Education
For use in schools
Story - Describing Character & Setting
A simple grid to support pupils to describe their characters and setting as part of developing story writing skills. Vocabulary can be edited in edit mode.
Story - Ideas Generator
This grid set is designed to provide random prompts for story ideas focusing on character, setting, time, props and plot. Ideas are generated at random.
Story - Sequencing
This grid set is designed to demonstrate using grid 3 to sequence events in a story. the activities show both errorless and free choice sequencing.
Story - Super Sentences
A Simple grid set created to allow the user to practice writing similes and using powerful adjectives to improve their writing. This grid uses activation order to indicate which part of the sentence should be selected.
Story Books
There are two books in this user, kindly donated by Scope and www.childreninthepicture.org.uk and www.cogain.org
Story Builder
This is a fun and basic grid set for creating a really simple story. Each page on the grid offers choices to build up a fun story.
Story Grid
This grid set is for telling stories. There are four stories, about a king, an old man, a robot and a burglar. You can tell the stories as they are meant to be told, or you can mix them up to make your own crazy story.
Story Grid for Eye Gaze
A version of Barney and James's brilliant story telling grid set, suitable for eye gaze with a rest cell on each page. This grid set is for telling stories. There are four stories, about a king, an old man, a robot and a burglar. You can...
Story Grid for switches
A version of Barney and James's brilliant story telling grid set, suitable for switches with cells arranged in a row along the bottom on each page. This grid set is for telling stories. There are four stories, about a king, an old man, a robot...
Story Template Auditory Scanning
This story template grid set is based loosely on the EISLT Story Template Grids on here. It was originally set up for one of our students with no functional vision who was able to use the 'spacebar' as a switch to scan through the choices but it...
Story with Sounds - My Mixed Up Morning
A grid set made up of a short story with sound effects called my mixed up morning. The user can work through the story playing the words and the sound effects at their own pace. The transcript is also included incase a facilitator wants to make it...
Supported Sentence writing
This grid set is meant as a template grid set. You can clone this grid set and create your own sentence writing activities. If you have any questions about this grid set please do drop me an email gemma@smartboxat.com
Supports
A collection of sample supports demonstrating how The Grid 2 can be used with individuals needing day to day support with scheduling and sequencing routines.
Symbol Finder
Symbol finder allows you to search the dictionary for a symbol and display it in an audible flash card. To enlarge the chosen symbol please select the blue arrow underneath it.
Symbol Links 40
A 40 cell density core vocabulary based communication system that provides for semantically based sentence formulation and generative speech. Symbol Talker communication systems also include a sentence window for user feedback to help with sentence...
Symbol Links 48
A 48 cell density core vocabulary based communication system that provides for semantically based sentence formulation and generative speech. Symbol Talker communication systems also include a sentence window for user feedback to help with sentence...
Symbol Talker A
Symbol Talker is a complete vocabulary package for someone who wishes to use symbols to talk. It has pages to prompt opinions, as well as pages for School, Home and Therapy use.
Symbol Talker A
Symbol Talker is a complete vocabulary package for someone who wishes to use symbols to talk. It has pages to prompt opinions, as well as pages for School, Home and Therapy use.
Symbol Talker B
Symbol Talker is a complete vocabulary package for someone who wishes to use symbols to talk. It has pages to prompt opinions, as well as pages for School, Home and Therapy use.
Symbol Talker B - news telling for touch access
Symbol Talker is a complete vocabulary package for someone who wishes to use symbols to talk. It has pages to prompt opinions, as well as pages for School, Home and Therapy use. Optimised for touch access. No Rest cells, sentence starters from Grid...
Symbol Talker C
Symbol Talker C provides a transition for people that have successfully communicated with a topic based vocabulary and are ready to use more language tools to say more. Core vocabulary is the name given to the words we speak most often. In Symbol...
Symbol Talker D
Symbol Talker D promotes core vocabulary on the home page. This means you can generate novel sentences very quickly and you only need to visit topic pages to find less common words such as nouns. The smart grammar tools in Grid 3 help you generate...
Synthetic Keyboard
Phonics for All - Synthetic Phonic Keyboard. This keyboard grid set enables the student to practice with a keyboard that has sounds rather than letter names embedded in it. Please download all 11 Phonics for All grid sets.
T9 Keyboard Eye Tracking
Similar to cell phones, the T9 keyboard offers fast word generation while using only a few cells. For example, a single cell represents several different letters and as the user makes selections, the software intelligently sorts through the...
Talk Together for G3 Stage 1 (Widgit)
A version of the Grid 2 Talk Together stage 1 grid set. Simplified for the moment, it does not currently include the useful tips pages that are available on each page of the orignial Grid 2 version. The multilevel page sets place the emphasis on...
Talking Mat
You can do so much more with Grid 3 Grid set to enable Talking mats to be used by users with alternative access; switch, eye gaze, head pointer, etc. Talking Mats are a fantastic resource for the user to give their opinion on the chosen...
Talking mat adapted by Jo
I adapted this Talking Mats Grid so that a student could use it themselves. Just adjust the wordlist on the option page.