Using TD Snap to Build Multimodal, Inclusive Learning Environments

Hey Tek-ninjas! Today, I'm excited to share a guest blog post from my colleague Michelle Lassiter. Michelle is a speech therapist, and the Tobii Dynavox Solutions Consultant for South Carolina. She's super smart, and I loved this idea she had and shares with the SLPs she works with! Naturally, I asked her if she'd write up a post for me and you, and here it is!

Using TD Snap to Build Multimodal, Inclusive Learning Environments
As an SLP and AAC consultant, one of my favorite ways to enhance both therapy and classroom instruction is by integrating the Tobii Dynavox TD Snap Core Pageset with customized pages for articulation, phonology, and literacy support. Over time, I’ve built-out pages within TD Snap that function as my digital therapy toolkit. This allows me to be always organized, always accessible, and always ready to meet the needs of every student who walks through the door.

Using TD Snap during lessons and therapy helps not only me, as the SLP, but also my teachers and AAC teams feel confident navigating the software. And before you tell me it’s “too much work to learn another app,” hear me out, because this setup is designed to make your life easier, not harder. And it is a free tool for all SLP’s and AAC professionals!

A Reality Every School‑Based SLP Knows Too Well

Before moving into AAC full‑time, I spent years as a school‑based SLP with zero therapy budget. Like so many of us, I purchased countless materials from Teachers Pay Teachers, stayed up late laminating and cutting, and tried to build a library of visuals and activities I could grab quickly.

But the reality was:

• My preschool groups would pivot activities with no warning
• A new group would walk in needing completely different materials
• The laminated resources I spent hours prepping were never in front of me at the right moment

TD Snap completely changed that. Instead of scrambling for physical materials, I could preload everything directly into my free TD Snap for Professionals app. Therapy became smoother, more flexible, and far more responsive to the moment‑to‑moment needs of young learners and my busy SLP schedule.

Therapy Tools Right Where You Need Them

Inside the Topics section in TD Snap, I create one main button, which I typically labeled “Therapy Tools.”

 
That button opens to a dedicated page containing:

• Articulation & phonology pages for specific targets
• Literacy pages with book‑specific vocabulary
• Core‑based book supports that preload key words from stories or activities
• Quick‑access visuals, sound‑production videos, routines, and supports

The result is a neatly organized, instantly accessible digital therapy bag. So, no more digging through folders, losing materials, or juggling multiple apps!

Supporting Teachers and ELL Students
When teachers connect TD Snap to their smart boards, they gain immediate access to the same vocabulary students are using on their devices. This allows them to:

• Model AAC naturally during instruction
• Support ELL students with visual and linguistic scaffolds
• Aid students with learning and thinking differences
• Reinforce academic vocabulary in real time

Because therapy and instructional vocabulary live in the same place, AAC becomes a natural, consistent part of classroom learning and provides multi-modal learning supports for ALL learners while modeling AAC for those who need it!

Building Confidence for AAC Teams

Customizing Pagesets this way helps SLPs, teachers, and paraprofessionals learn the software without feeling overwhelmed. Embedding therapy and literacy materials directly within the TD Snap for Professional’s app system gives teams experience with the software providing:

• A predictable structure
• Familiar navigation
• Hands‑on confidence editing buttons, linking pages, and modeling AAC.

The result is a classroom where communication is supported across the entire day; vocabulary is accessible, and AAC becomes a shared language for everyone, and not just the student using it. All that from a tool I can access for free as an AAC Professional! Definitely a win-win in my world.

If you are a Speech Therapist, and you'd like to get your professional license of TD Snap, just reach out to your local Solutions Consultant, and they can help you out!