DinoTalk — My First Choices
Sale price
$50.00
Regular price
$70.00
NO SCREENS
NO APP
WORKS ALONGSIDE AAC
AGES 12 MONTHS AND UP
Point. Press. Understood.
Lay out the mat and put two cards in the pockets. Your child sets Dino on the one they want, and presses his tummy. Dino says the word out loud, and you both hear the same thing.
No screens. No app. Nothing to set up.
Who it's for
Children who aren't speaking. Speech delay, apraxia, autism. Families use DinoTalk alongside the communication tools they already have. It's a first-choices toy, not a replacement for AAC or therapy. Something a child can reach for on the floor, in the car, at the table.
Children who aren't speaking yet. Toddlers in the stretch between pointing and talking, when they know exactly what they want and have no way to say it.
I made this for my nephew
He's non-speaking. He knows exactly what he wants. He just hasn't had a way to tell us. We spent a long time guessing, getting it wrong, and watching him slowly stop bothering to ask.
So I made him a dinosaur and a handful of cards, and a way to point at the thing he actually meant. The first time he chose something and we got it right, he grinned like he'd won.
That's the whole product. I hoped it might help him find some words along the way. Mostly I just wanted him to be understood.