Communication — assistive technology

Assorted components included in APH’s Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication including a variety of mounting cards in seven different colors and shapes, print guidebook, caulk tube, orange zipper, black and white spoons, fishing lure, steel washer, yellow puff ink, jingle bells, blue crescent shape, blue rubber ball, craft foam sheets (red, yellow, and blue), white needlepoint canvas, black plastic wire screen, adhesive-backed paper, vinyl sheets, and white hook coins/tabs.

Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication Tactile Connections is a hands-on kit for building a tangible AAC system for learners who are both nonverbal and have significant visual impairments or deafblindness — situations w

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STACS: Standardized Tactile Augmentative Communication Symbols STACS is a standardized set of tactile symbols designed to give learners who are deafblind or have combined vision and communication disabilities a consistent, tangible vocabulary

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$86.64

Trifold Board This portable three-panel board is covered entirely in hook-and-loop (Velcro-style) material, letting teachers and students attach tactile symbols, picture cards, object cues, or c

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DeafBlind Pocket Communicator Letter Side Close-up

$18.35

Deaf Blind Pocket Communicator A small, credit-card-sized plastic card with raised tactile lettering that lets a DeafBlind person communicate basic messages through touch — the partner reads raised text by feeli

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All components of the White Expandable Calendar Boxes kit laid out on a yellow background. Included are six white foam boxes attached to one another with black and white U-channels, two additional large black U-channels, six smaller white U-channels, and the print guidebooks placed in front.

$235.00

Expandable Calendar Boxes, White A set of small white compartmentalized boxes designed to hold objects that represent upcoming activities in a student's daily schedule. Each box holds a tangible symbol — a real ob

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Close up of an assortment of texture strips arrayed in a circle. The strips include flocked styrene, craft foam, and both rough and bumpy textures in a variety of colors.

$445.40

SENSEable STRIPS: Texture Strips Set This is a replacement set of textured tactile strips for the APH SENSEable STRIPS system, a hands-on literacy and communication tool designed for students who are blind or have sig

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$131.00

Spangle Tangle: Play and Explore Kit Spangle Tangle is a hands-on sensory play kit from APH designed for young children with visual impairments, particularly those who explore primarily through touch. The kit contains

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The multicolored acrylic My Sight eye anatomy puzzle on a yellow light box. The puzzle is translucent and lit from behind.

$357.00

My Sight Light Box Puzzle This is a backlit acrylic puzzle from APH designed to help students with visual impairments explore and communicate about their own vision. The pieces feature high-contrast colors

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$29.15

SAM - SYMBOLS AND MEANING Story Bag set (3 sizes) This is a set of three fabric story bags used in the SAM (Symbols and Meaning) curriculum — a literacy program developed by APH for students who are blind or have low vision and ar

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All components of the Black Expandable Calendar Boxes kit laid out on a yellow background. Included are six black foam boxes attached to one another with white U-channels, two additional large white U-channels, six smaller u-Channels, and the print guidebooks placed in front.

$235.00

Expandable Calendar Boxes, Black These modular calendar boxes create a tactile daily schedule system for students who communicate through touch and objects rather than pictures or words. Each box holds an object s

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A package of black rectangle-shaped cards (10 undrilled and 5 two-hole drilled)

$13.16

Tactile Connections and Match-It-Up Frames, Black Cards (pack of 15) These are replacement black background cards used within APH's Tactile Connections and Match-It-Up Frames systems — tactile symbol-based communication and matching tools designed f

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A package of red “barn”-shaped cards (10 undrilled and 5 two-hole drilled)

$13.19

Tactile Connections and Match-It-Up Frames, Red Cards (pack of 15) These are replacement red tactile cards used within APH's Tactile Connections and Match-It-Up Frames systems — two related early communication and concept-development programs for

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A package of green “house”-shaped cards (10 undrilled and 5 two-hole drilled)

$13.23

Tactile Connections, Green Cards (pack of 15) These are replacement green cards for the Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication kit — a tactile literacy system from APH designed to teach symbol-based communication conce

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A package of blue “puzzle”-shaped cards (10 undrilled and 5 two-hole drilled)

$13.20

Tactile Connections and Match-It-Up Frames, Blue Cards (pack of 15) These are replacement blue cards for two APH product lines: Tactile Connections (a symbol-based tactile communication system) and Match-It-Up Frames (a tactile matching and learnin

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A package of white “bread”-shaped cards (10 undrilled and 5 two-hole drilled) on a black background.

$13.20

Tactile Connections and Match-It-Up Frames, White Cards (pack of 15) These are blank white cards designed as replacement components for two APH tactile communication and matching curricula — Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication and Match-I

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A package of yellow “crown”-shaped cards (10 undrilled and 5 two-hole drilled).

$13.14

Tactile Connections and Match-It-Up Frames, Yellow Cards (pack of 15) These are replacement yellow cards for two APH tactile communication and matching systems — Tactile Connections (a symbol-based communication tool) and Match-It-Up Frames. The card

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SAM - Symbols and Meaning Kit SAM is a structured, hands-on curriculum kit from APH designed to teach the relationship between real objects, photographs, and abstract symbols — the foundational skill that under

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SAM Symbols and Meaning Kit Plastic Story Pages

$54.15

SAM - SYMBOLS AND MEANING Plastic Story Pages (Set of 25) These are replacement plastic story pages for the SAM (Symbols and Meaning) literacy curriculum, a tactile and symbol-based reading program developed by APH for students who are bl

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Accessories with Caulk replacement item for Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication with assorted items including a variety of mounting cards in seven different colors and shapes, print guidebook, caulk tube, orange zipper, black and white spoons, fishing lure, steel washer, yellow puff ink, jingle bells, blue crescent shape, blue rubber ball, craft foam sheets (red, yellow, and blue), white needlepoint canvas, black plastic wire screen, adhesive-backed paper, vinyl sheets, and white hook coins/tabs.

$39.00

Tactile Connections, Accessories with Caulk This is a replacement accessories kit — including caulk — for the APH Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication system, a tactile AAC tool used with learners who are deafblind

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A package of gray scalloped-shaped cards (10 undrilled and 5 two-hole drilled.

$13.24

Tactile Connections, Gray Cards (pack of 15) These are replacement gray cards for the Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication system — a set of tactile symbol cards used to support communication and literacy developmen

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A colorful tactile puzzle diagram of an eye next to the My Sight Spanish tactile key that assigns each texture from the puzzle with a braille and large print label.

$357.00

My Sight Puzzle, Spanish This tactile and visual puzzle helps students who are blind or have low vision build vocabulary around their own visual experience — learning to describe and communicate what they

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Digital-Recording-Devices-in-OTWL-Sound-Page - An overhead view of a OTWL yellow sound page with three white digital recording devices inserted.

$56.50

Tactile Book Builder Kit, Sound Page with 3 Recorders This is a replacement sound page component for APH's Tactile Book Builder Kit — specifically the version that includes three digital recorders embedded in the page, allowing book c

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$22.05

SAM - Symbols and Meaning Basket This is a replacement basket component for the SAM (Symbols and Meaning) Kit, a tactile literacy curriculum tool designed by APH for students who are blind or have low vision and a

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$27.95

Tactile Strategies for Children Who Have Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities: Promoting Communication and Learning Skills(EPUB) A professional reference book in EPUB format covering tactile communication strategies for children who are both visually impaired and have additional disabilities. The content foc

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