| BoardMaker: Boardmaker is a graphics database containing over 3,000 Picture Communication Symbols in bitmapped clip art form. BoardMaker allows you to:
- Make a professional looking communication display in minutes.
- Quickly find and paste pictures into your display with a mouse click.
- Make the pictures any size and with any spacing.
- Print and/or save your display on disk for later use.
- Print displays in black & white or color (if you have a color printer).
- Store, name, retrieve, resize, and paste scanned or custom-drawn pictures.
- Make worksheets, picture instruction sheets, reading books, journals, or posters.
- Symbols can be translated into 10 languages and may be found and printed in any of the languages.
Languages for the Mac include: English, Spanish, French, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch.Languages for Windows include: English (US), English (UK), Spanish, French, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Catalan, Russian, Turkish,Vietnamese (Hmong), Finnish, and Hungarian. Includes:
- 3,000 Picture Communication Symbols from Books I, II, and III.
- A set of black and white symbols and a set of color symbols.
- A drawing program.
- Assorted premade blank grids for making communication boards or overlays.
- A Boardmaker manual and Picture Index.
- A video showing you how to use Boardmaker.
Speaking Dynamically Pro: Speaking Dynamically Pro is a powerful speech output communication program. It allows you to use your Macintosh or Windows computer as a communication device. The customized dynamic screens allow for outstanding versatility and efficiency.Speaking Dynamically Pro is designed to make it easy to customize communication boards for the individual. Make new ones from scratch or customize the over 90 ready-made sample boards included with the program. Buttons on the screens may be set to speak, change screens, type messages, or many other actions. Nonreaders may use pictures or readers may use text. Speaking Dynamically Pro is used as:
- A communication program for individuals who need a voice.
- An interactive tool for inclusion of special needs students in regular classes.
- A training program for learning communication and language skills.
- An educational tool to encourage literacy.
- An aid for individuals suffering from repetitive voice overuse in the workplace.
Features:
- Text to speech (MacinTalk included)
- Recorded (digitized) speech
- Pictures, photos, or text on buttons
- Sentence building with pictures or text
- Sound effects
- Link boards
- Flexible scanning layouts
- Auditory scanning
- QuickTime® movies
- Buttons to launch other programs
- Easy graphics handling including auto resize, more painting tools, a paint bucket, flip/rotate abilities, and colored backgrounds (looks like Boardmaker).
- Pop-up boards
- Button magnification for low-vision
- Board-change indicators
- Random response
- Access improvements for scanning and touchscreens.
- Invisible buttons (use with photos)
- Environmental control (X-10)
- Can be accessed by Mouse, Touchscreen,
Joystick, Trackball, Head-pointing device, or Alternate keyboard
Word Processing Features:
- Word prediction with customizable dictionaries.
- Abbreviation expansion.
- combined picture and message display.
- Special text buttons that make it easy to set up and save conversations.
- Setups which allow a switch user to easily open and save message files without dealing with system software.
Please Note: Boardmaker can not be shipped outside of the United States. |