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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.
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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
Innovative Speech Therapy from Joan Green – login required
Patient Provider Communications -free multi-language boards to download
A Picture of Health (UK) - symbol supported stories (PDFs) about health care situations
Widget Health (UK)
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
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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
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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
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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
Picture communication symbols (PCS) are designed to convey a particular meaning, not just an object. Messages can be presented and generated through different types of media such as individual cards, paper charts and communication boards, computer display programs and voice output devices. Using these tools can allow an individual to express themselves with more complex types of communication and can allow them to interact easily.
The following are links to sites where symbols can be downloaded free. ***NEW*** Picto Selector Created by Martijn van der Kooij,Picto Selector, a freeware Windows application, is a software to create commuincation/schedule boardsand adapted stories. It has a searchable database of over 23000 symbols.This software also allows you to export and import custom pictures . Trainland This link leads to the trainland website’s PECS resource page. According to the websites author she is like me a parent who has been there, done that and still doing it. This site is a treasure trove of over 2,700 working links on everything autism. The PECS Page has hundreds of symbols you can download (some PCS and some photograph) as well as links to many other sites that have symbols that can be downloaded and used for communication. This site is a must see! Children with Special Needs : This site had several pages of pictures that can be downloaded printed and used to help get you started implementing the picture exchange communication system Do2Learn |
This site has black and white picture cards such as the one pictured above, to help individuals to make schedules, story strips and PECS cards. They can be printed as full-size coloring pages, in one and two-inch sizes with or without words. Printed and cut out, these can be used singly or grouped together. Blank image grids in one-inch and two-inch sizes are included for making custom drawings. A selection of blank schedule forms are provided on this site to allow for creation of customized schedule boards. (Picture cards can be cut up and attached to the blank forms.) PictureSET |
This is a large collection of downloadable visual supports that can be printed and used for receptive and expressive communication in any environment. It has a searchable database of picture communication supports for all different areas of life; school, home and community. The two photos above are pictures of materials I downloaded from this site. The mood thermometer can be used to help a child to express how they are feeling. This may help teach them to express their moods in a more socially appropriate way, to teach self regulatory behavior or to help them understand the moods of others.
The other picture shows a folder game that I printed to teach a child to categorize common items such as food and clothing. Many good ideas and examples on this site!
Boardmaker Share
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This is the “official” Boardmaker share site. Access to Boardmaker software needed to print many of these. Hundreds of topics are available.
To try Boardmaker free for 30 days, it can be downloaded from: http://www.mayer-johnson.com/downloads/trials/
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ABA Resources
Many free downloadable resources that can be used to build language and skills. Sample drills and information on Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) program are also on this sight.