Help students communicate more confidently at school and at home.
VoxNovaAAC helps teachers and families support communication with practical, easy-to-use AAC tools designed for real daily routines.
See VoxNovaAAC in Action
Watch how teachers create boards, assign them to students, and give families immediate access at home—in just a few minutes.
Classroom Example
Home Example
What Educators Are Saying
"Easy to introduce into routines without overwhelming staff."
— Special Education Teacher
"Students started participating more quickly than expected."
— Classroom Aide
"Much easier to explain to families."
— Speech Therapist
What's in the Program Suite
One integrated platform replaces 5+ separate tools. Everything a special education team needs—communication, instruction, data, and collaboration—connected and consistent.
Communication Boards
Photo-to-button AAC creation with drag-and-drop editing, TTS and recorded voice, board assignment, and student-friendly playback with sentence strip support.
Lesson Planning & Delivery
Week/Day/Month planning views with periods, lesson decks with teach mode, standards alignment, substitute plans, and copy-week workflows.
IEP Goals & Data
Create goals, take data in the moment, track prompt levels and mastery, visualize progress on trend charts, and export CSV for IEP meetings.
Parent Portal & Dashboard
Parents get a dedicated dashboard with daily snapshots, weekly insights, goal progress, behavioral notes, calendar events, and accessibility controls.
Messaging & Collaboration
Teacher-parent threads with board and button sharing, peer discovery, group conversations, polls, events, and celebration messages.
Reports & Analytics
Most-used buttons, daily usage, prompt distribution, event feeds, and CSV export. Data flows naturally from classroom use—no extra data entry.
Consistency matters.
- Learners communicate best when vocabulary and layout stay consistent across environments.
- Teachers need fast creation and easy assignment.
- Parents need simple, reliable access at home—without rebuilding everything.
VoxNova Inc. connects school and home with clear roles and simple pricing.
How it works
1) Create buttons from real life
Take a photo, add a label, choose TTS or recorded voice.
2) Build boards and assign to students
Teachers publish boards to a student profile.
3) Tap to communicate
Students open assigned boards and use consistent vocabulary across school and home.
For Teachers
Whether you run an all-day self-contained classroom or teach period-based classes, VoxNova gives you one place to manage communication, instruction, data, and parent collaboration.
Classroom management
- Student roster with multi-class support
- Create classes, set colors, schedules, and segments
- Share students across teachers in a district Coming soon
- Assign boards and lessons to individual students or classes
- "Act-as student" mode for previewing and demonstrating
Instruction & content
- Photo-to-button board creation with drag-and-drop editing
- Lesson decks with teacher-paced teach mode
- Week/Day/Month planning with standards alignment
- Substitute plans for continuity when you're out
- Share boards with families for home use
Data & reporting
- IEP goal tracking with mastery targets and trend charts
- Take data with one tap—percent accuracy, prompt levels, notes, photos
- Most-used buttons, daily usage, and prompt distribution reports
- CSV export for IEP meetings
- Print data sheets for documentation
Communication & collaboration
- Message parents directly with board and button attachments
- Peer messaging with other teachers
- Share boards and resources in conversation threads
- Block/unblock and discovery controls
For Parents
VoxNova is free for every family — forever. No caps, no paywall, no “lite” version. Parents get the full experience: home boards, messaging with teachers, a dashboard that tracks your child's progress, and accessibility controls designed for real families.
Everything parents need — free
Tools designed for every family, with no cost to use them.
- Use teacher-assigned boards at home — free
- Create unlimited home boards and buttons — free
- Track unlimited children — free
- Full parent dashboard: daily snapshots, weekly insights, goal progress, behavioral notes — free
- Message teachers with board and button sharing — free
- Peer messaging with other parents — free
- Accessibility controls (text size, contrast, dyslexia font, reduce motion) — free
- Language preference for notifications — free
- Now available in Spanish — full app interface, boards, and notifications — Ahora disponible en español — free
Our promise to families: every parent feature is free, always. If you'd like to help keep it that way, an optional Supporter contribution is available — it unlocks nothing extra, it just helps us keep parents free.
Built-in Messaging
Communication between teachers, parents, and peers is integrated directly into VoxNova—no need for a separate app. Share boards and buttons right inside conversations.
Teacher ↔ Parent
Direct message threads between teachers and linked parents. Attach boards and buttons so families can immediately use shared vocabulary at home.
Peer messaging
Teachers can connect with other teachers. Parents can connect with other parents. Discover peers in your school or organization and start conversations.
Rich messages
Go beyond plain text—create polls, schedule events, send celebration messages, and share boards and buttons directly in any conversation.
Teacher Lesson Planning
Plan instruction in the same place you manage boards and goals. Use Week/Day/Month views, periods, recurrence, and fast rescheduling to stay ahead—without juggling multiple tools.
Plan the week at a glance
- Week / Day / Month views with quick add
- Period lanes (optional) with an Unassigned lane
- Repeat rules: daily-this-week and weekly
- Drag/drop rescheduling and a fast Move action
Make plans actionable
- Link a Board to a planning item for instant student access
- Link a Lesson Deck to your plan
- Print-friendly Week view for binders and walkthroughs
- Copy week forward to build routines quickly
1) Set up periods
Add your class periods (optional) and keep the schedule consistent.
2) Plan lessons
Week/Day/Month views help you see what’s coming and adjust fast.
3) Link boards & decks
Attach Boards and Lesson Decks to items so plans become instruction.
Standards Alignment
Search published standards catalogs and attach standards to planning items and IEP goals. Keep alignment visible for instruction, documentation, and team communication.
Find the right standard fast
- Search across published standards documents
- Filters for jurisdiction / subject / grade band
- Copy/paste code fallback when needed
Attach standards where you plan and track
- Attach standards to planning items
- Attach standards to IEP goals for compliance documentation
- Admin ingestion pipeline for new standards files
Lesson Decks
Create lesson decks and link them from your weekly plan. Lesson Decks support teacher-led instruction and classroom routines by keeping lesson steps organized and ready to deliver.
Create and organize
- Create Lesson Decks for activities, routines, and instruction
- Organize lesson steps in a clear, repeatable sequence
- Keep lesson content consistent across the classroom
Connect planning to instruction
- Link a deck from a planning item
- Plan once and reuse week-to-week
- Pair decks with Boards to support communication during instruction
IEP Goal Tracking & Data Collection
Track every student's progress toward IEP and classroom goals—right where you already manage their boards. Create goals in seconds, take data with a single tap, attach standards for alignment documentation, and watch mastery trends emerge on clear, visual charts.
Create goals fast
- IEP or classroom goal types
- Categories: Daily Living, Academic Readiness, Math, Reading, Communication
- Configurable data collection: percent accuracy, rate, observation notes, student samples, mastery criteria, prompt levels
- Set mastery percent targets (e.g., 80%) so you always know when a student is on track
- Add objectives with status tracking (not started / in progress / mastered)
- Bulk-create the same goal for an entire class in one click
Take data in the moment
- Dynamic data entry—only the fields your goal uses appear
- Percent accuracy, rate, prompt level, observation notes, mastery notes, student sample text
- Snap a photo right from the data collection dialog
- All prompt types: Independent, Physical, Verbal, Model, Gestural, Visual
- Data is timestamped and saved instantly
1) Create a goal
IEP or classroom. Pick data collection options. Set a mastery target.
2) Take data
Tap. Record percent accuracy, prompt level, notes, photos—whatever the goal needs.
3) Watch progress
Trend charts show exactly where each student stands. Export to CSV for IEP meetings.
Built for IEP teams. Take the data you already need to collect, visualize it instantly, and walk into your next IEP meeting with clear evidence of student growth—no spreadsheets required.
Pricing
Parents: free, forever. Teachers start free and upgrade when they need more. Every paid teacher account includes the full program suite—boards, planning, goals, messaging, reports, and parent portal.
Parents: Free. Forever.
Every parent feature in VoxNova, at no cost. No trial. No feature gate. No “lite” version.
- Unlimited home boards and buttons
- Unlimited children
- Access and use teacher-assigned boards
- Full parent dashboard: daily snapshots, weekly insights, goal progress, behavioral notes
- Message teachers with board and button sharing
- Peer messaging with other parents
- Accessibility controls and language preferences
Optional: Support VoxNova — $5.95/month or $59.95/year
- Unlocks nothing extra — every parent feature is already free
- Helps us keep VoxNova free for every family
- Cancel anytime
Teachers
Free — Get started with a small set of boards
- Create up to 3 boards and 30 buttons
- Create up to 1 lesson deck and 3 lessons
- Assign boards to students
- Student-friendly playback
Teacher Account — $7.95/month or $79.95/year
- Unlimited boards, buttons, students, lesson decks, and lessons
- Multi-class roster management
- Lesson planning (Week/Day/Month) + lesson decks
- IEP goal tracking + data collection + CSV export
- Reports: usage, prompt distribution, most-used
- Parent messaging with board sharing
- Standards alignment + substitute plans
- Share boards with families
- Cancel anytime
Clear roles. No accidental edits.
- Students: tap-to-speak playback on assigned boards
- Teachers: create boards, plan lessons, track goals, message parents, view reports
- Parents: unlimited home boards, full dashboard, messaging with teachers and peers — free, always
Every role sees only what they need. Teachers control what students see. Parents see their own children.
New to AAC or Classroom Implementation?
We’ve built starter libraries so you don’t have to create everything from scratch. Community boards and buttons shared by other educators are ready to import into your account. Interactive lesson decks give teachers a structured starting point for instruction.
🌐 Community Boards
Browse and import AAC boards created and shared by teachers across the community. Filter by category, preview before importing, and have a board in your classroom in seconds.
Available inside the app after sign-in — free for all users.
🌐 Community Buttons
Find individual AAC buttons shared by the community—vocabulary, core words, activity-specific sets. Import any button directly into your own boards.
Available inside the app after sign-in — free for all users.
📚 Community Lessons
Interactive lesson decks for teachers—structured activities, routines, and curricula ready to deliver in teach mode. Link a deck to your lesson plan and use it the same day.
Available inside the app under the Lesson Suite — teacher accounts.
Ready to get started?
Create a free account, browse the libraries, and have your first board assigned to a student today.
Help shape VoxNova
You're using VoxNova in beta — your feedback directly drives what we build next. Tell us what's working, what's missing, and what would make your day easier. It takes about 2 minutes.
Quick beta feedback survey
Teachers, parents, and administrators welcome. Anonymous responses accepted — no account required.
FAQ
What's included in the free plan?
Parents get everything free. Unlimited home boards and buttons, unlimited children, the full parent dashboard, messaging with teachers and peers, and all accessibility features. Teachers start free with up to 3 boards, 30 buttons, 1 lesson deck, and 3 lessons, then upgrade when they need more.
Why are parents free?
Families shouldn't have to pay to support their child's communication. VoxNova is funded by teachers and schools so every parent can use the full app at no cost — forever. If you'd like to help keep it that way, an optional Supporter contribution is available.
What devices does it work on?
VoxNova is web-based and works on iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, phones, laptops, and smartboards—any device with a modern browser.
Is it just for non-verbal students?
No. VoxNova serves the full spectrum of special education—from non-verbal students who need picture communication to graduating students who benefit from structured lessons, goal tracking, and classroom management.
Can I use it for IEP documentation?
Yes. Create IEP goals, take data during instruction, visualize progress on trend charts, and export CSV reports for IEP meetings—all built in.
How do parents stay connected?
Parents get their own dashboard showing daily activity, weekly insights, goal progress, and behavioral notes. They can message teachers directly and share boards between home and school.
Can teachers message parents through VoxNova?
Yes. Built-in messaging lets teachers and parents communicate directly, share boards and buttons in conversations, and stay connected without a separate messaging app.
Does it work for self-contained and period-based classes?
Yes. Multi-class roster management, class schedules, and period lanes in lesson planning support both all-day self-contained classrooms and period-based schedules.
How much does it cost for a school? Coming soon
Parents are free. Teachers start at $7.95/month (or $79.95/year). School and district pricing is coming soon—join our waitlist and we’ll reach out when it’s ready.
One platform for your entire special education program.
Stop juggling separate tools for communication, planning, data, and parent updates. VoxNova brings it all together—designed specifically for special education classrooms.