New AAC courses on Smartbox Academy!
New courses have just launched on Smartbox Academy! Whether you’re just getting started with AAC or looking to deepen your knowledge, these courses are designed to give you practical strategies, confidence, and flexible learning options.
This latest update includes three in-depth courses exploring literacy, communication strategies, and supports for using AAC in the home, alongside three bite-sized introductions to some of our most popular grid sets: Super Core, Fast Talker, and Text Talker.
New in-depth courses
Our in-depth courses give you the opportunity to explore key AAC topics in detail, through a mix of video tutorials, text lessons, and practical activities. Our new in-depth courses:
Supporting Literacy with Grid – Part 2
Following on from Supporting Literacy with Grid, this is the next step in supporting literacy for AAC users with Grid. This course explores advanced strategies that move beyond the foundations of phonics and early print awareness, focusing on decoding, comprehension, sentence construction, and independent writing.
The Simple AAC Framework: Strategies for Supporting Communication
Discover nine simple strategies for supporting early AAC learners. This course introduces the Simple AAC framework through practical tips and real-life examples, helping you create meaningful opportunities for communication in everyday routines.
Supporting AAC at Home
Learn how to create meaningful communication opportunities in everyday spaces. This course introduces practical strategies, real-life examples, and editing tips to help families and carers turn the home into a communication-rich environment. It also explores how to take AAC into the wider world, building confidence and independence in real-life situations.
New bite-sized courses
We’ve updated our bite-sized course collection to include introductions to some of our most popular grid sets: Text Talker, Fast Talker and Super Core. These short, focused videos give you a quick way to explore key features and get started with confidence:
Introduction to Super Core
Explore Super Core, a symbol-based vocabulary designed to support language, literacy, and learning for AAC users of all ages. This introductory course walks you through its key features, from consistent core vocabulary to age-appropriate layouts, and shows how it can support real-life communication.
Introduction to Fast Talker
Learn how Fast Talker helps AAC users communicate quickly and independently. This course introduces its key features, from efficient text communication and message banking to web apps and environment control, and demonstrates how it supports independence in daily life.
Introduction to Text Talker
Get started with Text Talker, a grid set built for literate AAC users. This course highlights its intuitive features such as SwiftKey prediction, Symoji, stored phrases, and chat history, showing how they work together to make text communication faster and more natural.
