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For more than 20 years, Boardmaker has been the go-to solution for providing symbol-based learning materials to students with special needs. Boardmaker Online is a complete system for delivering personalized instruction and therapy while also measuring student progress.

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.  

Hatch, Erickson, Geist Presentation ATIA15

"Bilingual communication boards to start off communication" many languages and visual supports available pre-made

"A series of resources designed to help patients with learning difficultiesunderstand the procedures, sequence of events and people associated with avisit to hospital."

This PDF consists of 12 grids of core vocabulary words with Pixon symbols - one for each month of the year. This is one approach to consider when introducing core vocabulary to students.

"These materials are supplemental to those found in the Pixon Project Kit"

This link will connect you to a wealth of low tech communication resources and strategies using Pixon core vocabulary symbols.

GREAT RESOURCE for Core Vocabulary and implementation and general AAC support See Core Samples for a nice variety of boards in a variety of symbol sets

Core vocabulary resources

Children and adults with developmental delays have benefited from the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems to develop language skills necessary for more generative and functional communication. Beginning communicators however, have historically been considered too young or too pre-linguistic and therefore have not been introduced to AAC systems until behaviors, thought to be prerequisites, have been noted. Recent research and theories about early communication development have challenged this traditional practice and broadened the scope of what is considered to be AAC. Practitioners and parents unfamiliar with early AAC options may not recognize possible applications of communication strategies used with typically developing children and older persons with developmental disabilities. AAC is applicable at all ages for learning communication roles and behaviors as well as for functional communication for persons who do not yet demonstrate clear referential symbol use. This article addresses nine questions that are frequently asked about early introduction of AAC systems to children under 3 years of age. Rationales and strategies are provided that can assist early interventionists and parents in considering AAC options for children at risk for being unintelligible or non-speaking.

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.

Video of a book made by educators and students focusing on language.

Proloquo2Go is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default

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Simple test that quickly determines what type of person one is dealing with. Complete activity instructions.

University of NC at Charlotte's website of adapted books that go along with curriculum in NC standard course of study. The books open with and print with Writing with Symbols, a rebus based software tool. A simplified Word version is available as well that can be used alone or with other graphic generating software.

adapted texts for older students University of North Carolina at Charlotte UNC-Charlotte Charlotte's Web

SymbolWorld is a website created by Widgit Software specifically for symbol users. It has material for all ages and includes news, personal contributions, stories and learning materials.SymbolWorld is designed to be easy to navigate, with the option to personalise the layout and colours to suit any reader's needs.