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...
Super Core 50
Super Core is an easy-to-use core vocabulary designed to help early AAC users experience success with symbol communication. It combines a consistent core vocabulary with context specific language, focusing on daily routines and play activities to...
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
This grid set is designed to demonstrate how Grid can be used to support learners who need support through scheduling and sequencing. This is a sample grid set.
switch timer
A Grid designed to provide practice for switch scanning whilst providing opportunity to change the scan time. This Grid will need facilitation as only certain cells are scannable. I made this to help someone find a suitable scan time and to provide...
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...
Symbol Talker D
Symbol Talker D offers four columns of core vocabulary, with topic grids that expand across the page to give access to a wide range of topic words. The grid set also introduces symbolised prediction cells to allow more sentences to be built from the...
Symbol Visual Schedule Template
An example template for creating a visual schedule / timetable, following the research-based SCERTS model for working with individuals with autism. For more information about SCERTS go to scerts.com.