Using and Programming Auditory Prompts in Springboard Lite
Auditory Prompts
Summary:
Assign Prompts to keys. Turn Auditory Prompts On in the AUDITORY PROMPT MENU. Auditory Prompts can be used with headphones. Turn Use Earphone On in the AUDITORY PROMPT menu.
When Auditory Prompts are turned ON in the AUDITORY PROMPT MENU, the SpringBoard defaults to speaking the generic key name of any key you activate. If you press the first key at the top left of the display, you will hear, "Row 1 Column 1". If you press the next key to the right, it will say, "Row 1 Column 2." Spoken prompts help you to learn the location of keys on the keyboard.
If you are pressing keys on the keyboard, press and hold a key to hear the auditory prompt. If you are scanning, simply activate your switch. To retrieve a message, activate the key again after you have heard the prompt.
You can plug headphones into the HEADPHONE/SPEAKER jack on the SpringBoard. This allows you, but not others, to hear the prompts. If you are using headphones, turn the Use Earphone option ON in the AUDITORY PROMPT MENU. You can record your own prompt for a key in the ASSIGN CORE KEYS menu; the CREATE PAGE or MODIFY PAGE menus; and the CREATE ACTIVITY or MODIFY ACTIVITY menus. You can record a Key Prompt or select to hear a Content Prompt. If you are scanning, you might want Category Prompts. These are explained below.
A key prompt is usually whatever the icon name for that key is, such as "Sun" for the SUN icon or "Apple" for the APPLE icon. If you changed an icon name during the storing process, you might record a key prompt that matches the new name. For example, you may have changed the UMBRELLA icon's name to "Weather." The prompt would be "Weather" in that case.
If you are using Minspeak application where messages are stored under two or more icons you should record a key prompt for all the keys in the application. When you select the first key in the sequence, the SpringBoard will speak the key prompt you recorded. When you select the last icon in the sequence the SpringBoard will speak the message.
For example, if "Salad" is stored under the sequence APPLE FROG, when you activate APPLE you will hear "Apple" (if that is what you recorded as a key prompt). When you activate FROG you will hear, "Salad."
A content prompt tells the SpringBoard to speak whatever message you recorded and stored under a particular icon. If no message is stored, the row/column is spoken. To hear Content Prompts, set the Key or Content option to Content in the AUDITORY PROMPT menu. Category prompts are only used if you are row-column scanning.
Category prompts should help you locate where you are on the keyboard, e.g., "Row 1" or "Row 3". In some cases you may have a number of similar messages stored in one row or column. In this case, you might want the prompt to say something like, "School messages."
Use the ASSIGN CORE KEYS menu to create Category Prompts for Core vocabulary keys.
Use the ACTIVITY and PAGE menus to assign Category Prompts to Activity Rows or Pages.
We recommend that you select Content Prompt in the AUDITORY PROMPT menu for the applications, Activities and Pages that came with your SpringBoard.
When you press Listen to recording, if the prompt sounds too loud or too soft, press Record Message again. Activate one of the Microphone Volume buttons: UP arrow for louder or DOWN arrow for softer. Then record the message again and listen to it.
Erase Auditory Prompts
To Erase a Category Prompt:
1. In the Toolbox, activate ASSIGN CORE KEYS; MODIFY PAGE or MODIFY ACTIVITY menus.
2. Select the key on your overlay that contains the prompt you want to erase.
3. Select Store Category Prompt from the options that you see.
4. Activate CLEAR DISPLAY instead of spelling a prompt.
5. Activate OK.
To Erase a Key Prompt:
1. In the Toolbox, activate ASSIGN CORE KEYS.
2. Select the key on your communication overlay that contains the prompt you want to erase.
3. Activate the Rename Icon key
4. Activate CLEAR DISPLAY from your spelling overlay to erase the name of the label. The current name disappears from the text display area. If you do not want to add a different label to the icon, activate OK.
5. If you want a new label, type it in and then activate OK.
To Erase a Content Prompt
1. In the Toolbox, activate ERASE CORE.
2. Activate the icon sequence whose contents you want to erase.
3. Activate YES (or NO if you change your mind).
Important! When you delete a Content Prompt, you are deleting the message that was stored under that icon sequence