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October 2023 Weekly Flash (1/4)
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New – In App Store boards!
First of its kind technology for our market!! 
Our new In App Store has quick and complete downloadable groups, ready for use in seconds!
Feel free to ask questions here anytime!!
Audio Recordings
Our new audio recordings feature has been a ton of fun to use in therapy these past few weeks. It’s quite a game changer.
Hold down the settings gear icon for 5 seconds to open the Settings Menu–>Edit (on)–>and then long press
How To’s, Why’s, and What to Do’s
Our Facebook User’s Group is an open forum. Please use this space to discuss, ask questions, comment, or ask for support or clarification anytime you want! We will use this space on our FaceBook User’s Group to provide discussions of How To’s and Why or What To Do’s
New Audio Feature
We created this app, for the front line. By the front line. After 20 years of failed trials with complicated and expensive apps and devices, we created apps that help people in our neighborhoods connect.
The new audio feature on our apps
Video Modeling
Have you ever watched a child, eye to eye (teletherapy is helpful for this), watch a video of themselves as a younger child and literally tears swell up in their eyes and they do all they can to hold back the tears from falling?
I have.
Say more with less
Ever wonder why or how children develop language? It starts with exposure, a lot of exposure. Exposure based on interests. Consistent exposure based on shared experiences, that both parties are attending to fully. Attention, exposure, and growing awareness. I enjoyed the descriptive breakdown from a helpful article by The Hanen Centre about ways to build
Free Printable Communication Boards
On our website > Menu > FAQs and More! > Free Printable Communication Boards BRIDGE Communication app makes learning and growing through connection FUN – FAST – and, best of all, it WORKS!! Stay tuned to login to monthly
3×3 grid Size
Also referred to as field size. It’s an important feature in AAC devices and apps, and one that holds a lot of interest and discussion. We chose our fixed 3×3 grid intentionally. We beta tested over 100 users with their
Nonverbal to Verbal
There are many steps to go through to help individuals move from being nonverbal to verbal. I’ve done this many times as a therapist, fortunately, but exponentially once we got our app “right” and were able to present information
Autosave feature
We found a bug on our AMAZING autosave feature on our app. Our team is working to resolve this issue and will release an update as soon as it’s fixed. We use this app daily and not having access to this
Collaboration, Support, and Understanding
There are so many cool ways to use BRIDGE Communication and BRIDGE Communication Builder apps, it’s hard to know where to begin when blogging about them. I love where these apps can take us, but it’s important to realize and know where to
Activity Choice Board
Thanks for waiting! I was a little busier last week than I realized I would be, but back on for you, and with you, now.
We had a good question come through our email today regarding the ability to move groups
Stay Tuned
Sorry for the delay in sending out new info to this group. We had a very terrible, unexpected, young COVID related death in our family. I took a little time off, but I’m excited to get back to showing you ideas, tips, and answering
AAC app for all ages
As this app has so many features, along with BRIDGE Communication Builder app, and our potential audience is wide spread, the main reason we created this app was as an AAC support. The youngest user we have had on this app for AAC
Articulation Feature
Did you know you can turn on the ARTICULATION feature in our BRIDGE Communication app, in our Settings Menu, and have access to 2,800 prompts developed by our team of 14 SLPs?? Very cool feature. You can also turn on EDIT
Visual Planning, Habit Trackers, and Reminders for YOU!
This app isn’t just for them. It’s for YOU, too! Download BRIDGE Communication Builder app and create create create: reminders in visual form, healthy habits visual journals, visual health trackers, quick visual planning, visual calendar events. Any age, anytime, anywhere!
Edit Mode
Editing in BRIDGE Communication app and BRIDGE Communication Builder app is very simple. We made the technology intuitive, seamless, and responsive! I recorded a slower video for you all for the Edit Mode. Ask questions ~ happy to help!
Quick and Easy AAC App Board Construction
Hi all! I created this file this morning prior to a meeting – took me 20 minutes total on BRIDGE Communication Builder app. It’s not the typical way I do AAC with our apps, but this is a special case and this
Scheduling Boards and Reminders
I’m personally not a scheduling person. I really resist a typical TO-DO list or maybe “being told” what to do on some level lol, but using visual imagery to enhance understanding and to conceptualize events and tasks helps calm
Create Communication Boards on the spot
Using communication supports to aid lessons helps understanding. I use and create these supports in sessions with the children I treat in therapy. We program together, discuss picture options, select vocabulary together, compare, contrast, I let them
Fun Ways to Incorporate Language
Good morning BC users Woke up this morning thinking of the variety of people joining this new group, and their needs. We have members not yet using the app, to haven’t used it in awhile and want to
Use BRIDGE Communication Builder app to help a loved one with Dementia
Welcome! We really have so much to say here and I‘m not sure where to start, so we are going to focus on showing you ideas and boards and how we build within the app. Creative ways to
What is AAC?
Simply put, augmentative and alternative communication means all of the ways that someone communicates besides talking (https://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/aac/). Communication is the sending,
Communication Supports
The Communication Post A place to relax and recover Blog #1: Communication Supports 01/23/22 by Danielle Poletti, M.S., CCC-SLP, Creator/Founder This blog is a place for us to build community. Whether you are a parent, teacher, SLP, caring for an elderly loved one,