See guide for ideas to develop appreciation of matching objects to pictures and finding things by tactile means.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Using the program Communicate:In Print you can help children with little speech but lots of ideas to get something on paper. Making story-boards provides the opportunity to elicit ideas, organise narrative, invite choosing, and make the child's idea come alive. The adult can add text later and put symbol support on critical key words. Then an adult can read the text and the child can 'read' the symbolised words to tell the story. He will be practising some important pre-reading skills.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Two sets of dominos with verbs that occur with different prepositions as phrasal verbs. See guide for ideas.

Supplied with notes about a way to work on the concept of size comparison. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols. Work from real objects through matching pictures up to using general knowledge and the ability to think abstractly to sequence non-matching pictures and then text.

See the guide for suggestions. These two similar resources are intended for barrier game activities and the pictures need accurate descriptions including a preposition word. Illustrated with Widgit symbols. Good for receptive and expressive language. Text captions can also be used as a reading-for-meaning task with readers.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Two files of verbs.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Some silly re-makes of nursery rhymes with symbol support to read, predict, and then cut up and match.

Designed for young boys with social communication disorder (or other language delay). Encourage simple remarks. Play Pairs or matching. Ideas given for use.

Symbols (c) Widgit Software 2010. Bonds to 5 (and subtract from 5). Three similar stories and worksheets. Print the three stories 2-up on A4 paper. Print the worksheets on A4 paper. Suggestions on the worksheet pages use a very visual ‘take-away’ method first (by destroying the correct number of images). Then, the child has to say how many are needed to replace them to get back to 5 before the next sum, and cut the correct number of images for the replacement. Sums are also presented in written form.

Three resources to help children with impaired language skills understand and benefit from this lovely book used in so many schools. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols. The pages could be presented with a simplified telling. If the CD is available, it is always useful to hear the story read exactly the same lots of times and the pages could accompany this. The song prompt cards for one of the CD songs lists the 'wow words' - listen and find the card, or use the card to sing the song with the instrumental version. The mind-map is a prompt for children to retell the story in their own way.

Picture matching, spot the difference, odd one out, counting, reading for meaning and sequencing. Illustrated with PCS or Widgit symbols.