Free Tulip Symbolized Story and Word Search

  For spring we wrote up a quick article in Widgit Online about Tulips.  I used a couple of non-symbol images for the story too. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the free pdf of our Widgit symbolized Tulips article with the word search. This time I the Widgit Online template to create a word search to teach the new…

Symbolized Oh Canada in Widgit Online

As with symbolizing, In Flanders Fields,  Oh Canada’s abstract language created some interesting challenges and conversations around the office when we set out to symbolize it in Widgit Online. [CLICK HERE to download the pdf] Specifically “native,” “command” and “guard,” made us think. “Native” generates a symbol of a first nations person (see the slideshow below for the images mentioned here).…

Symbolized Winter Rules and Vocab

Apart from Calgary, (where I hear they have flurries) not a lot of Canada is getting the sort of winter weather we usually expect by this time of year.  Nonetheless, you know it will come eventually. And when it does our 4 Winter Rules for a playground and accompanying vocab sheet that we created with Widgit Online, (the web…

Free Symbolized Resources for 2015 Pan Am Games

Inspired by our recent March break camps and up coming summer camps, our training department put together some symbolized resources for the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games taking place in Toronto in July. Below you can download the pdf versions which you can print freely. If you have Communicate: In Print, email us at Bridges and…

Accessible Text Repositories — Canadian and International

Recently, a teacher in BC whose student just received Kurzweil 3000 called and said “Given that many students in BC use Kurzweil 3000, I have two questions: 1) Surely, I don’t have to turn a whole bunch of common Grade 6 novels and textbooks into .kesi files for this specific student? 2) Surely, someone else has…

SymWriter in the Cloud!

SymWriter Online Canadian has been launched.   Another familiar piece of AT software has floated up and out to lofty internet heights; symbol supported word processing is in the cloud available through your web browser. Comparing SymWriter Online (SWO) with Communicate: SymWriter 2, the cloud version is not as feature rich as the  PC version (we’ll…

Canadian SymWriter 2 is here!

The wait is finally over.  We took more than a year to translate and localize the new Canadian version of SymWriter 2 but it’s now available, exclusively from Bridges. Inspire activate and guide writers with the quicker and easier than ever, SymWriter 2.  And our version has even more Canadian curricular vocabulary in both English…

Oh Wow! Parents React to Medical Communication Book

Showing new communication tools for close to two decades, I’ve heard plenty of “Oh Wow’s” from parents. But two fairly recent products at opposing ends of the cost, and the hi/low tech spectrum, have produced more jaw drops and exclamations of “this will change my child’s life!” than I’ve ever experienced before. One is eye-gaze…

ICE Card and Dementia Induced Wandering

The Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario (ALSO)  is launching a new awareness campaign addressing the problem of individuals with dementia wandering from home, (see the story on CTV News here).  According to the Society “3 out of five people with dementia become lost at some point, often without warning.” (See ALSO’s Finding Your Way site) The…

New Health Communication Tools Coming to Canada

At the recent Geneva Centre International Autism Symposium we were overwhelmed by the response to the Widgit Health symbolized communication tools.  So we’re pushing full steam ahead to localize and manufacture them for Canada. There are 4 purchasable tools designed for easy non-verbal, symbol supported communication of key health and medical information: First Responders Book:…