(For the index of symbols provided in this symbol library click here). And in the meantime, a big thank-you to Linda, Gayle and Mayer-Johnson for putting this great resource together to help us to provide more appropriate communication books and tools for the students we work for! It’s going to take me a while to re-make my resources with these new symbols – but I am slowly working my way through that task as I have seen this year what a critical difference these symbols can make for many students. These symbols help us to meet both of the above needs, and it is then up to us to put the other recommended strategies in place – such as good positioning, being consistent in our language (and our aided language stimulation) and giving the child time to respond, plus others (see the great fact sheet from California Deaf-Blind Services.) Yellow and red are possibly easier to see and can be used to outline numbers, letters, or pictures, to color code, or to attract attention to something you want the child to look at.
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