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2006.12.20
In this reusable activity, the early learner sorts pictures into the category of food or clothes. Created in Boadmaker by Linda Calliou.
2006.12.20
In this reusable activity, the early learner sorts pictures into the category of food, clothes , animals or toys. Created in Boadmaker by Linda Calliou.
2005.02.16
This is an animal matching game that requires the child to match pictures. Use the activity as a whole, “Show me…” “Point to…” or cut up to play concentration or Go Fish.
2007.01.09
Song boards in big book format with Mayer-Johnson picture communication symbols to match common primary songs and rhymes. Song titles include: 5 Little Ducks, 5 Green and Speckled Frogs, Baby Beluga, Baby Bumblebee, Bingo, Calendar Songs, Christmas Songs, Found A Peanut, Kumbaya, I am a Pizza, I've Been Working on the Railroad, I want to Be a Dog, O Canada, Oh Suzanna, Old MacDonald, On Top of Spaghetti, She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain, Wheels on the Bus, The Ants Come Marching. Created by Tara Bell Surrey School District.
2005.02.16
Boardmaker templates for creating bingo 9 square boards and bingo cards
2009.09.08
A Boardmaker Activity Pad for playing the Guess Who? Board Game in a 5x4 layout. The Boardmaker Activity Pad by Mayer-Johnson /Dynavox is a portable device using activity smart pads. Created by Elaine Proska. Game Activities.
2009.09.08
A Boardmaker Activity Pad for playing Mr. Potato Head in a 3x4 layout. The Boardmaker Activity Pad by Mayer-Johnson /Dynavox is a portable device using activity smart pads. Created by Elaine Proska. Game Activities.
2005.02.16
Bingo board games with cards for support in identifying body parts. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability.
2007.05.04
Bingo board games with cards to assist in identifying Canuck hockey players . Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability. [sports] Game Activities.
2008.10.17
This activity is a deck of playing cards designed to give students a fun and meaningful way to practice combing number and color concepts. (Numbers 1-10) ( Colours- red, blue , yellow, green). Card games usually have a predictable set of communicative messages making them an ideal vehicle for practicing communication either with an AAC system or in a typical voice. Using a favourite subject matter such as cars can make the game more motivating and meaningful for the student. Created by Yvonne Green.
2006.11.28
The Christmas book contains 41 pages and comes in sentence or PCS format wih a cover page in PDF format. Print out the pages of the book, print and laminate the PCS symbols and/ or the sentence strips.Have the student match the sentence or the PCS symbol to the page in the book.
2006.11.28
Christmas Rummy cards to assist in identifying Christmas vocabulary. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability. game activity.
2005.02.16
Bingo board games with cards to assist in identifying clothing, Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability.
2005.02.16
Bingo board games with cards to assist in identifying colours. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability.
2005.02.16
Bingo board games with cards to assist in identifying fall vocabulary including Thanksgiving . Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability. [Weather, seasons]
2009.06.03
Bingo game created in MSWord. Theme is food with public domain images from Google Images. Included are 5 Bingo cards and a call out sheet. Created by Jennifer Dulaney.
2005.02.16
Match the proper item to the corresponding season of the year. Classroom activity to reinforce the association of climate and related activities. [Weather, seasons]
2005.02.16
Activity based communication boards can be development to promote activity-specific language development. Boards can be made for any activity that is consistent in the student’s environment (e.g.: self-care, games, teaching new concepts, school jobs etc.). Activity boards included are: Big Little, Colours, Emotions, Go Fish, and Go Fish Prepositions. Game Activities.
2007.01.05
This is a set of vocabulary commonly used in gardening. It could be used as part of a gardening unit, or with a gardening toy. There is one page of PCS Symbols and one page with photographs from the Picture-It set from Mayer-Johnson, and some are photos of an actual gardening toy. [spring, seasons] Created by Karen Neill. Game Activities.
2010.10.27
Boardmaker cards to use in games such as Go Fish and Snap. Cards ( folders) included areon Christmas, Food and Wild Animals. Instructions on how to play Snap are included in a pdf downloaded from the CALL Centre. -Print out one copy of each board on letter size paper. -Laminate each board -Cut up each board to make the cards Put in a zip lock bag to keep all the pieces together. Created by Carol Graham
2008.10.01
Use lotto game board to categorize groceries by food groups (includes condiments). Print extra boards to cut as cards for matching, sorting, and memory games. Created by Maureen LaFleche.
2009.06.22
Visuals to support playing Guess Who Board Game. Created by Sharon O'Dornan. Game Activities.
2008.10.01
See the Guess Who Activity instructions. This game can be played at school or at camp. Print out card stock of entire group of campers or students with various accessories template. and use the template provided to ask questions. Created by Yvonne Green. Game Activities.
2007.09.10
A visual support to use while playing the game Guess Who? Created by Yvonne Green. Game Activities.
2007.09.10
A visual support created in Bardmaker to use while playing the game I Spy With My Little Eye. Created by Yvonne Green. Game Activities.
2005.02.16
A knock knock joke template for the MessageMate and an accompanying document file with explanation on use and some jokes. Game Activities.
2005.04.20
Lotto games. Category boards included are: clothes, colours, garden tools, home, kitchen, school, seasons, tools and weather. Print extra boards to cut as cards for matching. Using the Microsoft version students can match the pictures to the lotto board by clicking and dragging. Created by Pat Winram. Game Activities.
2009.06.22
Visual supports for the activty Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. There are four different boards containing 4 symbols, 12 symbols, 24 symbols, and 30 symbols increasing in vocabulary and conversation. Created by Pam Davis. Game Activities.
2005.02.16
Activity board using Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols based on vocabulary used when playing Mr. Potato Head game. Created by Yvonne Green. Game Activities.
2006.01.31
Pet food activity matching animal to food. ( dog, cat, fish, bird) Print and laminate. Cut pet food strips, add velcro to create sentences on main board. Created by Yvonne Green
2005.02.16
Song boards with Mayer-Johnson picture communication symbols to match common primary songs and rhymes. Download Primary Songs Readme PDF. Songs are zipped in 5 folders, download all to have the whole collection. Song titles include: 10 in a bed, Baba Black Sheep, Bear Went over the Mountain, Bingo, Do Your Ears hang low?, 5 Little Ducks, Eensy Weensy Spider, Bingo, Head and Shoulders, Humpty Dumpty, Hickory Dickory Dock, I Wanna Ride, If You're Happy, I'm a Little Tea Pot, I't s Raining It's Pouring, Jingle Bells, Miss Polly, Old MacDonald, On Top of Sphagetti, Row Your Boat, Tickle My Nose , Take me For a Ride, Telephone Song, This Old Man, Tony Chestnut, Twinkle Twinkle, We Wish you a Merry Christmas, Wheels on the Bus. Created by Yvonne Green.
2005.02.23
Song boards with Mayer-Johnson picture communication symbols. Songs of routine suggest ways to put words to daily routine work tasks. Some of the song topics are about dressing, cleanup, brush your teeth, what do you want to eat/ wear, here we are together. Songs are zipped in 2 folders, download all to have the whole collection. Created by Yvonne Green.
2005.02.23
Card game activity matching numbers from 1 to 20 with number cards, word cards and picture cards. Print and cut out cards and strips of pictures; laminate for durability.( in pdf format only)
2005.11.01
A scavenger hunt - listen for sounds -including a listen board, instructions and sample , vocabulary to use for the scavenger hunt, and a found pocket to store symbols of heard items if you decide to cut the scavenger hunt board into sentence strips. Could be used with other vocabulary to create a scavenger hunt for almost any environment. game activity.
2005.11.01
A scavenger hunt including a find board, instructions and sample , vocabulary to use for an outside scavenger hunt, and a found pocket to store symbols of found items if you decide to cut the scavenger hunt board into sentence strips. Could be used with other vocabulary to create a scavenger hunt for almost any environment. game activity.
2005.02.23
Bingo board games with cards to assist in identifying school vocabulary. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability.
2008.05.23
This overlay was created for a student learning to use language associated with the game of Hide and Seek. It also helps reinforce number concepts and counting 1-10, turn taking, and using laguage in an interactive and meaningful context. Created by Diane Point, Renee Stogan and Ben Parry. Game Activities.
2009.09.04
Visuals (10 Boards or pages included) for learning how to play the Snakes and Ladders Board Game. Created by Wendy Martin. Game Activities.
2005.02.23
Sorting game using cards to discriminatie among the basic concepts of size, colour, and shape. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of game cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability.
2005.02.23
Bingo board ( these boards have 16 squares) games with cards to assist in identifying spring vocabulary. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability. [Weather, seasons]
2005.02.23
Bingo board games with cards to assist in identifying summer vocabulary. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability. [Weather, seasons]
2009.06.22
Visual for a TechTalk32 to support playing the card game Uno. Created by Elaine Proska. Game Activities.
2007.01.17
Who where questions with visual board supports . This acivity includes 3 boardmaker boards that can be printed on card stock. The first board has a number of locations to use with the who- where strips which can be cut out and inserted behind the windows of the locaton board. Example; The teacher asks "Where are the bears?" the student then opens the windows until the bears are found or "Who is in the tree house?" See description included with file. Created by Yvonne Green.
2005.02.23
Bingo board games with cards to assist in identifying winter vocabulary. Print duplicate or triplicate copies of bingo cards to play “ Go Fish” or “Rummy”. Laminate for durability. [Weather, seasons]
2005.02.23
Lotto games for practicing word recognition with Picture Communication Symbols (PCS). The match can be symbol to symbol, word to word, symbol and word, or word to symbol. Category boards included are: feelings, actions, people, opposites, colours, animals, body parts, insects, and clothes.
2006.11.28
A story preparing students for the coming Christmas Holidays. Created by Daphne Mercier. Please see The Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding at http://www.thegraycenter.org/ for Carol Gray's guidelines and criteria for social stories. To view some Sample Social Stories go to: http://www.thegraycenter.org/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&page_id=20
2006.10.18
5 Little Monsters Poem based on the song 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. [Halloween, seasons]
2009.12.18
This is a collection of suggested "spinner" activities and templates for creating activities as an AAC participation strategy. The student must spin the spinner and receive or do whatever the arrow lands on. A variation of this might be when the spinner lands on an item, the teacher then asks a yes/no question. For example- Weather spinner lands on "Raining" .... Is it raining today? Yes/No. The template does not fit the AbleNet All Turn It Spinner device but can still be useful for modeling the ideas. Created by Yvonne Green. All-Turn-It Spinner Ideas document created by Lorraine Kamp.
2005.04.06
A collection of animals vocabulary (includes birds, farm, marine, wild, insects, domestic, zoo) in PCS symbols in varying sizes for different classroom activities and varying visual needs. (1 inch, 2 inch, 3 inch)
2006.11.28
A vocabulary page of PCS symbols to describe Christmas objects (ie. shiny, green, glitter).
2006.11.28
A collection of Christmas vocabulary in PCS symbols, , in 1 inch, 2 inch, 3 inch size so they can be used in a variety of ways to support communication, to improve understanding, and to help students make choices and requests.
2005.02.14
A collection of fall holiday vocabulary with the Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols in varying sizes for different classroom activities and varying visual needs. (1 inch, 2 inch, 3 inch) [seasons]
2006.10.19
Kindergarten Vocabulary in PCS two inch size by Gail Guptil. Revision of kindergarten vocabulary originally created and gathered by Lorraine Kamp and Jeanine Piper, Surrey School District. Includes “stop” and “go” visual prompts (these symbols only are a full page).
2010.04.28
This collection of early primary classroom songs is an extension of an earlier collection. It is larger and intended for group use. Each song is created to be printed on 6 or less pieces of 8 x 11 cardstock paper and then put together to make one large song display. These song displays are based on the work of Carol Goosens “Aided Language Stimulation Approach.” Songs included are: I Wanna Ride, If You're Happy, Old MacDonald, Slippery Fish, Tickle My Nose, and Wheels on the Bus. These particular songs were enlarged to be used in a segregated classroom for primary students with autism. Also, enclosed is a Large Songs Display Readme file. Created by Yvonne Green.
2006.10.18
On Halloween was written to develop early literacy skills, Halloween vocabulary, guessing skills and the interactive use of voice output communication aids. It is recommended that when you print this Writing with Symbols book, you place each page in a page cover. This will allow for mixing of the pages and therefore true guessing when predictions are made. The final Guessing Page should be separated from the other pages for “guessing”. The single message VOCA user, can say, Ding dong, “Trick or treat!” and add, “Who’s there?” if you wish, asking the partner to make a guess from the Guessing Page. A student using a multiple message VOCA could take multiple roles in the reading or make verbal guesses from the Guessing Page. [Halloween, seasons]
2005.02.14
A collection of primary vocabulary in PCS symbols, including the symbols for activity centers, in 1 1/2 inch size so they can be used in a variety of ways to support communication, to improve understanding, and to help students make choices and requests.
2005.10.31
A collection of primary vocabulary in PCS symbols, including the symbols for activity centers, in 3 inch size so they can be used in a variety of ways to support communication, to improve understanding, and to help students make choices and requests.
2005.02.14
A collection of secondary school vocabulary PCS symbols, in 2 inch size.
2006.08.14
Sort clothes by weather activity. [Weather, seasons]
2005.02.16
A collection of summer vocabulary with the Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols in one inch symbol size only for different classroom activities. [Weather, seasons]
2005.03.10
A show and tell communication template designed for the TechSpeak 32 by AMDI TechSpeak or TechTalk boards need to be cut after printing to fit the TechTalk or TechSpeak that you have. Some devices load overlays from the top and others load from the side; be sure leave room on top or side of your overlay before cutting.
2005.02.14
A board of vehicle vocabulary with the Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols which can also be used with the Primary Song Boards.