Comprising 4 packs aimed at all ages to promote independence and choice. A great resource to encourage self advocacy within personal care planning

The packs use the Widgit Literacy Symbols and include full literature. The content of the pack has been devised by Thomas Anthony.

Downloads
What's in each pack
How to use the packs

Download it for use in Communicate: In Print 2, including all the additional graphics so that you can tailor the materials to suit your group and make your own materials.
You need 'Communicate: In Print 2' installed to able to use this resource

Download the packs as PDF Files. These do not require symbol software, but you will not be able to edit the activities.
You do not need any Widgit software to be able to use this resource

Menu Selector

The menu selector is designed to enable individuals of all levels of understanding to express their choices, likes and dislikes with their daily meals. Included are 287 Widgit Literacy symbols of food choices, 4 choices display pages, 4 meal time weekly visual planners for breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts. Additional days of the week symbols. A printed menu page with a choice display page on the reverse for care home documentation purposes

Activity Selector

Designed as a productive and proactive tool to enable individuals to make independent choices in their everyday lives. Included are 180 Widgit Literacy symbols of activity choices, 3 choice display pages, 1 weekly visual planner, 2 daily visual planners, additional days of the week symbols and a printed activity planner.

Shopping Support Pack

Designed to support individuals with various communication skills and abilities to become more involved with necessary survival activities such as food, clothes and household shopping to assist them to develop and maintain skills necessary to work towards independence. Focusing on 'picture'to item' association the pack gives individuals control, choice and independence by removing reading and writing barriers.

Housework Board

A proactive tool to enable individuals to make independent choices in their everyday lives. This pack will assist carers, parents and teachers to understand individual choices involved in daily living. The housework boards allow individuals to make decisions and clearly communicate these to people around them. Included are 6 house work Widgit Literacy symbols, a choices display page, 2 chores boards and 1 blank template for appropriate photographs to be applied to.

Information

Important Notice

All Widgit resources whether bought or free of charge are protected by copyright. The symbols are copyright Widgit Software or Mayer Johnson LLC and the content of the materials is copyright Widgit Software unless otherwise specified.

You may not under any circumstances distribute these to any third parties, they are for your own use. Distribution of materials is illegal.

Printing the materials from Communicate: In Print 2

The Communicate: In Print 2 set of files are installed into the Communicate files/In Print Writing folder, in Widgit Resources.

The extra vocabulary for the wordlist and the extra graphics are provided with the pack and are automatically added to your Widgit graphic resources. This enables you to also create your own materials to meet individual needs.

Communicate: In Print gives you the option to print either as single sheets or as books ready to staple and fold. You can also choose to print double sided. You can print them in A4 or A5, and can choose to have the symbols in colour or black and white.

Printing the PDF Files

The PDF version of this pack cannot be configured for individual use, but do not require specific symbol software.

These files can be printed directly from Acrobat Reader. You do not need any of the Widgit Products to access these files, but you will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed.