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Boardmaker® v.6

A real classic for printed materials

$329.00

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Boardmaker® lets you create valuable printed materials, like communication boards, sequences and schedules that are perfect for all of your students. Easy-to-use features let you design your own materials, with symbols supported in 44 languages, and choose the topics, symbols, labels, colors borders, languages and more – all designed to help your students reach classroom goals.

Boardmaker® v.6 software is the most popular choice among educators, speech-language pathologists and para-professionals for creating new and adapting existing activities for students with special needs. What does that mean? It means that, with Boardmaker®, you can create and adapt symbol-based printed activities that are a fit for all of your students – no matter their ability. A symbol database combined with an easy-to-use drawing program, Boardmaker® features more than 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols™ (PCS) in 44 languages, all in color and black and white.

How Teachers are using Boardmaker® Educators are using Picture Communication Symbols™ (PCS) with Boardmaker® to enhance learning and communication for their special needs students. Boardmaker® gives educators the ability to create a wide range of materials with its wide range of time-saving tools and features. Here are just a few ideas:

Visual schedules and social skills stories for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Materials to reinforce common educational, behavioral, and functional living skills
Books and symbol-supported literacy activities for beginning and pre-readers
Communication boards and device overlays for non-verbal students
Worksheets and flash cards for English Language Learners
Song and Story boards for preschoolers

Boardmaker

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Time-saving tools
Boardmaker® has been developed and refined to reduce the time and effort involved to adapt curriculum to meet your student's individual needs.

Quickly adapt a story or poem with the Symbolate tool which adds symbols to text automatically as you type
Swap content, appearance and actions between two or more buttons instantly with the swap feature
Drag-and-drop and resize images from the Internet or from your own digital camera
Randomly shuffle buttons to quickly create new sorting activities or bingo boards

Think about how you can use Boardmaker® to adapt materials you've already created, or consider the brand new materials you can create from scratch. The possibilities are endless!

What's Included Boardmaker® includes more than 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols™ (PCS) in both color and black-and-white, which are supported in 44 languages. There are over 350 print templates and sample boards to get you started. Use them as they are, adapt them to your students' needs, or create your own from scratch. Want even more symbols and activities? Choose from Add-ons and additional PCS designed for Boardmaker®, Boardmaker® Plus! and Boardmaker® with Speaking Dynamically Pro.

Learn more about how the Boardmaker® Software Family can work for you. Check out our Learning Resources like Online Live, Recorded and Private Classes; Implementation Workshops; Hands-On Labs and training packages.

Windows System Requirements
Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows 7
Memory: 256 MB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 1 GB
CD in Drive: Yes

Mac System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher - Compatible with Mac OS 10.7.X (Lion)
Memory: 256 MB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 1 GB
CD in Drive: Yes

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On 5/1/12 Thorn posted:

NEED TO MAKE INSTALL MORE SUITABLE

Great program but the fact that you have to run and only run the program from the disc in the drive is beyond me. Many other programs don't make it so that you have to keep track and worry about hundreds of dollars of software. Please change the way it's installed and give an update to change this.
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On 3/26/12 Katwren posted:

CD Dependent

Boardmaker itself is fantastic. However, the dependence on the CD is a problem, as others have noted. It is perhaps better to find an alternative that is not dependent on having the actual CD that can be lost, stolen (this happened in my District), or damaged - especially if there are no back-ups to some of these problems! If you don't have the CD, you are OUT OF LUCK and out over 300 dollars. This is so significant a problem that I have downgraded my evaluation of the product considerably, from five stars to two.
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On 3/24/12 brandon c. posted:

Boardmaker is my favorite

I love using boardmaker v.6 because you can make worksheets, play games and making boards. I amn enjoying this software. It is the best!!!!
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On 3/24/12 brandon posted:

Boardmaker v.6... I love it !

Boardmaker v.6 is the best software ever. Love making worksheets, making boards and playing game on one disk!! love it!!!
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On 11/8/11 Sherri posted:

destroyed disk

I downloaded the software, but a student of mine destroyed the disk. I am unable to use the software w/o the disk. You should be able to use the software w/o the disk. I have plenty of other software that I do not need the CD for.
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On 6/3/11 Annie posted:

Fabulous!

I am an autism teacher who has used this product for 11 years. The CD lives in my computer. I use it for communication devices, for interactive story reading, for picture sorts, worksheet extensions, for communication programs, morning meeting activities, schedules, and so on. I am in trepidation of the day I have to turn the CD back into the school system for summer inventory. So perhaps after 11 years I had best get my own copy!
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On 1/14/11 AXL posted:

Windows 7

Not working on Windows 7. Please update!
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On 2/10/10 Alex posted:

I love it!

I have it and it is so much fun to use with my kids!
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On 11/9/09 Ann posted:

Don't buy unless you keep under lock and key

You can only run it with the CD in the drive. If you have a child that might damage it, you're out big bucks. Registering the software isn't enough, nor is having proof of purchase. You need actual CD pieces (even if your kid threw them down a vent -- some parents may understand) to get the HONOR of spending $25 to get a replacement CD. Why you can't have it and install it is beyond me. With the number of children using this to communicate, it's cruel at this point to restrict them access to pictures with words on top of them. I paid eight grand for a device, and this software. Now the device is useless without the ability to make the overlays for it. As if having a non verbal child wasn't hard enough. We finally made progress before he got to the CD (that I didn't know he could open the tray up). Lovely.

So great software, if you guard the CD WITH YOUR LIFE.
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On 9/26/09 Erik posted:

Boardmaker v.6

i love it