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"Today we're back with the 2nd Year of Core Words, this time with 16 words/month. If you follow along, you'll have covered 192 new core words by the end. Once again, we created 12 grids of core vocabulary words - one for each month of the year. Each grid has 16 cells labeled with core words. Plug in the AAC symbols that your client uses (e.g., PCS, SmartySymbols, Unity, Pixons, etc.), print, laminate, and keep them handy. Feel free to adapt the grids with other core words, if you wish, or do anything else that makes them more useful in your work"

"Path Input is a quick, smart and fun input solution on iPhone and iPod touch. Its distinctive features are as followed: ★★★★ Path Input Keyboard ★★★★ Input a word by drawing its path on the keyboard. For example, to input the word "book", you can touch down your finger at key 'B', move to key 'O', then to key 'K' and lift up your finger. This input mode can tolerate the error. In the above case, if you lift up your finger at key 'L', you can also get the word "book" since "bol", "bool" or "boll" is not meaningful or common English word."

You can create a form in Microsoft Word by starting with a template and adding content controls, including check boxes, text boxes, date pickers, and drop-down lists. Other people can use Word to fill out the form on their computer. In an advanced scenario, any content controls that you add to a form can also be linked to data.

"I created WriteRoom as an alternative to Microsoft Word. WriteRoom's full screen writing environment gets your computer out of the way so that you can focus on your work. The result is a subtle clearing of the mind that I think helps you write better. Simply get words on the page WriteRoom won't do page layout or insert tables and graphs. WriteRoom's focus is just to help you get words on the page. Stay focused with WriteRoom's distraction free environment. Stay on track with word count. Stay safe with autosave."

"What is Snappy Words visual English dictionary? It's an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it."

Kind of like the magnet words. You move the words to the bottom of the screen, then have your sentence read aloud via videos of people saying the individual words.

"100 Most Commonly Misspelled Words Ironically amongst the 100 most often misspelled words, 'mispell" is one of them. There is a mnemonic you can use with each one of them to help you remember how to spell the word."

Talk To Me 100 contains 100 words most frequently used in happy sadconversation. Those words are recorded and paired with symbols that represent their meaning. Press a symbol and Talk To Me 100 speaks the corresponding word: "happy". Combine more than one word and the device expresses a complete thought: "I am happy". $59.

Not programmable. 100 symbols on one page. But, hey, $59.

"LAMP Words For Life™ is a full vocabulary augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) language app that combines the power of the PRC Unity® language system with Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP™) principles and strategies. LAMP™ is a therapeutic approach based on neurological and motor learning principles as well as clinical experiences that address the language development and communication needs of children with autism. It provides a consistent motor pattern for words and a systematic way to develop communication skills allowing for unlimited language growth opportunities. "

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"Create beautiful detailed photo word clouds with your images and text! Choose your own words, select your favorite photo, pick a font and color palette and turn them in a work of art to impress friends and family. The result can be stored as a PNG, JPEG image or even a PDF document to allow for printing at extremely high resolutions."

Great videos of a kiddo and mom working together to figure out the word she needs "If I could give my voice to Maya, I would, in an instant. I'm sure any parent of a child with complex communication needs would do the same. Instead, we figure out systems and signs and devices. Maya's got her talker, along with a variety of nonverbal ways to get her point across and a spoken vocabulary of words and approximations that has undergone an impressive proliferation since the fall."

"Key Word Sign This is an external link continues to be a most valuable tool in our tool kit when supporting people with communication difficulties. Just because we have a shiny new iPad, it does NOT mean you stop moving those hands! Keep signing people! And your iPad can actually help! This blog post has some apps and ideas to help you use the iPad to support your use of Key Word Sign."

"The Dynamic Learning Maps™ (DLM) Core Vocabulary is a list of words that have been determined to be highly useful for communicating in both social and academic contexts. The words are listed in rank order of utility based on a variety of factors that are fully explained in the DLM™ Core Vocabulary Overview paper. This word list includes vocabulary that is necessary for the DLM™ Essential Elements."

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"Spubble is aimed at assisting individuals with verbal communication issues, by allowing them to communicate using a unique and intuitive interface. It allows the user to "speak" individual words, simply by tapping on them, and it allows for complete phrase creation by dragging the word icons to a speech bubble (or "spubble") at the top of the screen. These icons can also be removed from the spubble simply by dragging them out. The entire phrase can be heard by tapping the green "play" button to the right of the "spubble". Tapping the red "home" button on the bottom of the screen takes the user back to the main categories screen. Spubble Lite provides 5 categories with up to 150 words: Food People Places Numbers General (Yes, No, Thank You, You're Welcome, Left, Right, Forward, Backward, etc.) "

"the quickest, most intelligent way to improve your vocabulary. " HOW IT WORKS: 1.Answer a few questions We've created more than 40,000+ questions designed to help you learn words 2. We build a model of your knowledge Our magical technology models your brain. The more you play, the more we know about your vocabulary knowledge. 3.We predict which vocabulary words you don't know and teach them to you Get a question wrong? We'll schedule Review and Progress questions so that you'll learn the word, and won't forget it in the future.

"We all know that students find it far more challenging to answer word problems than simple equations. In Math Shake, learners practise the vital skill of solving word problems in a fun, focused way. Learners engage their critical thinking skills as they use the keywords to change word problems into equations and use interactive learning tools to visualise, image and work out their answer. Not only do learners have a range of learning tools at their fingertips, they can share their thinking by recording their working.Teachers and parents can also use Math Shake to teach learners with the interactive tools; including tens frames, number matrixes, fraction parts, number lines and counters. "

"SnaPanda is a free Android app that could help students expand their vocabulary. With SnaPanda installed on your phone you can point it at any clearly printed word on a page in a book, in a magazine, or on a sign and get the definition of that word."

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