Six clear steps. One destination: your child with a voice.
Free 30-minute video call with our clinical team. No obligation, no jargon, no pressure — just an honest conversation about your child and what they need.
Our SLT team conducts a comprehensive AAC assessment — evaluating communication modalities, motor skills, cognitive level, and language profile. This informs every decision about vocabulary and access method.
We complete the entire AT Grant application on your behalf — Form 3 (under 18) or Form 3A (over 18), clinical evidence pack, SENO liaison, and school coordination. We chase it. We follow up. We get it approved.
Our SLTs design a bespoke vocabulary system for your child — core words, fringe vocabulary, and symbol sets aligned with their language stage. This is not a template; it is tailor-made communication.
We configure TapTalk AAC on the approved device, conduct training with parents, teachers, and SNAs, and provide quick-reference guides. Everything goes live together.
Our clinical team monitors speech telemetry data, schedules regular review sessions, and evolves the vocabulary as your child grows. We do not disappear after delivery.
TapTalk AAC operates in full alignment with Irish Special Educational Needs (SEN) legislation and statutory Assistive Technology grant frameworks.
When a non-verbal child uses a speech-generating device (SGD), the brain relies on cerebellar motor mapping rather than visual searching. Research in motor automaticity (Frenz et al., 2022) demonstrates that when graphic symbols maintain fixed spatial locations on a screen layout, the neurological process transitions from controlled visual search to automatic motor execution—the exact neural pathway utilized by fluent typists and concert pianists.
Under Irish law, assistive communication technology is not an optional luxury—it is a statutory educational entitlement designed to guarantee equal access to the national curriculum for students with special educational needs (SEN).
"A persistent myth claims that giving a non-verbal child a speech device will make them 'vocal lazy'. Consider vision: when a child has severe myopia, we prescribe eyeglasses. Eyeglasses do not make the eyes lazy; they correct visual refraction so the visual cortex can process shape and color. AAC works identically: it resolves the physical obstacle of motor speech production so the language center in the brain can express complex thought."
"Human speech is not a single solo instrument; it is a full symphony orchestra. Vocalization, facial expression, Lámh key-word signing, body gesture, and digital AAC devices are different instruments in the same ensemble. Restricting a non-verbal child to vocal production alone is like forcing an orchestra to play a symphony with only a triangle."