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"The visuals engine will help you build visual supports and sequences for your child."

List of books with repeated lines useful for helping students practice learning to read or learn language. When teaching language, use stories and songs with lines that repeat, with more lines that repeat, and with even more lines that repeat. When targeting specific words, expose students to the same words over and over and over and over and over. Use the Symbolate feature of Boardmaker to place pictures over each word to adapted stories or books with repetitive lines.  

CODES infor "Overlays You will need Boardmaker installed on your computer to open most of these files. Communication Books, Storybags, Low Tech Communication Kits, Tech 8/32 overlays, Games Pack Overlays Timetables" The CODES Framework now has its own website, please click on link to visit page http://codesframework.wordpress.com/ The Codes Framework - What is a successful AAC communicator and how do we know the individual is an effective communicator?

sample communication boards in boardmaker and pdf

This wonderful PrAACtical AAC blog explains how to create a large core vocabulary board with Velcroed picture communication symbols to display in the classroom that students can interact with, providing more opportunities for aided language input and practice in using core vocabulary as a group. Includes a step-by-step video on how to create the board.

Free adapted books and lessons - Boardmaker and PDF. Free adapted books also available in Spanish and Indonesian.

Clever adapted books created from Tarheel Reader books and other resources

SEE ME, FEEL ME, TOUCH ME, HEAR ME: Adapting Books for Divergent Learners PowerPoint Presentation Click on this link for a document containing instructions, considerations, samples, resources, specific units, and sites for assisitve technology support materials The A-Z of Adapting Books for Students with Disabilities in Virginia Click on this link for a document filled with resources specifically for adapting books by Ynez Peterson, OTR/L, AT Specialist Click on this link for ideas on how to fill your room with literacy while meeting the needs of diverse learners by Judy Owens and Gerald Abner SET-BC Accessible Books Video demonstrations on creating and FREE accessible books for downloading from Special Education Technology-British Columbia To download, open, edit and print these files, you must have Boardmaker® software , available at www.mayer-johnson.com .

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Create symbol based communication and educational materials to support the literacy needs of any student. The program includes over 4500 symbols and 22 different languages.

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step-by-step tutorial on using symbolate

This ever-growing library consists of totes containing a hard copy of a book, a Literacy Planner, a Reading Communication Board, props, and more! Many of the resources created/reproduced come from sites including KizClub (http://kizclub.com) for props, Baltimore City Schools (http://bit.ly/BCSchools) for Boardmaker visual supports, Making Learning Fun (www.makinglearningfun.com) for theme-based activities.

An immense collection of pre-made visuals for home or school

test speaking of speech

Allegheny IU nice comprehensive collection , Core Vocabulary List for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, boardmaker, Pixon, sample board, word lists

allegheny IU lots and lots of Core Vocabulary resources