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"Visual tasks are useful activities designed to stimulate and engage. Click an image below to view the task, or view our entire collection of visual tasks."

"Symbly is a new way to create, share, and go with visual supports, communication boards, visual schedules, social stories, and more. The primary design goals of Symbly are to provide a new tool for special education that: Makes it easy for beginners to create visual supports through the support of templates and examples created by experts Provides the tools that power users need to quickly create, manage, and share an entire library of visual supports Promotes a healthy community of parents and professionals focused on creating visual supports utilizing best practices Features an easy-to-use editor with great image search, drag-and-drop editing, and more Runs completely in the web browser without the need for any special plugins (no Flash, Silverlight, etc.) and is accessible from anywhere in the world Connects parents and therapists together more than ever before through ease of use, sharing capabilities, and real-time collaborative editing Provides the best mobile experience possible, to allow you to view and edit your supports on the go."

Great blog post of apps categorized by skills from Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: 

" My awesome new solution is to use my new iPad with my voice for simple picture choices."

"Welcome to the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities' Assistive Technology wiki. Here you will find links, vendors, stories, and virtually anything else that relates to Assistive Technology. EXPLORE, LEARN, ENJOY"

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs blog

"Browse through more than 100 pages of free printable items suitable for task creation"

"A look at how visual supports for children with autism could be improved through customized supports and an open-source image librar"

"How it works: I give the bus driver a stack of 'report cards' at the beginning of each month. Each morning he checks the appropriate boxes (and sometimes writes notes about the previous afternoon) and gives the paper to the student. The student delivers the paper to me (or classroom teacher) on the way to class each morning. If the student has met his goal at the end of the week, he receives a reward. "

"Picto Selector is a freeware windows application and contains over 22000 pictos"

Lots of great links

"Create, Share, and Go with Visual Supports and More Symbly is a new tool to create and share visual supports, communication boards, social narratives, and more. It features a powerful editor, an amazing community, expert examples, and an iPad app for supports on the go"

"Want to be a tester? Routinely is a visual communication aide that lets you build routines based on pictures. With Routinely you can: Create routines based on simple tasks or choices using a gorgeous set of built in illustrations or use your own (our current set of illustrations is limited at this point, but we will add more soon) Take photos with your camera or import them from your photo library Set routines to start at particular times of the day Add timers to your tasks and choices Manage the pictures you have added to Routinely separately from your photo library Lock Routinely to switch from an add/edit mode to a simpler routine flow mode"

"LessonPix in an online resource to create customized learning materials. LessonPix is only $36.00 per year. This gives you unlimited access to all our pictures, resources, wizards, and tools, for only two dollars a month. It is a great deal!"

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

"A Noise Level Meter built to help control the noise level of groups of children. As the noise level in a classroom increases beyond an acceptable level the noise level meter dynamically indicates the level of noise, and the background graphics within the app change to reflect the noise levels."

"A therapist and teacher can use this scale to first teach emotions, strategies, and self-reflection, and then teach the child to apply these in the classroom"

"These resources are intended as a starting point to learn more about visual supports and to offer templates and suggestions to begin creating your own visual support material"