Books and Presentations- have interactive or print books, topic boards templates you can create to go along with stories, and books you can create with symbolated text.There are many different categories of templates but the most relevant ones for speech therapy and special education are:
Templatesīe sure to check out the premade templates to save time! You can easily tweak these boards to fit your students’ needs. Another idea is to turn off the images for target words to make sure the students are reading the word and not relying on the picture. You can customize it for your students’ needs. From the dropdown menu under Symbolate, select if you want all, nouns, verbs, adjectives, content words, etc. Click on Properties on the vertical toolbar and double click on Symbolate. You’re given the option to select which words you want to have a symbol. Simply click on Symbolate and start writing. This allows you to make awesome pre-literacy activities very quickly! The Symbolate button is found in the toolbar that runs horizontally across the top of the screen at all times. It’s similar to Mayer Johnson’s Writing with Symbols, if you’re familiar with that software. This feature allows you to write sentences and adds in picture symbols for you. Here is a quick roundup of some of the best features I’ve found for working with students who have autism or related disabilities. When you open up a new project, you can find Gadgets on the toolbar on the left side of the page, under Symbols. The gadgets are cool features you can add to your standard buttons to make them perform all sorts of fancy actions.
Buttons can be given actions so that they will make sound or move. I’ve made some really fun interactive activities that my students love! Along with making icons and visuals, you’re given the option to use all sorts of cool features in Gadgets. It is designed to be interactive, so everything has a function. These big changes may feel intimidating- I know I was! Once you get over how jarringly different the layout is, you start to appreciate how much it can actually do. Creating a new project is very different from starting a new board. One of the biggest changes is simply navigating the screen. The new version of Boardmaker Studio is a big change from the previous Speaking Dynamically Pro.
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