A set of symbols from Essex County Council

Workshop Words

A symbol sheet for the workshop

Photography

A symbol resource to use in photography lessons

 

News-2-You Free until 30th June

http://www.news-2-you.co.uk/

http://www.news-2-you.co.uk/

News-2.you is free until June 3oth June 2012

Every fortnight, News-2-You readers connect with the world through their very own currents events newspaper. They read the story of the week and work with the related activities – games, puzzles, recipes, jokes and worksheets. News-2-You is published fortnightly throughout the school year and monthly during the summer break.

Included Every Fortnight:

• Newspapers
• World News

• Worksheets
• Current Events

• Vocabulary
• Assessments

• Skill Worksheets
• Joke

• Recipe
• Holidays

• Sports News
• Puzzles / Games

News-2-You uses SymbolStix, a symbol set of over 12,000 symbols that has emerged as a world standard in picture-based communication.

A symbol based resource

Symbol resources.com

A new website with symbol resources to explore.

Free symbol resources

Geranium from ARASAAC PICTOGRAMS

ARASAAC PICTOGRAMS is a free set of symbols with an English index by Michael Hjort-Pedersen.They are hosted on this Spanish website and can be found in English below the Spanish download option.

Sclera Pictograms also offer free symbols.

Sclera Pictograms were developed in Belgium(find out more here) and are available in English.


see my other blog entries on symbol resources

Preparing Schedules

Picto selector is a Word based programme for preparing schedules and other materials for children and young people with autism. It is a free download developed by the parent of a child with autism.

It is available in a number of different languages by going to the start page

PECS for all

The program makes use of free symbols such as

Straight Street

Sclera.

Further detail on PECS for All

Symbols for the Sensory Room

Mike Ayres Designs has a free download of printable Symbols for Sensory Room items and activities. Symbols include Bubble tube, fibre optics, torches, windbox . A great resource for anyone using a Sensory environment.

Easter

Makaton has a free download available

Easter Signs and Symbols

Internet Safety Symbols

Childnet have teamed up with Widgit software to produce some good safety rules when using the Internet.
This resource has been especially designed for children and young people with a learning disability.
These can which can be downloaded for free in PDF form. Communication in Print Version


There are also Flash cards with suggestions of how to use them to improve knowledge of E Safety.

Boardmaker Basics

The Adapted Learning website has a very good introduction to using Boardmaker. The recorded web broadcast is 45 minutes.

There are also advanced tutorials. The tutorial can be found in the News and Views section and then by selecting the Getting started.

Point -Symbols on demand.

The Eden project website site has a good example of Point a new product from Widgit.(read the explanation here)The product is is a new piece of augmentative software that website owners can use to assist learning disabled visitors to their website. When the visitor hovers their mouse over a word, a list of symbols that illustrate the possible meanings of the word appears. You can also view another example of Point in action at Ability Net.

Just Pictures

Sometimes pictures are just what we need to get us talking:

self explanatory slings

via commomcraft blog

The wordless universal phrase book from icoon

Imagine Symbols

Imagine Symbols .This set of symbols is available free for non commercial use.The symbols are designed for AAC users with limited literacy skills.The files can be downloaded by giving name and contact details. The Zip file is 291 MB and took me 10 minutes to download. I read about this on " Les Infos Flash" .Once downloaded the files are neatly categorised into different folders such as House. The House folder is then divided into rooms such as Kitchen, Bathroom and Laundry.

Pictograms from Axelia

Axelia Pictogram is a French site which has a free library of symbols to download .
These can be used for non commercial purposes.The page can be translated if you find it is in French when you open it. Google has a translate option.
I have found the best way to save the pictures is to download by categories which can be found under the Library pictograms on the home page . Each picture is labelled in French so searching by name is not an option for me!
The download is a Zip files . On my computer these automatically open with WINRAR.
First create a folder in My Pictures .Choose the Save option. Save to your new folder when the download is complete .Choose the Open Folder option. You will see a zip file logo. Right click on the logo and choose Extract Here. The pictures will appear in the folder!
Also see my blog entry How to open Zip files