My child uses BoardMaker symbols at school, how can I get/make symbol materials for home?
There are several possible ways that you can obtain BoardMaker symbols to use in the home. It would be worth talking to your speech and language therapist, as they might be able to help with symbols for home. Some Health Boards have speech and language therapy assistant who are excellent at making symbol resources in BoardMaker. They are unlikely to be able to produce large amounts of symbols but will help to update communication books and charts. One way is to buy a copy of the BoardMaker software, this is expensive as it is 199 though it comes with 3160 symbols and you can the additional BM Addendum symbols which is around 3000 additional symbols for 49. A cheaper alternative is to buy just the 3100 symbols on a CD from Crick Software at a cost of 90. This disc was created for use with Clicker 4 but you can import the symbols into any word processor or graphic package, some examples are MS Word, MS Powerpoint or MS Publisher. The symbols is like a picture or clip art and is saved in
