A complete visual-communication system for the minimally vocal early-intervention learner — picture-exchange boards, sentence strips, a communication book, and a fillable phase tracker. English and Spanish, in one purchase.
When a minimally vocal learner has no reliable way to request, reject, or comment, the behavior becomes the message. You know the fix is functional communication — but building boards, strips, and a phase system from scratch, in two languages, eats the hours you don't have.
This kit is that system, already built — so you can put a voice in a child's hands on day one.
High-frequency core words plus domain fringe — Food, Home, Places, School, Toys, Actions — ready to print and point.
"I want," choice arrays, and sentence-starter strips that move a learner from single-exchange to combined requests.
Carrier-phrase strips and a build-your-own communication book — assemble a request, then read it back. Print, laminate, velcro.
Emotion vocabulary in English and Spanish so a learner can label internal states, not just request items.
A printable, fillable tracker to log where each learner is in the picture-exchange progression — mastery dates, criteria, notes.
An original picture-symbol library — Actions, Core Words, Emotions (EN & ES), Food, Home, Places, School, Toys.
Plus a Quick-Start Implementation Guide so you walk in with a protocol, not a stack of loose pages.
Most AAC materials are English-first, with Spanish bolted on later — if at all. This kit is built in both, on purpose, so the symbols, feelings, and carrier phrases work the same whether the home language is English or Spanish. For the families who need it most, that's the difference between a tool they'll actually use and one that gathers dust.
Every board is built to teach a functional communication response — a request that's easier than the problem behavior it replaces. The progression supports the standard picture-exchange sequence (single exchange → discrimination → sentence-building → commenting), and the kit references the AAC evidence base it's built on, right inside.
The symbols are original artwork. The structure is the one I actually use in EI sessions. It takes the child — and you — seriously.
Yes — both editions are included in one purchase. The Spanish edition isn't a translation afterthought; the symbols, feelings, and carrier phrases are built in Spanish too.
Both. The PDFs are designed to print and laminate (velcro the symbols for exchange), and the phase tracker is a fillable PDF you can complete on a device or on paper.
No. The kit aligns with and supports the standard picture-exchange progression, but it's a materials-and-tracking system, not a replacement for formal training in the protocol.
EI BCBAs, SLPs, special-education teachers, and RBTs working with minimally vocal early learners (roughly 18 months–6 years) — and the families partnering with them.
Single-user for your own caseload/classroom. For a center or multi-room license, email hello@emobehaviorlab.com.