Picture Symbol Support on the iPad

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Use an App

Widgit Discover 

• stories on three levels - text, symbol supported and simple symbol supported
• text-to-speech to read back stories and questions
• vocabulary support
• vocabulary flashcards
• currently available for three topics Tudors, Egyptians, Victorians
• $9.99 Each

Attainment Symbol Support App

• this app is add picture symbols to text as you type (think Writing with Symbols, Symbolate on Boardmaker or SymWriter)
• the teacher could create text and save for the student to read, if needed
• e-mail or save as PDF
• $59.99 (coming soon)

Use a PDF 

• use e-mail, iTunes, Dropbox, Drive or a similar method to send PDFs of symbol supported text to your iPad

• sources of Symbol Supported reading materials in PDF include:
• Symbol World
• Slater Software
• News-2-You (subscription)
• Unique Learning Program (subscription)
• Widget (free and paid materials)

• if your Symbol Supported material isn't a PDF (for example you made it yourself in Boardmaker) use the free program Cute PDF Writer to save as a PDF and then send it

• open your PDF in a text-to-speech app to hear it read aloud, such as:
• Voice Dream Reader
• PDF Connoisseur
• vBooks PDF Voice Reader

• if your Symbol Supported materials happen to be a worksheet or something you want your students to be able to write on or mark up try an annotation program for PDFs on the iPad and they can do the work on the tablet
• iAnnotate PDF
• Paper Port Notes

My Christmas Wish

• Vendors producing symbol supported materials start distributing them as app or as books through iBooks to make them more accessible.  Some vendors I would like to see do this are:
• Widget
• Help Me Read/Oxford Books
• Clicker 6 - I would gladly pay the full price of the software AGAIN to have it in app form
• who else?