Boardmaker v.6 software is widely regarded as the essential tool for adapting symbol-based printed activities for students with special needs. 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 both color and black-and-white.
Develop print materials based on Picture Communication Symbols (PCS)
Teachers are using Boardmaker to enhance learning and communication for their special needs students. With Boardmaker you can create an assortment of print materials to reinforce your classroom activities. 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
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.
Create and Adapt
Boardmaker gives you the freedom to create an activity ideally suited to the needs of your student or child. It includes over 150 templates to get you started. With a free membership to AdaptedLearning.com, our online board sharing site, you will have access to thousands of free boards contributed by teachers and parents like yourself. Use them as they are or adapt them as you need.
- Add your own symbols, digital images or other graphics to Boardmaker’s comprehensive symbol library.
- Combine elements of different PCS to create custom symbols.
- Create stories, language activities, games and more using a combination of PCS, photos or illustrations
- Customize buttons using dashed lines, varied thickness and colored button borders.
- Install optional country-specific symbols like holidays, food, currency and famous people.
- Draw free form buttons of any shape and change button colors and borders.
- Print and cut materials with the help of dash lines that make cutting easy.
Work from anywhere!
So many teachers, therapists, and others that support students with special needs, are constantly on the go. They work from different locations, but they always need their tools with them. That is why we now offer the AdaptedLearning Print Editor. This web-based subscription service works as a companion to your Boardmaker software. With Print Editor, you can log into your AdaptedLearning.com account from any computer (Windows or Mac) and open, edit, and print your Boardmaker boards.