"Experience a Story: Listen to stories, read and view pictures inspired by our collections created by visitors like you.
Tell a Story: Become a storyteller as you write and record a story inspired by works in the museum's collection.
Picture a Story: Create your own work of art using objects and characters found in some of the museum's most noteworthy paintings.
Enjoy, and let your creativity flow through pictures and words!"
Great Expectations brings popular picture books to life using a multi-sensory approach - songs, tactile play, picture descriptions, body movement, engaged listening - all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.
Boardmaker Symbols for Picture Books
This is a collection of Boardmaker Symbols to use while reading picture books. Many of the boards are of books in the SET BC Accessible Book Collection. The symbols are 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches in size. These could be made smaller, then laminated and cut up to velcro to the book itself. This image is a sample of a board that can be used while reading 50 Below Zero by Robert Munsch. Download as complete zipped file
Explanation of how to participate in the 12-13 Strategy-A-Day Calendar Creative Sharing Contest. Only employees of Loudoun County Public Schools are eligible to participate in the giveaway but anyone is free to share pictures of how they've used the Strategy-A-Day Calendar. Send your pictures to Chris.Bugaj@lcps.org. Happy Sharing!
"With consideration for some of the most frequently recommended visual supports in mind, this small 5 ½ x 8" binder includes a First/Then board, a Personal Picture Schedule, and a Task Analysis Checklist, with a Finished Pocket on the front cover. Each of these is easily available by flipping or opening the folded board which is adhered to the Finished Pocket. A Token Reward board is on the back cover. The picture symbols and tokens for all these tools are housed inside the binder on plastic tabbed dividers covered in adhesive carpet tiles."
Pictures provide wonderful visual supports to support content. This YouTube video shows different ways to insert and position pictures into a MS Word document.
see list of resources, too.
not all are free
Say it with Symbols! is your first stop resource for families, caregivers, nurses and support professionals looking for easy-to-use, functional augmentative communication aids to help non-verbal loved ones and patients communicate their needs and feelings using pictures and symbols."
Baltimore City Public Schools
On this website you will find books that have been adapted using the Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) and the Mayer-Johnson program BoardMaker (c). The Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) are typically used by individuals
"When making your own PowerPoint book, a template can be a helpful time saver. The templates below are for creating ABC books and personal books for students with significant disabilities, including deaf-blindness. The templates have high contrast backgrounds and some have finger spellings. (The finger spelling photos come from Pics4Learning.com. They are free!). The templates have also been setup so that there is an auditory click and some movement when students turn the pages in the book. In all of the downloadable templates, the pages and the text boxes have already been made. Teachers, therapists and/or parents can spend time adding pictures and text, rather then the technical aspects of starting from scratch."
"Create your own customized HTML 5 widgets using our simple online generator then drag and drop into iBooks Author. Bookry widgets let you engage, challenge, entertain and interact with your readers like never before. Readers can play games, solve puzzles, draw pictures and save any data they enter into your widgets to the cloud. They can also share their data with others by email,Twitter, Facebook and Evernote."