yet
Better you hear it here than halfway through a term.
- Automatic trial proposals come from epSpeak. Students on other AAC systems can have trials logged by hand.
- In the free week you can build and preview categories and lessons. Sending them to real devices starts when you subscribe.
- There is no feature for assigning practice to families at home yet.
- The phone app is on Android now, with iPhone coming soon. Everything here works in the web portal, including on a Chromebook.
Questions
I do not have time to learn another system.
Try it on the sample students first. They are already loaded in the free week, so there is nothing to set up. If it is more work than what you do now, stop.
The SLP owns the device vocabulary.
Many teams work that way, which is a good reason to try it together. Either of you can build categories, and the family approves what goes on the device.
Could the AI put something inappropriate on a device?
Not without you. You review every tile before anything is sent, and you can replace any picture or sound.
What does it cost?
For a teacher buying for themselves, the Practitioner plan is $39.99 a month or $399.99 a year. Schools and districts license seats per clinician, by quote, never per student.
Try it with the sample students
Seven days, sample students already loaded. Bring your SLP: you are the two people your director needs to hear from.