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AAC messaging and vocabulary

This site provides access to acrostic poems which typically uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line. This can be an useful tool in-class to make the process vocabulary acquisition more challenging and interesting.

The pictorial vocabulary guide contains image based pages (les plantes) as well as complementary pages with adjectives, verbs, and expressions (les taches ménagères). Place your cursor over an object or text to hear it pronounced aloud. bulbWhen using the pictorial guides it's best to participate in an active way. Guess the word - even say it aloud yourself - and let the voice you hear be your friendly tutor that either corrects or confirms your guess.

Our site is designed to help you memorize English, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin) or Spanish vocabulary in an easy, fun way that really works. The exercises use pictures, sounds and games to make learning a new language as fun as enjoying a piece of chocolate!

information provided by a pediatric otolaryngoloy; Vocal Cord Paralysis; explained in parent friendly vocabulary

This site provides an array of interactive tools including web resources, student materials, and class activities for literary acquisition. Students can engage in different reading, writing, listening, and vocabulary tasks to make the process of learning easy and fun.

FUNBRAIN will show you a picture. Click on the word that best describes the picture. To start, click on a topic below.

This site has a number of games and worksheets that are interactive and engaging for improving vocabulary skills of school children. Activities are aimed at facilitation of word acquisition and refining of already acquired vocabulary bank.

Treasures for Teachers is a free site with downloadable games, posters, and resources. The section on language and vocabulary is a huge collection of games to help develop expressive and receptive language skills. The section on phonemic awareness contains several colorful activities.

To the left is a board with 20 core words on it.  Some people wonder how many things can be said with 20 words.  I thought I would give it a try:

A new word based game for each day of the month; interactive

free materials, books and other reading based materials; much more access with a subscription

Symbol sets with realistic looking pictures to be used for AAC

This site provides easy to understand picture symbols covering wide variety of topics, so that AAC users with limited literary skills can have access to information and vocabulary.

This website offers many symbols that are realistic and colorful for AAC users.

WordSift is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language. Cut and paste any text into WordSift and the program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text.

Selects most frequent words from inputted text. Visual thesaurus feature.

Insert words and multiple games are created from your words. Focus in on spelling (incl teaching and test) but can be adopted