As I've learned at ATIA, lots of SLPs and AT Specialists use our Picture Card template to make low-tech communication boards. It makes sense: you can quickly layout from 1-48 cards on a page and it's quick and easy.But it kinda stinks! The pages are portrait, not landscape, there's not enough room between the cells, there's no way to spread across two pages or use legal paper, etc.
So, we're hoping the folks in the #SLPeeps and #ATChat communities can help us build a great new template set just for communication boards! Tell us what you use today, what's great about it, what stinks, how you lay things out, and we'll try very hard to make our Material Wizard generate them quickly and easily (and of course, affordably!).
I (Bill) will be doing this work this week, and here's what I know so far:
- Thanks to @atklingensmith and @SLP_Echo I know that background-colors are a MUST
- @PrAACticalAAC taught me that I need the colors for the Fitzgerald and Goossens color coding schemes
- Many #SLPeeps tell me that there's not enough space between the cells and some want rounded corners on the cells (but I don't know if that's good or bad or a personal choice!)
- We need a version that easily will convert into book form (space for binding on left/right/top/bottom
- This 2008 AAC Institute Article gives me some great guidelines but doesn't show me what people are needing in practice.
So, I would LOVE some help here, #SLPeeps and #ATChat folks: you've got my full attention, and I'll make it do what you ask (within reason, of course).
Tell me what you're looking for in terms of low-tech communication boards? Post pictures of your favorite layouts and tell me how they could be even better!
You can leave comments below, or just share them via Twitter and include @LessonPix in the post - I'll see them!
Thanks everyone, and I can't wait to see what you suggest!
Bill Binko
LessonPix.com
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