You don't have to build every board from scratch. TinkySpeak has a community side: browse and reuse boards other people have already made, find verified clinicians, join groups, and attend events — all in the same free builder. Nobody is selling anything. People who've solved a communication problem share what worked, so the next family doesn't start at zero.
TinkySpeak has a full social side built into the same free app. Here's everything that lives in it, in one view. Each of these is a real surface you can open from the Community.
The Community surface is your front door. Instead of a generic grid, it greets you with what's new in your groups, boards recommended for you, and what's trending across Tinky. From there you branch into topics, the template library, and individual published boards you can open, load, and adapt.
The Community landing shows three honest sections: what's new in groups you've joined, boards recommended for you (and "popular this month" when there's nothing to recommend yet), and what's trending across the whole community. No ranking games — just the work people are actually sharing.
Published boards are organized by topic so you can jump straight to the area you need — mealtime, doctor visits, classroom routines, emergencies — and see what others made for the same moment.
Open any published board, load it into the builder, then rename tiles, swap emoji, or translate it. Reuse beats rebuilding — start from someone else's good work instead of a blank grid. (The full Templates library lives in the Implement section below.)
Beyond individual boards, the community shares whole patterns of communication you can adopt in one step — routines to install and a catalog of AAC tech to explore.
A routine is a sequenced set of steps for a recurring moment — a morning routine, a bedtime wind-down, a doctor-visit script. Browse public routines others have shared (no account needed to explore), then install one to make it yours, or fork it and adapt the steps.
The template library is hundreds of ready-made boards. Open any one, load it into the builder, and rename tiles, swap emoji, or translate it. Starting from someone else's good work beats a blank grid.
A catalog of AAC tools and tech — alongside the Tinky product line — so you can see what else is out there in the AAC landscape. An honest map of the space, not a sales pitch.
The Providers directory is a public, searchable list of speech-language pathologists and AAC clinicians. Therapists register their own listing and submit it for verification — and only verified listings are shown publicly. You don't need an account to browse it.
Filter the directory by specialty, state or country, whether the clinician sees clients remotely, accepted insurance, and languages spoken — then read each verified clinician's profile.
A clinician creates a draft listing, then submits it to a review queue. Until it's verified it stays private — the public directory never surfaces unverified or removed listings. That keeps the directory trustworthy for families choosing who to work with.
Claim your profile, describe your practice, list your specialties and languages, and get verified so families can find you. Listing yourself is free.
AAC can feel isolating. Groups and events are how the community stays human — a place to ask, share, and meet people working on the same things you are.
Browse a directory of public groups organized around a condition, a role, a school, or a region. Join open groups to follow what members are sharing, or start your own — public groups go through a quick approval before they're listed.
An upcoming-events feed shows scheduled events across the community, ordered by what's coming up soonest. RSVP to the ones you want to attend. You see public events as a guest, plus events from any private groups you belong to once you're signed in.
Sharing a board, answering a question, publishing a template — it adds up. A little gentle gamification rewards the people who help others, without turning communication into a contest.
See top contributors ranked by their community karma — this week, this month, or all-time. There's even a clinician-only ranking based on published templates and contribution, never on private usage data.
React to boards, posts, and more. Reactions are a quiet way to say "this helped me" — and to surface the boards that are genuinely useful to other people.
Browse a public catalog of achievements and unlock them as you participate — publishing your first board, joining a group, helping others. Small milestones that mark the journey.
A communication board can carry personal details. So publishing to the community runs through a safety step, every time.
When you publish a board, the server runs a PII scrubber on it before anything goes public — and it runs unconditionally, no matter what the app claims. If it flags anything personal, publishing pauses and shows you exactly what it found, field by field, with a reason. Nothing is shared until you review it and confirm "Redact & Publish" — and the version that gets saved is the redacted one.
Open the builder to make a board, or head straight into the community to see what everyone else has shared. It's all free, and it all lives in one place.
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