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Augmentative Communication

Augmentative Communication refers to the use of a device or software to supplement a person's ability to communicate.

Communicate: In Print 2 by Widgit. Make symbol-supported printed materials. Create "board" type layouts. Choose from a collection of templates and resources to quickly produce whatever you need. Includes the 11,000+ Widgit symbol set. Whiteboard friendly and easy to use - the whole class can collaborate on activities and documents.

The New Writing with Symbols Bundle: Communicate: In Print 2 and Communicate:Sym Writer New! This bundle gives you the tools you need to creat documents with symbols - activity sheets, reading books, visual timetables and communication device overlays.

Matrix Maker by Inclusive TLC. Create communication overlays and educational materials very simply - yet powerfully. Comes with 100+ templates for commonly used communication devices, and switch templates. Includes over 26,000 images - Widgit symbols and Symbolstix. Regular free updates.

Pogo Boards by Talk To Me Technologies. Online, easy-to-use tool to create custom symbol-based communication boards and
other learning materials. 20,000+ unique picture symbols
(Symbolstix, AbleNet Symbols, PiCS and more). Integrated
Google image searching. Includes many different templates for communication devices and activities. Thousands of boards, therapy materials, activities are available within the Global Community folders. Use Pogo Boards anywhere, anytime with no need to keep track of discs.

Pogo Boards cannot be purchased online. Please contact LAB Resources to place order.

Phone: 888-504-7106 or 262-691-3476
Fax: 262-695-2504

Symbolstix Online by News-2-You. New! Dynamic online symbol set will be available this fall. Symbolstix is a collection of 4000+ symbols organized in categories that can be used when creating materials for students to help students understand text
and improve literacy. Activities, items and person are depicted as lively, vibrant stick figures with “an attitude”. Symbolstix is continually updated with current event symbols, such as symbols that depict the people and events in the news. Actual persons incorporated in Symbolstix are drawn as easily recognizable characterizations. Symbolstix is not a drawing program.

Hannah's Discovery by: Linda Andersen. Designed to give teenagers who use augmentative communication devices a heroine. Hannah solves the school mystery of who stole the money that the choir saved to go to Florida and makes a friend at the same time. Appropriate for pre-teens and teens. $9.95

Check out Activities to Share section of our website to download our free electronic version of Hannah's Discovery.

Go Talk Software by Attainment Co. Includes templates for Go Talk 9+, Go Talk 4+, Go Talk 20+, Go Talk Pocket, One by Four Talker and the Personal Talker. Also includes over 1000 photos and illustrations and 3000 Imagine Symbols. Overlay cells can contain an image, text or both. Windows Only.