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  • A trial subscription of Boardmaker Online includes full access to creating, assigning, printing, and playing activities online. You'll also get access to Boardmaker Instructional Solutions. To get detailed instructions along with screen shots on how to setup a trial subscription, click here.
  • Connect with over 500,000 members of the Boardmaker Community, including educators, parents and Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs). Access over 90,000 free pre-made materials to share, use and store.

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Follow us on Pinterest where we update our collection of links to free downloadable healthcare communication boards and social stories, including some for COVID patients. Here are some highlights:

Picture Stories about Living with Coronavirus
Health Communication Aids for COVID19 Patients
Emergency First Responder Communication Aids
Healthcare Communication Passports


Featured Resource: Autism Housing Pathways

How do I Find a list of useful links, showing techniques for performing basic living skills. Some are descriptions with pictures, others are videos.

Visual supports for 11 basic self-care and household activities. Small fee applies.

Hygiene and cleaning schedule, and how-to guide This basic checklist, put together by AHP, can be used by individuals to maintain basic hygiene, and a clean kitchen and bath. It includes a list of basic supplies. It may be useful to individuals, families, and property managers.

Functional Planning System An app that illustrates the user's entire day and prompt them through the completion of daily activities with step-by-step videos. Fees apply.

Everyday Life Tutorials Free online games help you practice cooking, money, employment, and other daily living skills.

Six helpful apps for cleaning your disgusting house These apps let you schedule and organize household chores, and send helpful reminders.

8 Great Apps for Daily Living Lots of variety here: everything from a picture scheduler and a shopping list generator to a med scheduler and an OCD symptom manager.

Health Care Communication Resources

MGH Autism Care Plan Communicates Needs in Acute Care Settings

Dentist Visit Visual Schedule PDF (b&w) See also: Dentist Visit Support Kit

Easy on the I - free health-related symbols

Boardmaker Free Online

Innovative Speech Therapy from Joan Green – login required

Patient Provider Communications -free multi-language boards to download

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A Picture of Health (UK) - symbol supported stories (PDFs) about health care situations

Widget Health (UK)

Boardmaker free icons

About Me Book Templates

All About Me: The Story of Your Life – book on Amazon

Life Story Works – created by social workers

Free Picture Symbol Sets

Symbol Set Comparison - Which symbol set is right for your user?

ARASSAC symbols – in Spanish

Easy on the I - free health-related symbols

Global Symbols - Provides free global symbols and training

LessonPix – school related picture symbols

Open Symbols - A collection of open-licenses picture symbols that can be used for augmentative communications,

Mulberry Symbols – 3,500 symbols, from the UK

Picture Symbol Resources – Over 200 free pre-made picture symbol supports

Picto-Selector – free picture symbols in many languages

SENTEACHER – free pictures and printable boards

Visuals Engine free board layouts and pictures

Participics - free pictographs from Aphasia.ca Toronto

Visual Recipe Resources

Cooking with Core – recipes with language instruction

Look, cook, and eat An online magazine featuring new picture recipes and helpful videos. $30 year/subscription.

Links to Visual Recipes – Free picture symbol recipes

Communication Boards and More!

Axcis Home Communication Book - UK

Amy Speech & Language Therapy – free communication boards for adults & kids

Comix Stories - Free comic strip generator that's great for creating scripts to teach communication, behavior, social skills and more.

Boardmaker Share - Mayer-Johnson's board sharing/community site, must have Boardmaker to use the files

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs Blog – free board, activities and tutorials

do2Learn.com – free picture cards for self-help, activities, home and school, social, safety and calendar

Independent Living Center WA – free adult communication boards, must have Boardmaker

SpeakingofSpeech.com – free picture communication boards

SymbolWorld.org – free picture-supported stories and recipes

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A complete system for delivering personalised instruction and therapy for students with special needs

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One Complete System – Unlimited Possibilities!

Create and edit online – no CD or installation required…
Print from anywhere…
Play activities on iPad, PC or Mac…


What's New with Boardmaker Online


Tobii Dynavox Single Sign-On Tutorial for Boardmaker Online Members (more in the videos section below)


For more than 25 years, Boardmaker has been the go-to solution for providing symbol-based learning materials to students with special needs. Boardmaker Online is a complete system for delivering personalised instruction and therapy while also measuring student progress.

“Being able to assign students to tasks is great, all easy to see at a quick glance, in one convenient place.” – Anna B.

“I’ve been waiting for something like this. I think it’s great.” – Maureen C.

“I love that I can print straight from the site, really handy and saves time!” – Karie M.

“It is very quick and easy to add students. This is a big plus!” – Pam M.

“I like that this could be an assignment that you could assign to multiple students to work on and get individual feedback on their work.” – Jeanne H.

“It’s fantastic that teachers can customise the individual accessibility options for each student!” – Keyanna W.

Boardmaker Online features not to miss!

Create and Edit Activities Online

It’s time to ditch the CD! With the Online Editor, you can do it all online from any computer. With a library of over 30,000 symbols (PCS) to choose from, plus new ones added every two weeks, the possibilities are endless. Need more? Use the web search option to bring any media files into your project.

No need to install anything!

Print and Play

Print your own activities, or any you find on the Boardmaker Community, right from their web browser. Adjust accessibility options for each student. Looking to increase engagement? Encourage your team to try the included interactive templates and activities. Students can easily play activities from a web browser on any computer or through the free, fully accessible Student Center iPad app with no internet connection necessary.

Find and Share

Why spend valuable time recreating the wheel? Boardmaker Online subscribers can choose from over 60,000 FREE ready-made print and interactive activities across 1,100 categorised public groups in the Boardmaker Community – the largest sharing community of its kind in the world. They can also upload activities they’ve created to their Boardmaker Online Community account and share them across their school, organisation, district, with parents, therapists or others on their students’ support team.

Teach and Extend

Give your staff access to three robust, standards-aligned curriculum programs, all included with your Boardmaker Online District Subscription. Boardmaker Instructional Solutions comes with over 140 step-by-step lesson plans, more than 1500 differentiated and standards-aligned activities, 300+ printable and accessible books, classroom management tools quizzes, games, recipes, crafts, and more!

Assign and Track

With a Boardmaker Online District (Organisation) Account, staff can assign customised and levelled activities for an unlimited number of students to track their individual progress against their IEP goals and state and local standards. They can then use Boardmaker Online Progress Monitoring tool to quickly reference their students’ performance and report easily on their success. Assigned activities completed at home are also tracked so they can effectively manage homework and partner with the child’s family to extend learning beyond the classroom.


Choose the plan that’s right for you!

Boardmaker Online District is one system to manage your school, district / organisation, or Special Education Centre.

Who Can Benefit?

SLPs, Special Ed teachers, Inclusion Teachers, Early Education staff, Administrators, and more

This plan would suit a district or organisation with many (5+) instructors, creating and assigning activities to many students.

Case Example: East Waterford School District is home to 4,700 students. About 450 of those students have IEPs and most of them are included in general education classrooms. Boardmaker Online is used on a daily basis by 24 teachers and 8 SLPs for creating printed activities for the classroom like traditional Boardmaker, but also used to create and assign exciting onscreen activities. Teachers and therapist can collaborate to ensure that each student’s special learning needs are met. Parents like that their children are getting homework they can complete at home on a computer or iPad. One complete system with unlimited possibilities.

Top 6 Reasons to Subscribe to Boardmaker Online District:

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  1. Cloud-based system provides consistency and collaboration across entire district and allows staff to work from anywhere, and by sharing students’ results between instructors
  2. Help teachers save time with private district-wide activity sharing
  3. Extensive library of sample activities already aligned to US Common Core standards
  4. Students can access instructional activities from any computer or iPad- at school, at home, or anywhere!
  5. Activities can be associated with IEP goals to demonstrate student achievement
  6. Immediate access to student performance data and staff usage, all from one system

“I love this program! It looks like it would be so beneficial to the teachers who are in the classroom with children and their support staff.” – Kathy H., School Administrator

“I must say the idea that you can print and play activities without having an install or disc to worry about is amazing. Especially for an AT centre that oversees 160 schools in a district. I like that idea.” – Jim, AT Specialist

“I really, really like the way the student center looks and the control I have over my student’s assigned tasks. Also, I think it’s great the way it keeps track on my student’s score for activities that have right/wrong answers!” – Marcel, Autism Specialist


Advantages

Cost savings

  • Exclusive customised district packages for 5+ accounts
  • Cloud-based services allow for easy reassignment of licences as staff transition
  • Volume pricing
  • Multi-product bundles
  • Multi-year savings

Success for all

  • Research-based and ready-made activities ensure positive, measurable outcomes
  • Following the principals of Universal Design for Learning, the Adapted Educational Materials and activities make learning goals achievable by individuals with various abilities
  • Adapted curricula provide equal access for all
  • Resources available to encapsulate expert best practices ensuring that you get the most out of your solutions

Supports standards and requirements

  • Solutions designed specifically to teach and measure progress towards college and career readiness standards
  • Wide array of solutions that support Universal Design for Learning
  • Track and report on progress towards Individual Education Plan goals automatically through data dashboards

Easy district (school/organisation) deployment

  • Empowers administrators to deliver and deploy accounts remotely and within seconds
  • Flexible and scalable district deployment options
  • All cloud-based solutions are hosted in a highly secured Tier 1 data centre
  • Free automatic cloud-based updates with new and exciting features and resources

The Boardmaker Community is where more than 200,000 board makers come to search for and share over 60,000 free symbol-adapted learning activities… all for FREE!

Who Can Benefit?

Boardmaker Users

Top 5 reasons to sign up for Boardmaker Community!

  1. You own existing Boardmaker software
  2. Share great activities that you have created
  3. Use powerful search features to find exactly what you need
  4. Find activities professionally created by the Boardmaker Education Team
  5. Search for activities aligned to Common Core standards
  6. Join groups that are specific to your interests

Boardmaker Instructional Solutions/Curricula Add-ons

NEW! Boardmaker Instructional Solutions/Curricula are now included FREE with a Boardmaker Online subscription

These are maths and English language arts (ELA) curricula designed for teachers of students with special needs.

Boardmaker Expedition Education is a year-long reading, writing and thinking program for special needs students in grades three and up. Boardmaker Book Bridge is a reading, writing and vocabulary development program designed to help special needs students meet academic standards through grade-level literature.
Boardmaker Core First Learning is a web-based program that helps your students learn the meaning, use, and placement of high frequency core words on their AAC system.

When combined, Boardmaker Online and Boardmaker Instructional Solutions give each student, regardless of ability, access to the same rigorous content as their peers, and allows them to complete activities at a level that is aligned to their strengths and needs.

Q. Is the sharing Community still free?

Yes! You can still join the Boardmaker Community for free and upload, share, find, download, and do all the things you always could. The only difference is that now you can upgrade your free membership to add all the wonderful new features to your existing account!

Q. How is Boardmaker Online different from other Boardmaker Software Family products?

Boardmaker Online is a web-based subscription service, and unlike previous products it does not need to be installed or even downloaded. It can be used to…

  • Create and Edit activities on any Windows or Mac computer… nothing to install
  • Assign activities to students
  • Play activities from a web browser or on the iPad
  • Track performance and usage data
  • Track progress towards IEP goals (Professional and higher) and educational standards
  • Access massive collection of Common Core premade and sample activities

Q. Can I still create new activities?

Yes! With the Online Editor, you will no longer need special software installed on your computer. Simply login to your account and select “Create Activity” and either start from scratch or start from one of hundreds of included print and interactive activity templates. Filling in those templates is as simple as click and type!

Q. Can activities be played on an iPad?

Yes! This is one of the most exciting aspects of Boardmaker Online! Included with your subscription is the Boardmaker Online Student Center App which you can download for free from the iTunes app store. A student with a Boardmaker Online login can see the activities assigned to them and play them on the iPad with full accessibility options available.

Q. Will I have to buy symbol addendums?

No! Boardmaker Online will include all 30,000 PCS symbols. And guess what else? When new symbols are created they will just appear in your Boardmaker Online account!

Q. Can I still use my old Boardmaker CDs?

Sure! You can still use your current version of Boardmaker software to create activities and upload them to your Boardmaker Online account. Once they are uploaded, you can print them or play them from anywhere, assign them to students, play them on the iPad and much more.

Note that once you have edited an activity in the Boardmaker Online Editor, that activity cannot be downloaded and opened with Boardmaker v6.

Q. If I just want to make print activities, can I still do that?

Next to every Print activity on the site you will see a Print button allowing you to print directly from the website. You can create a new print activity from scratch or from a template and print them out from anywhere. You can edit all your old Boardmaker boards, and we’ve even included all the digitised device templates for making device overlays.

Q. Are there training options available?

Yes! Our Boardmaker Education Specialists offer FREE, live online trainings every Tuesday and Thursday. The trainings are also recorded in case you are unable to attend the live one. View the training schedule here.

Q. Can I trial Boardmaker Online?

Yes! Sign up for free


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Boardmaker Online is targeted at the following age ranges:

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  • Early Primary
  • Mid Primary
  • Upper Primary

Boardmaker Online is designed to foster development in the areas of:

  • Early concepts
  • Literacy
  • Switch use
  • Communication
  • Numeracy
  • Resource preparation
  • Science
  • SOSE
  • Cause-and-effect
  • Switch timing
  • Choosing with a switch
  • Mouse or touchscreen use

Users can access Boardmaker Online in the following ways:

  • Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
  • Keyboard
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