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SETTING UP YOUR DEVICE
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You can choose to have Label Prompts or Content Prompts spoken. You might also want
Category Prompts. You must turn the prompts On in the AUDITORY PROMPTS MENU.
Label Prompt
This is whatever the label (or name) is that has been assigned to a specific icon. If you changed a
label during the storing process, the prompt will be whatever you changed the label to. For
example, you may have changed the UMBRELLA label to "Weather." The prompt will be
"Weather" in that case.
Content Prompt
This tells your device to speak whatever message is stored with a particular icon. If no message
is stored, the label is spoken. For example, if "Salad" is stored under the sequence APPLE
FROG, when you activate APPLE you will hear "Apple." When you activate FROG you will
hear, "Salad."
Sometimes the contents of a message may be too long to be a helpful prompt. For example, the
message may be a song, in which case you would not want the Content Prompt to be the singing
of the whole song. To avoid this, when you assign a content prompt to a long message, use
EDIT CORE, select the message, scroll to the end of the message, use INSERT TOOL to
insert the Tool, PROMPT MARKER, then type the prompt you want to use, such as the name
of the song. Your device will speak the text that follows the Prompt Marker. The prompt will
not be displayed on the screen or spoken with the rest of the text in the regular message.
Category Prompt
Category Prompts are used only if you are scanning.
Category prompts should help you locate where you are on the keyboard, e.g., "Row 1 Column
1" or "Row 3 Column E". 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, "Row 1,
School."
Use the ASSIGN CORE KEYS menu to create Category Prompts for Core vocabulary keys.
Use the MODIFY ACTIVITY and MODIFY PAGE menus to assign Category Prompts to
Activity Rows or Pages.
During the storing process you are asked to select a key to create or modify. You select a key
from your overlay. If the key you select is a possible Category key (that is, it is a key in the first
row or the first column of your overlay) an option to Store a Category Prompt becomes visible
in the menu. When you select this option, your device takes you to your spelling overlay where
you spell the prompt you want to use, for instance, "School" or "Science." When you are
through, activate OK.
To Erase a Category Prompt:
1. In the Toolbox, activate ASSIGN CORE KEYS; MODIFY PAGE or MODIFY
ACTIVITY menus.