Elf AAC Template for TouchChat

Buddy, Santa, Jovie and the rest of Elf, from the North Pole to New York, plus the Christmas fun and feelings the movie is full of, on two TouchChat boards.

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At a glance

  • App: TouchChat
  • Grid: WordPower 60
  • Pages: 2 linked pages
  • Cost: Free — no account required

What’s on the boards

The Elf home board on a TouchChat WordPower 60 grid: Buddy, Papa Elf, Santa, Jovie, Walter, Emily, Michael, Miles Finch, Leon the Snowman, Narwhal, Ming Ming, Gimbels, Santa's Workshop, North Pole, New York, Empire State Building, Central Park, Christmas, Santa's Sleigh, Candy, with buttons to every board.
The Elf home board.
The Elf Christmas Fun board on a TouchChat WordPower 60 grid: friend, family, dad, toys, present, snow, snowman, snowball, cookie, spaghetti, syrup, lights, sing, hug, build, throw, laugh, give, skate, cheer, silly, believe, happy, sad, excited, love, mad, surprised, eat, play, with buttons to every board.
Christmas Fun.

What the pages are

Elf. Buddy, Papa Elf, Santa, Jovie, Walter, Emily, Michael, Miles Finch, Leon the Snowman, Narwhal, Ming Ming, Gimbels, Santa’s Workshop, North Pole, New York, Empire State Building, Central Park, Christmas, Santa’s Sleigh, candy.

Christmas Fun. sing, hug, build, eat, throw, laugh, play, give, skate, cheer, toys, present, snow, snowman, snowball, cookie, spaghetti, syrup, lights, believe, happy, sad, excited, love, mad, surprised, silly, friend, family, dad.

What’s included

  • The Elf characters with pictures from the film
  • The places Buddy goes, from the North Pole to New York
  • Christmas words and feelings as simple pictures
  • 2 boards on the standard WordPower 60 grid

Why themed boards work

The first board is the movie: Buddy, Papa Elf, Santa, Jovie, Walter, Emily, Michael and the rest of the cast with pictures from the film, and the places a child retells, from Santa’s Workshop and the North Pole to Gimbels, the Empire State Building and Central Park. The second board is Christmas fun: singing, hugging, snowballs, spaghetti with syrup, presents and lights, with believe beside happy, excited, silly and surprised, drawn as simple pictures a child can read.

Motivation drives AAC use. A child handed a board full of clinical vocabulary has little reason to reach for it; a child who can talk about what they already care about has every reason. Themed boards are not a replacement for a robust core-word system — they sit alongside it. More on core words and themed boards.

How to install

  1. Download the file above and unzip it.
  2. Open our installation guide — note that TouchChat’s built-in vocabularies are locked, so you make an editable copy first.
  3. Import the pages into your TouchChat vocabulary.
  4. Place a page-link button somewhere reachable during a conversation.
  5. Customize — add the words your communicator actually uses.

Before you import

  • TouchChat exports do not carry over “Alternate Pronunciation” settings. If a word is spoken oddly, adjust the spelling on the device after importing.
  • Elf belongs to New Line Cinema, and the character pictures are from the film. This is a free communication aid, not merchandise.
  • If a symbol reads wrong to your child, or a word they need is missing, ask and it will be fixed.
  • Need something changed, or a different grid size? Ask us.

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