Starter board sizes

Public AAC seeds every new person with the full Core words board (4 rows × 5 columns). If that’s too dense to start with, two smaller presets carry the same words in the same relative places, so nothing has to be re-learned when the grid grows:

Preset	Grid	Best for
First words	2×3	The very first taps — a handful of high-power words
Small core	3×3	Early phrase-building without visual overload
Core words	4×5	The full starter vocabulary, including social phrases

You can pick a size in two places:

• Quick setup (the first-run wizard) — step 2, “How many buttons?”.
• Setup → People — the Start from selector when adding a new person.

Quick setup, step 2: pick a starting size.

Because the presets are subsets of one board, moving up a size later keeps every learned position stable — want stays where want has always been. Why the boards lead with words like want and more instead of nouns: see What is a core words board?.