GiftedTech

Every student has something to say.

GiftedTech builds communication and learning apps for students with disabilities. They are grounded in research, run in any web browser, work without internet, and keep student information on the device.

Request a pilot Open Communicate
Tap the words to build a sentence
Eight of the 36 core words on the Communicate home board. Each word keeps the same place, so students can build the habit of reaching for it.

Apps

Communicate

Available now for pilot schools

A complete AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) app for students who use pictures, words and a keyboard to talk. It speaks aloud and works on iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets and computers.

  • 36 core words that never move, plus 12 topic pages and about 450 words
  • A full keyboard, word endings (go, going, went) and saved sentences
  • "My body" is always one tap away: hurt, sick, bathroom, and safety words
  • Modeling mode, so adults can show language without changing the student's message
  • Each student's own words, photos and voice, set up by their team
Open Communicate
Communicate's Topics page: twelve topic folders such as People, Feelings, My body and School, beside a fixed side menu.

In development

  • Visual Schedules First-then boards, now-next strips and daily schedules with built-in timers.
  • Board Printer Print any Communicate page as a matching paper board for low-tech backup.
  • Newcomer Picture Dictionary School words with symbols and speech in many languages, for students learning English.

Tell us what your students need next. School teams shape what we build.

Our approach

Presume competence
Every student gets a full vocabulary and the alphabet from day one, not a few requests chosen for them.
Built on research
Vocabulary, layout and features follow published AAC research, and each choice is documented with its sources.
Words stay where they are
Words never shuffle or move, so students build motor habits the way fluent typists do. Teams add words in empty spaces.
Works anywhere, even offline
The apps run in Safari, Chrome and Edge on the devices schools already own. After the first visit, they work with no internet at all.
Private by design
Student names, words and photos stay on the device. Our apps have no ads, no tracking and no student accounts in the cloud.
Nothing about students without students
Students, families, teachers and speech-language pathologists try new features in pilot classrooms, and what they tell us decides what changes.

For schools and districts

Apps are licensed per school or per district for the school year. We work with quotes, purchase orders and invoices, and we start every partnership with a pilot.

Families can use Communicate at home with the same words and layout their child uses at school.

What a pilot includes

  • Setup help and training for teachers, assistants and speech-language pathologists
  • A privacy and security overview for your privacy review
  • An accessibility statement
  • Direct support from the team that builds the apps, based in Alberta

Start a pilot

Tell us about your school or district and the students you support. We'll reply within two business days.

Email hello@giftedtech.org