Boardmaker v6 For Windows

Create amazing symbol-based communication and educational materials!

Boardmaker software is the premier software among educators for creating printed symbol-based communication and educational materials. A drawing program combined with a graphics database, Boardmaker features more than 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) in both color and black-and-white, all in 44 languages. Boardmaker is the ideal tool for creating symbol-based materials such as communication displays for AAC users, worksheets and flash cards for English language learners, visual schedules and social skills stories for children with autism spectrum disorders, books and symbol-supported literacy activities for beginning and pre-readers, song and story boards for preschoolers, and general educational and functional living skills materials for special education students.

System Requirements
Windows 2000 or higher. RAM: 256MB, Free Hard Drive Space: 700MB

Price - R3,300

Version Upgrade - R1,750

Boardmaker Plus v6 For Windows

Add interactive educational activities to printed materials!
Boardmaker plus the interactivity of voice, animations and video capability!
 

Bring Boardmaker activities to life and make the computer a student learning tool with Boardmaker Plus! software. Featuring more than 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) in both color and black-and-white, all in 44 languages, Boardmaker Plus! is a drawing program combined with a graphics database that also has the ability to talk and play recorded sounds and movies. This interactive component allows users to create talking activity boards, worksheets, schedules, books, writing activities, games and more, and adapt all materials to each student.

System Requirements
Windows 2000 or higher. RAM: 256MB, Free Hard Drive Space: 700MB

 

Price - R4,400

Version Upgrade - R1,750

Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro for Windows

 

Powerful augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) software!
Create customized “talking” communication boards with Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro!

With all the features of Boardmaker AND Speaking Dynamically Pro, this powerful combination software is for power users and high-level AAC needs. Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro turns a computer into a talking word processor, a speech output device and a powerful student-learning tool.
Featuring more than 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) in both color and color, all in 44 languages, Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro is a drawing program combined with a graphics database that also has the ability to talk in human-sounding voices and play recorded sounds and movies—with the added features of word prediction and abbreviation expansion capabilities that speed text input.

System Requirements
Windows 2000 or higher. RAM: 256MB, Free Hard Drive Space: 700MB

Price - R7,200

Version Upgrade - R1,750

PCS™ Metafiles Deluxe - UK Version


A set of over 7,000 vector drawn PCS™ for use with Windows compatible machines. Each picture is a separate file with its own file name and may be imported into other programs which allow you to import pictures. This includes programs such as Clicker, PageMaker, Corel Draw, and many others. The pictures in the PCS™ Metafiles come in black and white and color and are the same as the pictures in Boardmaker® plus all of the Addendum Libraries (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004). A special set of UK symbols are also included.

Price - R2,000

PCS™ Sign Language Bundle

All three volumes of the Boardmaker® sign language symbols for a total of over 2,200 signs!

Each volume includes:

* an American Sign Language Library (ASL), a Signed Exact English library (SEE), and a combination SEE/ASL library.
* ethnic/gender selections for many symbols and two skin-tone libraries (light and dark).
* a set of the sign language libraries in metafile format. These can be used with Writing With Symbols.
* a picture index.

Price - R1,100

Make-a-Face

Design your own faces!
This entertaining library of facial features allows you to quickly and easily create personalized faces and store them with your other Boardmaker® symbols. Make a symbol for each person in the class, the characters in a story, or create one from your imagination. Anyone can be "symbolized" with this library of facial components.
Select from the following features:
* 5 skin tones
* 8 hair colors
* 170 hairstyles
* 11 face shapes
* 50 eye shapes
* 50 mouths
* plus noses, ears, necks, hats, sunglasses and more!
A picture index is included.

Price - R

Beyond Boardmaker® Vol I

Creative templates ready to customize and print!
If you're new to Boardmaker, Beyond Boardmaker will get you up and running quickly- and if you're a Boardmaker pro, you'll find fresh ideas in these templates. Quickly create worksheets, flip books, games, recipes, notes to parents, cards, reports and more with 25 templates. Completed sample activities are also included. Just customize as needed, print and use!

Price - R300

Beyond Boardmaker® - Vol. II

MORE creative templates ready to customize and print!
Beyond Boardmaker II offers 25 additional ready-to-use templates to personalize, print out and use in the classroom or home. Completed sample activities are included as well. Templates include bookmarks, flash cards, games, number and color books, choice boards, book and weather reports, a job cart, a preposition folder and more!

Price - R300

Beyond Boardmaker III

Still more of your favorite creative templates ready to customize and print!
Find 25 NEW templates and samples ready to use as they are, or customize with your own personal touches for student success. Included are a birthday poster, desk name tags, a
folding PCS ruler for practicing measuring skills, a paper karaoke activity for communication, a PCS yearbook template, a pep rally communication board, tornado drill, fire drill, earthquake drill and much more!

Price - R300

This Is The One I Want

A wildly popular group of activities!
This Is the One I Want integrates Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) into a series of entertaining but structured activities and exercise appropriate for any special-needs student. Five chapters cover food, holidays and seasons, the environment, around the house and out in the community. Print, laminate and use Velcro to make 33 activities with worksheets and communication displays. Also available as a book (see Related Products).

CD - R350

Book - R350

Schedule It! Sequence It! CD

A wealth of visual tools for structuring time!
Special-needs individuals often need help structuring their time at school, home and in the community. Schedule It! Sequence It! was developed to give teachers, parents, caregivers and therapists the information needed to create and use calendars, schedules and sequences effectively with these individuals. Available as a book and Boardmaker Add-on bundle, or the Boardmaker Add-on alone, Schedule It! Sequence It! provides templates and samples, and step-by-step instructions for creating these immensely helpful visual tools.

Book and CD - R400

Who, What & Why on CD

Help students understand and ask questions!
Seven units provide a range of activities that all help students to ask and understand "wh-" questions. The worksheets, featuring Picture Communication Symbols (PCS™), are designed to enable children with special needs ages five and older to participate in the activities. Students must make choices and comment on their choices or situations. The use of PCS™ enables teachers to demonstrate relationships between concepts, facilitates generalization of the concepts and also supports expressive output. Activities can be customized with new PCS™ or images as needed. Also available in book format (see Related Products).

CD - R350

Book - R350

Learning My ABCs

Learning the alphabet has never been easier or more fun!
Learning my ABC’s contains interactive and print materials for all 26 letters and will supplement any letter recognition goals in the curriculum. Two interactive books, My Animals ABC Book and My ABC Book, allow students to read books on the screen or print the books for off-computer learning. Additionally, there are 26 separate interactive I Spy ABCs activities, What’s Next letter lessons, ABC Matching, Beginning Letter practice, ABC typing, ABC snacks and more! Learning My ABCs is an entire file cabinet of activities in one small package!

Price - R450

Artic-U-Print


Picture Communication Symbol-based articulation curriculum!
Includes:

* Articulation Screening of all consonant sounds, blends, and vocalic /r/ in all positions.
* Probe Pages for each sound for easy baseline and periodic data collection for IEP development and progress reporting.
* Auditory/Visual Discrimination Cards of all sounds in initial and mixed positions.
* Speech Sound Posters for students' folders and display in the therapy room that picture the place, manner, and voicing features of each sound.
* Artic-U-Wear - fun, fashionable, hands-on projects for consonant speech sounds that students can wear.
* Artic-U-Play - colorful, customizable game boards for speech practice of any sound at any level.
* Sentence Level Practice Pages for reinforcement at home.
* Calc-U-Lator - a handy card for reporting a student's performance in percentages.

Price - R550

Artic-tionary


A handy book for articulation drill work!
With seventy-three alphabetically organized boards to choose from, this attractive flip book of picture symbols has boards for every letter of the alphabet. Customizable to a student’s articulation needs, Artic-tionary includes initial blends and is great for articulation drill work. Portability makes it ideal for practice at home. Assembly required. Ring clips not included.

Price - R350

Boardmaker Certificates


Emphasize the positive!
Acknowledge students’ accomplishments with fun and colorful certificates! With 40 motivational designs you can reward social behavior, listening, attitude, motor skills and much more! Print the certificates quickly from your computer, personalizing names, dates and tasks.

Price - R300

PCS™ Animations Bundle


Picture Communication Symbols in animation form!
Use these animations to help students learn the meaning of vocabulary, reinforce basic concepts such as movement, chores, grooming, communication, location, and more! Each animation is provided in .avi, .mov, and .gif formats and can be imported into programs such as Boardmaker Plus!, Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro, Communicate: In Print 2, IntelliPics Studio, Power Point, BuildAbility, My Own BookShelf, Windows Media Player, Quick Time Player, and Clicker.
Volume I Over 500 verbs!
Volume II Extend the basic animation library with over 800 verbs and prepositions!

Price - R1,700

Flip 'n Talk CD (Boardmaker displays)


Contains completed Boardmaker overlays ready to print:
* on label stock (not provided) to stick to the Flip 'n Talk vinyl strips.
* on 8.5" x 11" paper to use in the Communication Board pockets.
Note: CD requires Boardmaker

Price -

Communicating About Sexuality


Help clients effectively communicate about sexuality!
Communicating About Sexuality contains over 400 Picture Communication Symbols (English only) and 48 communication boards focusing on the expression of sexuality and the safeguarding from sexual abuse and victimization. The communication displays are samples only, and should be customized for each individual user. Communicating About Sexuality was developed in collaboration with the Speak Up Project in Toronto, Canada, a three-year project focused on safeguarding people who use augmentative and alternative communication from sexual abuse. Contains sexually explicit symbols.

Price - R200

Fun with Color


Twenty-four simple rhyming stories reinforce color recognition!
Kooky characters with funny voices entertain children in 24 stories featuring red, orange, black, brown, gray, white, yellow, green, blue, turquoise, pink and purple. With two stories for each color, one set uses a consistent story line, pictures and text where the only variable is the color and the other set uses a different story line and characters each time. The stories include symbol-supported text plus humorous illustrations on every page. Students will enjoy reading the stories over and over again! Two interactive worksheets for each color plus an 11-page coloring book are included on the CD.

Price - R350

Math Exercises for Nonreaders


Customize worksheets from the book!
Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) help nonreaders K-12 learn number recognition, basic counting skills, simple addition and subtraction, calculator skills, number matching and grocery math. The central theme stresses job training, community involvement and life skills education. Over 100 activities! Also available as a book (see Related Products).

CD - R300

Book - R300