Pyramid offers an array of apps designed with parents, professionals and learners in mind. Our apps can help you set up successful classrooms, teach picture discrimination, provide reinforcement, encourage successful waiting and make it easy for your learners to communicate!
PECSTalk™ (Now available for Android Smart Tablets & Apple iPad)
PECSTalk™ is an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) app used by individuals with complex communication needs, including those on the autism spectrum. Designed by the developers of the evidence-based Picture Exchange Communication System® (PECS®), this high-tech option is customizable and easy to use! With access to the complete Pics for PECS picture set, multiple voice output options, and multiple languages, the PECSTalk™ app can be individualized for your learner’s needs.
With PECSTalk™, users can construct a multi-picture Sentence Strip™ via a dedicated Sentence Starter™ page and create up to 30 digital PECS book pages for the in-app voice to speak. The digital display is similar in layout to a traditional PECS Communication Book while accommodating the more robust vocabulary of a Speech Generating Device (SGD).
The PECSTalk™ app can be used to make requests, respond to questions, comment and ask questions. By converting pictures and text into spoken language, the PECSTalk™ app empowers non-speaking learners to fully participate in their school, home, vocational, and community settings.
Languages Available: English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
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PECSTalk Lite™ (Now available for Android Smart Tablets & Apple iPad)
Interested in PECSTalk, but want to determine if it will be a good fit for your learner? Download PECSTalk Lite for free to try before you buy. PECS Talk Lite is an abbreviated version of PECSTalk and offers limited features.
Languages Available: English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
iHear PECS®: Animals™
(Available exclusively for iPad® and iPad™ mini) Kids love animals and the variety of sounds they make. This PECS Activity App is for students who are learning to comment in Phase VI of PECS. iHear PECS: Animals includes two different sound tracks for 12 familiar animals, a PECS Activity Board, 3 Pics for PECS Sentence Starter images and 12 Pics for PECS animal images. Customise the Activity Board with 1 to 3 Sentence Starters and 1 to 12 animal images to teach responsive and spontaneous commenting and requesting. Tap the Play icon to randomly play a selected animal sound. Tap the Replay button to play the same animal sound again. The student drags and drops Pics for PECS icons to the Sentence Strip to comment on or request the animal sound and then taps each picture to “speak” the sentence. If the student requests an animal sound, the animal sound plays as a reward.
Languages Available: English
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Wait4it™
Encourage successful waiting with Wait4it™! From time to time, we all have to wait for something we want. Many learners who encounter situations during which they must wait have difficulty with this concept. Wait4it™ is a great tool for those that have mastered Phases I and II of PECS. The app is designed for use in any setting to help teach the concept of “wait” and encourage learners to wait successfully!
Languages Available: English
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Working4™
Everybody likes a visual reinforcement system. Using this app, you can let someone know what he’s working for, how much work he needs to do, and how close he is to earning a reward for that work. You can use this for lessons in school, chores at home, getting your children to eat their vegetables, and much more! Start the app by selecting the number of tokens (1-5) your student must earn. Then set up your student’s reinforcer choice board by selecting 1-6 items from our pre-loaded symbol library or your own photo library. To delete a picture from the teacher choice screen just press down on an image for 5 seconds. Show the choice board to your student to select what to work for and then begin your lesson. Each time a student earns a token, slide a token to the empty dot. Once the student has earned all of his tokens, push the “cash in” button to show your student what he’s earned! The token board resets to start the next deal or you can create a new choice board for your student to select a new reinforcer.
Languages Available: English, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese*
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*Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese are only available on Apple devices.
R+Remind™
A tool to help educators remember to reinforce good behaviour! With R+Remind, you choose an interval and the app does the work! A tone unique to each interval sounds at a variable rate so that you can pause in what you’re doing and reinforce a new behaviour, the lack of a targeted behaviour, or even an existing behaviour. Perfect in busy classrooms to remind all staff to catch someone being good!
Languages Available: English
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