An increasing body of literature demonstrates the effectiveness of interventions involving speech-generating devices (SGD) for children with autism with limited vocal speech output abilities. Few studies have evaluated interventions that teach children to "travel" to the device before making requests. The current study evaluated a five-second time delay with physical prompts to teach "traveling" to three preschool aged children with autism, who used the iPad® and application Proloquo2Go™ as a SGD. A multiple stimulus without replacement preference assessment was used to determine preferred items for which the participant would mand (request) for access to, and mand trials were contrived with the tablet-based SGD at a predetermined distance from the participant. The distance between the SGD and participant was then systematically increased from next to the participant, to six feet (1.83 m) away from the participant. Each participant acquired the ability to travel from the location of the SGD, and then to the listener, and to mand for an item using the SGD, to a criterion of 80% independence across three consecutive sessions. This study adds support to the existing literature on the use of interventions involving tablet-based SGDs for children with autism, as well as provides clinicians with a procedure for teaching traveling.