Lesson · Pictello
Pictello
A story can preview a routine. It cannot replace TouchChat when the routine is happening. Do not migrate his voice onto it. Do not install it on the QuickTalker Freestyle.
- Pictello is visual stories: photo plus speech, page by page. It is not the speech-generating device and not his voice.
- Allowed: “how lunch works,” PE preview, fire-drill social story, book retell. Preview the routine. Then do the real routine on HIS TouchChat.
- Not allowed: migrating his vocabulary onto Pictello, using it as the classroom output, or parking the QuickTalker because “the story iPad is easier.”
- If a story introduces a word he will need in real time, write that word on the request list. Do not program Pictello instead of modeling on WordPower.
How to use a story on this campus
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Allowed stories: how lunch works, PE preview, fire-drill social story, book retell, ‘how we walk to music.’ Preview the routine. Then do the real routine on HIS TouchChat.
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Create/edit on a different iPad. Wizard mode is step-by-step. Expert mode is faster (fonts, transitions). Do not install Pictello on the QuickTalker Freestyle.
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Tap Edit (top right) → story → Edit in Story Actions → Wizard or Expert. Photos, video, and recorded speech are fine. First-person, more descriptive sentences than coaching sentences.
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After the story: device in reach, SAY–HIT–WAIT–HONOR on WordPower. The story does not become the output.
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If a story introduces a word he will need in real time, write it on the request list. Do not program Pictello instead of modeling on WordPower.
Not allowed
- Migrating his vocabulary onto Pictello
- Using it as the classroom output or the ‘easier iPad’
- Parking the QuickTalker because ‘the story iPad is lighter’
- Combining it with Proloquo2Go as his school voice — that is a competing SGD, not this IEP
Pictello · Quickstart manual (PDF) · Tutorials · FAQs. AssistiveWare Learn AAC partner practices are on Foundations. Their speech apps are not his voice.
Trevor AAC Training for Trevor Rivard · Lessons include official AbleTeams, PRC-Saltillo, and Language Lab how-tos · Training only — no student records