Announcing New TapToTalk Pricing (effective June 20, 2011)

We are pleased to announce that you can now buy TapToTalk Designer for the one-time price of just $179.95 per child. This is not a subscription. There is nothing to renew, ever.

We still offer a one-year subscription for only $99.95 per child. But now, if you renew your subscription just once for $99.95, you never have to renew it again.

We've just made portable, customizable, socially acceptable AAC even more affordable. The choice of payment options is yours.

What if I'm already a subscriber?
If you are already a year-to-year subscriber, renew your subscription just once and it automatically becomes a "one-time payment" account. Then you'll never have to renew again.

The cost of renewing is $99.95 per TapToTalk. But if you renew by September 1, our special summer price is only $80 per TapToTalk.

But I already renewed!
Thanks! You have nothing more to pay! Over the next few weeks, we will be converting all renewed accounts to one-time payment accounts. No more renewal fees for you!

But I let my subscription expire!
That's okay. We are giving all expired subscribers the opportunity to renew. When you do, your account will automatically become a "one-time payment" account and you'll never have to renew again. Do that at our Customer Store.

The cost of renewing is still $99.95 per TapToTalk. But if you renew by September 1, our special summer price is only $80 per TapToTalk.

Now how do I add TapToTalks to my Designer account?
You can add TapToTalks to your one-time payment account at any time for $179.95. If you have a one-year subscription, you can upgrade it to a one-time payment account and add TapToTalks. For complete information, go to our Customer Store.

If you have any questions about our new pricing options and how they affect you, please contact us at info@taptotalk.com.

If you have a TapToTalk idea or story you'd like us to share with other TapToTalk users, please email us at blog@taptotalk.com.

The TapToTalk Team
www.taptotalk.com
blog@taptotalk.com

Summer and Your TapToTalk

Summer is here!

(Well, it is in the northern hemisphere, at any rate. For all of you down-under, we apologize for being a half-year off.)

Here are some things to think about for your child's TapToTalk as summer begins:

Going on vacation? How are you traveling? You may want to add pictures related to an airplane, train, boat or car trip. Or of the people or places you plan to visit. You could even set up an album just for trips.

Closer to home, it may be time to add pictures for the beach or the local pool or park. Or maybe summer camp. You could, for example, have pictures of the staff at your child's camp.

Do you have some communication goals for your child this summer? Perhaps you have discussed that with the teacher or SLP. How can you use TapToTalk to extend your child's communication capability this summer?

One TapToTalk Mom told us she started an album for the summer garden, with flowers, plants, vegetables, hose, rake, watering can, snails, and so forth.

These are just some thought-starters. Have a great summer!

(this is re-posted from this time last year; summer is summer, after all)

If you have a TapToTalk idea or story you'd like us to share with other TapToTalk users, please email us at blog@taptotalk.com.

The TapToTalk Team
www.taptotalk.com
blog@taptotalk.com

SLPs-Using TapToTalk in Your Practice

TapToTalk Designer gives speech therapists and other special needs professionals a powerful tool to build their practices and provide better services to clients. They key feature that enables this is called "TapToTalk Sharing."

With TapToTalk Sharing, you can use your Designer account to create and maintain AAC content for your client's TapToTalk without you paying for the client's TapToTalk. The client's TapToTalk belongs to the client and resides in the client's own Designer account. The client gives you access to that TapToTalk by sharing it with your Designer account.

Your client simple "invites" you to share their TapToTalk. When you accept  the invitation, you will see your client's TapToTalk in your TapToTalk Designer account. You can add pictures and sounds to their albums from your account. You can add albums to their TapToTalk. You can publish albums for their TapToTalk. It is still their TapToTalk, the one in their TapToTalk Designer account. They just let you share it for design work!

You do not use one of your TapToTalks to access the one(s) shared with you. For example, if you have a Pro account with two TapToTalks, any TapToTalks that your clients share with you are in addition to the two that you own. They don't pay more for this feature, and you don't pay more either.

The Process

• As a professionals, you would  typically get a TapToTalk Pro account with a few TapToTalks.
• You develop a variety of templates and store them in the TapToTalk Pro album library (the album library is a feature of Pro and Agency accounts).
• You use the TapToTalks you own for screening and evaluation work with individual clients.
• When you and a client's family decide TapToTalk is right for a client's needs, the family of the client gets their own TapToTalk Home account.
• The client's family then shares their TapToTalk with your Designer account.

The Power

• You can do AAC design work for your client from any computer connected to the Internet, anywhere in the world.
• You can share design activities with the family, who still have complete Designer access to the TapToTalk they shared with you.
• The family can add their own photos and voices to your template after you add the template to the shared TapToTalk.
• You do not use up one of your Designer account TapToTalks.
• You do not need the device(s) that run the TapToTalk to work on design changes.
• You can have as many shared TapToTalks appear in your Designer account as you want.
• You can service as many client TapToTalks as you want with no additional cost to you.

TapToTalk Sharing gives you the ability to serve your clients better and grow your practice.

More information about TapToTalk sharing

If you have a TapToTalk idea or story you'd like us to share with other TapToTalk users, please email us at blog@taptotalk.com.

The TapToTalk Team
www.taptotalk.com
blog@taptotalk.com

Announcing TapToTalk Sharing

Need help designing your TapToTalk?

Need to help someone else with their TapToTalk design?

Perhaps you just want to show your album designs to a friend?

Then our new TapToTalk Sharing feature is for you!

With TapToTalk Sharing, you can "invite" another TapToTalk Designer user anywhere in the world to view and/or make changes to your TapToTalk. When the invitation is accepted, they will see your TapToTalk in their TapToTalk Designer account. They can, if you so choose, add pictures and sounds to your albums from their account. They can publish albums for you for your TapToTalk. It is still your TapToTalk, the one in your TapToTalk Designer account. You've just let them share it for design work!

There is no extra cost for this feature. More, the person with whom you shared your TapToTalk does not use one of their own TapToTalks to access yours. For example, if you share with a Pro user who has two TapToTalks, the TapToTalk that you share is in addition to the two that they own. They don't pay more and you don't pay more.

The person with whom you share can add pictures and sounds from their libraries to your TapToTalk. If the person you share with has a Pro or Agency account, they can even add albums from their album library.

You can share your TapToTalk with as many other TapToTalk Designer accounts (users) as you want. On the other hand, you can have as many shared TapToTalks as you want from others. And you are in control of who you share with, who shares with you, and whether they can make changes or not. You can stop sharing your TapToTalk at any time.

If you are a professional who supports other TapToTalk users, they can have their own TapToTalk Designer Home account. They can share it with you, and you can use your account to do the design work.

This great new feature is now available to all TapToTalk Designer users. There is lots more information in Designer Help. Here is a direct link to the help document.

If you have a TapToTalk idea or story you'd like us to share with other TapToTalk users, please email us at blog@taptotalk.com.

The TapToTalk Team
http://www.taptotalk.com/
blog@taptotalk.com