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Downham School - Masses of free online symbol resources from Downham School, Plymouth. Subjects include Literacy, Numeracy, P.H.S.E, Science, Geography and much much more...
SymbolWorld - SymbolWorld is a non-commercial website, providing safe, fun and easy to use on-line resources for symbol users. The ideas on the site have come from people with learning difficulties, their teachers and carers.
Askability.org,uk - From the Children's Society a free resource for children and young people, with news, events, jokes, reviews and opportunities to share ideas and stores.
ISAAC - The International Society for AAC - works to improve the life of every child and adult with speech difficulties. ISAAC members want everyone in the world to know about AAC.
Find a Voice - Aims to help children and adults with communication difficulties literally to 'Find A Voice'. We provide on-line information to everyone and personal support to individuals, their carers and professionals in Kent and Medway.
Rainforest Website - Tools for Inclusion commissioned Twan Leenders at Rara Avis to develop the Rainforest website as a resource for British schools. They also commissioned Widgit to create the accessible symbols site to facilitate inclusion of pupils with special needs.
Check the Map - is a free website packed full of information for disabled people and their parents or carers about learning disability services.
Priory Woods School - is an all age community special school for students with severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple needs. This site contains lots of examples of students' work written in symbols, text, graphic, audio and video formats.
Moorcroft School - Is a special school for students with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties. They have set up a web site to share things they believe makes them successful, together with ideas that you may find useful. Some of the pages have been written by students themselves using symbols.
Meldreth Manor Scope School - This site has been specifically designed for people who have difficulty controlling a mouse pointer and buttons, and who may have language impairment and/or visual difficulties. Information is available here about school activities, curriculum and events. Separate areas of the site provide textual information about the school and full contact details and the school's own area uses a combination of text and symbols, as well as sound and video.
The Advisory Unit, Computers in Education - This site has information about their project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The site has material in symbol format as well as outcomes from the project.
Johanna Frohm in the USA - Has made a site on Symbols and Computer Technology explaining how her adult son used symbols as part of his communication system, using them for reading and writing.
News-2-You - A Symbol Newspaper - News-4-You is a symbol newspaper designed for children and adults with learning disabilities. A weekly newspaper illustrated with line-drawn pictures. Receive 3-4 pages of current events, a craft or recipe, a joke, and an activity page that relates to the week's lead story. Although it is written in the USA most of the topics will be of interest to anyone. You can download a sample copy from the site.
Beyond Autism - PECS, non-verbal communication, pcs, augmentative communication info. - a useful page full of links to some of the sites I have already discussed and an array of downloadable symbol and picture resources.
The Anthony Toby Homes Trust Site - Anthony Toby Homes Trust own and run two homes for people with learning disabilities in Berkshire. Widgit Software has been invaluable in helping the trust add Widgit symbol support to the Trust's web site. We hope this sort of support is of value when people with learning disabilities are thinking about the future, perhaps about the type of accommodation they might prefer. If other agency's sites could provide similar pages, people who do not understand text could access useful information across a wide range of services and facilities. We are developing our site and welcome your visit and feedback on site accessibility and your use of symbols.
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