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How to create a Visual Scene page with hotspots in LAMP Words for Life on an iPad

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LAMP Words for Life doesn’t “officially” offer a way to add Visual Scenes like the company’s TouchChat app does. So this is an “off label” hack.

LAMP Words for Life doesn’t have any premade Visual Scene pages like TouchChat (both premade hybrid visual scenes and a way to create visual scenes with hotspots on a picture) and doesn’t have all of the same editing options (can’t resize individual buttons, can’t resize the grid).

But in LAMP Words for Life you can import a photo onto a page background and create transparent buttons to be hot spots. Each of the buttons have to be set to Transparent in order for the background photo to be visible.

It’s a bit trickier to place the hotspots since you can’t resize the grid or the individual buttons.

These hotspot buttons could play recorded audio and could even use the Open Website button action to open a URL to a specific YouTube video. Or any other button action available.

If the individual is still learning the motor plans to individual words then I likely wouldn’t add phrase buttons on a Visual Scene in it.

But I might add character names or audio clips if that’s highly interesting to that individual.

I would only add something like this to LAMP if it’s something that will spark joy and interest in using it, the user wants it added and we would do it in a mindful way to not disrupt the integral design or motor plans in this app.

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