25th April 2023

Hey All,

Weekly email is coming a little bit early this week as I am on annual leave until Monday the 5th of June. If you need me urgently you can get me on 07414525394

Alphabet Board Keyguard

This week I spent the majority of my time working on our upcoming Alphabet Board Keyguard that we have had in the works for a while.

Our plan is to sell this new Alphabet Board Keyguard on our website. The main difference between our product and the Frenchay Alphabet Board is that our is cusomisable, you can switch the alphabet chart out to accomodate different colours, languages etc.

I spent some time coming up with a thoughough plan of how we can market and sell this product and what we need to do to produce that. Let me know if you want a copy of the document.

I also spent time creating the alphabet charts that will fit into the physical keyguard. You can see a demo of those charts here: https://acecentre.org.uk/resources/keyguard-resource-demo More options will be added in the future.

Something I would like help with is naming it, I can't seem to come up with a clear, unambiguous name name. Frenchay call their product FAB (Frenchay Alphabet Board), Dad In A Shed calls it a 'LetterBoard'. When people are talking about these kinds of alphabet charts with a plastic keyguard what do they refer to them as? I think the name needs to make it clear what it is, and also differentiate from existing products ace has like our PDF alphabet charts.

Other

As always I added a new resource to launchpad, you can check it out here: https://acecentre.org.uk/resources/look-at-photos

I also spent a little bit of time digging into some of our asset data, specifically around how much recycling of our devices we do. Anna gave the data to Policy Connect who are providing a summary for a House of Lords discussion on Assistive Technology! Thanks to George and Jemma for helping me figure that one out!

You will also see a mention to TextAloud in this weeks CM Newsletter