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My Buddy Training Boards & Documentation

Learn where words live, model useful language during daily routines, and prepare the board for dependable everyday use.

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Start with the guide that fits your role

Every resource uses the organization, vocabulary, colors, and motor-planning approach of the current English My Buddy board.

Cover of the complete My Buddy AAC training kit
Everything in one binder-ready file

Download the Full Kit

Print one organized training binder for home, school, care teams, or device handoff. The full kit includes every resource below in one document.

  • Table of contents
  • Caregiver setup guide
  • Exact board map
  • Partner training
  • Seven-day practice pack
  • Low-tech backup boards
  • Sixteen routine boards
  • Alphabetical index
44 pages · US Letter PDF · Portrait and landscape pages
Preview of the My Buddy caregiver guide
Start here

Caregiver Getting Started Guide

Set up offline access and safety information, understand the board controls, model language, personalize vocabulary, and protect local data.

2 pages · US Letter PDF
Preview of the exact My Buddy core-board map
Exact board map

Core Board Teaching Guide

See the complete 12 x 7 board, learn its color key and row structure, and practice useful routes such as “I want to go to school.”

3 pages · US Letter PDF
Preview of the communication partner guide
Family, school & care teams

Communication Partner Guide

A concise training on access, modeling, wait time, responding, repair, privacy, safety, dignity, and honoring refusal.

2 pages · US Letter PDF
Preview of the seven-day My Buddy practice pack
Printable activities

Seven-Day Practice Pack

Short activities for requests, actions, comments, refusals, questions, health messages, conversation, and communication repair.

8 pages · US Letter PDF
Preview of the printable My Buddy backup board
Keep with the device

Low-Tech Backup Boards

Printable color copies of the exact Full View and Simple View boards, with My Buddy symbols and a blank message strip.

2 pages · Landscape US Letter PDF
Preview of My Buddy routine teaching boards
Use during real routines

Everyday Routine Teaching Boards

Sixteen activity pages for bathroom, handwashing, dressing, bedtime, meals, school, play, health, community, feelings, and message repair.

17 pages · Landscape US Letter PDF
Cover of the black-and-white My Buddy AAC training kit
Printer-friendly collection

Black & White Printing

These low-ink editions use gray shading, strong outlines, written category labels, and white section pages. They are designed to stay readable on ordinary black-and-white printers.

The original color collection remains available above.
B&W

Everyday Routine Teaching Boards

17 landscape pages

A simple training order

  1. Complete the app's built-in tour and enter only the personal safety information you want stored on that device.
  2. Print the backup boards and keep them with the device.
  3. Read the Caregiver Guide and give regular communication partners the Partner Guide.
  4. Choose one practice or routine board that matches a real activity that day.

Important: My Buddy is not a medical device or a substitute for an individualized AAC assessment or speech-language pathologist. Keep a backup way to communicate.