SpeakPad
AAC Communication for Children. A simple, symbol-based communication board for iPad that helps children express themselves through pictures and speech.
Download on the App Store
SpeakPadAAC Communication for Children. A simple, symbol-based communication board for iPad that helps children express themselves through pictures and speech.
Download on the App Store
Children tap symbols to build sentences, then hear them spoken aloud using the device's built-in voice.
Caregivers can add, edit, and organise vocabulary items with custom images, labels, and pronunciations.
No data collection. No accounts. No internet required. Everything stays locally on your device.
Built for Apple's Kids Category. No ads, no in-app purchases, no external links accessible to children.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) helps people who have difficulty with spoken language to communicate.
SpeakPad provides a grid of picture symbols that children can tap to build phrases and sentences, which are then spoken aloud by the iPad. The rigid grid structure supports motor planning—meaning buttons never move, allowing a child to learn locations via muscle memory.
SpeakPad includes a caregiver area (protected by a strict parental gate) where you can customise the communication board, manage vocabulary, create sub-boards for different topics, and back up your data to iCloud.
Parents and Speech Language Therapists (SLTs) can adjust settings—such as touch repeat intervals and grid sizes—to perfectly suit an emerging communicator's needs.
Designed with Fitzgerald Key coloring for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more. Visual consistency speeds up language acquisition.
Words flow naturally into the message bar, enabling emerging communicators to string together full thoughts and sentences effortlessly.
Locked behind a parental gate, caregivers can adjust the grid size, edit vocabulary, create custom folders, and manage child profiles safely.
SpeakPad is built specifically for children with speech or language impairments who would benefit from a dedicated symbol-based AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) tool.
Provides a clear, predictable communication pathway for non-speaking or minimally speaking autistic children.
Removes the physical motor planning barriers of spoken language by providing an easy-to-use visual framework.
Supports early intervention and bridges the gap between receptive and expressive language skills.
Accommodates diverse motor skills with highly customisable grid sizes, iOS Switch Control support, and touch accommodations.
We know Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and pathologists rely on evidence-based design. SpeakPad's core architecture was developed around three non-negotiable principles:
SpeakPad is a reliable, robust tool to send home with parents for daily use between therapy sessions.
SpeakPad includes over 3,400 symbols from the Mulberry Symbol Set — an open-source, CC BY-SA 4.0 collection of crisp, recognisable SVG symbols created exclusively for AAC use.