Modelling Up
Modelling up will help your learner to understand the meaning of buttons, and encourage multi-button presses. Here’s how you do it.
Encouraging Your First Independent Presses
How to encourage your learner to press their sound buttons. Whether you’ve had talking buttons for a while but haven’t had that first independent press yet or want to set yourself up for success, here’s what you need to know.
Choosing Your First Button Words
How to choose the first words you’ll record on your sound buttons, and what makes a great starter word.
Prompting vs. Directing
Everything you need to know about how to interact appropriately with your learner when you’re using the buttons - and how you might accidentally make getting independent presses harder.
Ways of Pressing Buttons
This article discusses different ways learners can interact with buttons. We also cover how to respond to the more unusual ones!
Accidental & Experimental Presses
Responding correctly to accidental and experimental presses is crucial to help your learner progress. Here’s how you respond to them.
What is learner led button communication?
Learner led communication is the mindset we want you to be in when you’re teaching and using communication buttons. How and when your learner chooses to use their buttons to talk to you should be entirely their choice.