If you follow me on pinterest, you might notice I use it A LOT. A few weeks ago PediaStaff started creating boards with pictures to be used in therapy. They made boards with action pictures, pronouns, problem solving, inferencing and concepts. As soon as Heidi emailed me and told me about them, I knew I could adapt them for speech therapy on the ipad. I figured it would be way more entertaining than printing them all out! About the same time, I won an app called TapikeoHD. After playing with it for a while I realized it was perfect for the PediaStaff pinterest boards. Let me show you what I came up with! 
The app I used is called Tapikeo and available at this time for $2.99 in the app store. Tapikeo allows you create your own audio-enabled picture books, storyboards, audio flashcards, and more using a versatile grid style layout. Check it out for yourself in the itunes store here. 
First I opened Pinterest on my ipad and decided I would make an activity working on labeling verbs. I opened their board for actions words. 
Then I saved the pictures to my ipad by holding down on them to save. 
Next you will head on over to the app and start a new grid. When you click on the empty grid square you will get a screen like this. If you want text to accompany your photo/audio (and I did because I want to support literacy skills!) you can type that in at the top. I type ” The boy is ___.” Then select ‘browse’ to add the photos you just saved to the ipad. Then select record. For my grid I saved my voice reading “The boy is.” When I use it with younger students, all they need to do is name the verb. For older students working on full sentence generation – I can turn the sound off and they are responsible for developing the whole sentence. 
Once I finished adding all my cards (it took me about 5 or 10 minutes) the board looks like this. 
When the student clicks on one of the pictures, it expands to fill the screen and the audio/visual joins the picture. This is when my students identified the verb or created a new sentence! There is also an ‘e-book’ setting where the app transfers your pictures into more of a slideshow like setting. I kept mine on the grid formation so I could work on receptive language skills at the same time. I had the students pick their picture a few different ways: by following directions with spatial concepts, by answering WH questions, or by listening to clues and making basic inferences. These boards are easy to make in the app and PediaStaff has done most of the work finding all these great images. What other topic boards would you like to see PediaStaff create?
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Thank you so much for sharing this! I love those same photographs on Pinterest but had no idea how to make them useable! You rock!
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Aw! Thanks!
unbelievable…my mind is whirling with ideas and iep goals!!!!
Fantastic Jenna! LOVE IT!
this is great! i wish i had an ipad to use it with! what i have been doing with the pictures on the pediastaff boards is saving them to my computer and making powerpoints from the pictures
Great idea Jenna. Love it.
Deb (SpeechGadget)
I really thought those Pediastaff pages were great and it is awesome to find out how to turn them into an iPad activity. Thanks!
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You are amazing! Brilliant…..I am so excited I can’t wait to do this!
Hi I’m Jeoud the dev of Tapikeo: your idea is brillant Jenna, I’m so glad you won the contest and come up with such a great idea !
I’ll be releasing version 3.0 soon: let me know if you want me to integrate some of the grids you did in the “free” section so that everyone can take advantage of it with a direct download (new feature in v3.0).
Thanks again, you really rock !
Any chance you’ll release an app for windows platform devices?
Thank you for sharing, Jenna! This is THE app I’ve been searching for but couldn’t find. The options are endless.
Woo hoo! I have Tapikeo and this is such a great idea, thank you!
That is so cool! I’ve been using the pinterest pictures for inferencing activities and the social problem solving. Used those ones recently on an Autism eval. 😉
love your site! Wanted to share an idea I came up with to solve the limited access to color printing. I wanted to use your shamrock and popcorn activities so I put added them to Dropbox on my computer and them showed them on my iPad’s Dropbox. The kids enjoyed shifting and manipulating the graphics.
That sounds awesome! What drop box app did you use?
I just used the free app for the iPad and the Dropbox.com install for the computer.
Do you think it is worth doing on my iTouch. I don’t have an iPad and I worry that the screen is too small for groups on my iTouch…. But I don’t want to spend the money for the app if it’s not going to work out. TIA!
I think it would be really small CC. I don’t think I would buy it on the itouch if I was you! Wouldn’t want you to waste $3!
Thank for a great tool! I found the app for 1.99 now on iTunes – unless it’s the wrong one?
Wow I love you