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This site has some excellent pecs cards you can print off. Go halfway down the

page to find them.

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Beyond Autism Pecs Pictures/Icons Pages

Also check out the Communication, Assistive Technology and Augmentive

Communication page as there are tons of great sites there also.

I have tried to make a variety of pictures for kids at different levels. The

" photo " ones of food are getting to be more of common name brands and I have

tried to give you choices in brands when I can for the ones the kids may be

familiar with in your house.

" On-line " Grocery stores are a great source of pictures for name brand foods.

For those of you that don't have easy access to laminating your pictures I

remember what the school did last year when they needed a pecs in a hurry that

they did not have - glue your picture/pictures to index cards and use clear

contact paper to protect and strengthen them.

When you print the pictures I would advise making sure that you have your

printer set on " best quality " .

You can always copy/cut/paste these pictures and manipulate them in your own

word processing/drawing programs to try to make them fit your needs.

I bought a roll of self adhesive magnets and put a piece on the back of each pec

and put them on the side of my refrigerator. Works great! My son will stand

their and scan the pictures for what he wants and bring it to us. Of course the

frig is kind of messy looking but...

These symbols/pictures are also highly effective using them for a " schedule "

system or for a " choice board " when using a token system. In my " personal

opinion " I recommend the book " ( " Activity Schedules for Children with Autism:

Teaching Independent Behavior. " Activity schedules enable children with autism to

accomplish activities with greatly reduced adult supervision. An activity

schedule is a set of pictures or words that cues a child to engage in a sequence

of activities. When the activities are mastered, the children are more self

directed and purposeful in their home, school and leisure activities. In this

book, parents and professionals will find detailed instructions to help them

create schedules and to teach children to use them. 120 pages, Soft Cover, 1999,

by Lynn E. McClannahan, Ph.D. and J. Krantz, Ph.D. Available at

Different Roads To Learning

Do To Learn (A web site for those with special learning needs. Why? Life can be

challenging, especially for those who see the world in a different way. This

site provides information and special learning tools for anyone having

difficulty understanding, ordering and functioning in our world. We have planned

our activities to help children and adults with diagnosed disorders such as

autism, LD or ADD. These activities may also benefit anyone learning basic

language and daily living skills, including young children. Our site is designed

to allow those with special needs to Do activities in a safe, planned way and To

Learn at their own pace)(You are going to LOVE THIS SITE!!. Picture schedules,

black and white pictures to print out, templates,really is a GREAT SITE!)

Free Worksheets:Handwriting Zaner Bloser (these are new free printable

worksheets that have been added. There are worksheets for lower and upper case

alphabets for 5-6 year olds. Under miscellaneous there is lined paper you can

print out has small, medium or large lines. These worksheets uses School House

Fonts from Signature Software and are patterned after the Zaner-Bloser method of

handwriting. Pretty cool!)

Free Worksheets: Reading : Sight Words (These have free printable worksheets for

the Dolch words * Grade One * Grade Three * Grade Two * Pre-Primer * Primer)

KidsAccess Eye-cons Catalog Main Page

Pyramid Educational Products (Pyramid Educational Products is dedicated to

providing educational materials to ensure that families, educators and students

have the materials needed to use communication skills in their everyday

schedules and lives. We continue to develop products that will enrich not only

the student's lives but also the lives of those who have dedicated their lives

to teaching these students.)

Scheduling and Self Help (the " time timer " is a visual timer that is used to

solve time perception problems at all age and ability levels. A graphic clock

face gives the child visual understanding of time elapsing. This is perfect for

timed activities and for getting ready. The Timer is only visual and when the

colored portion elapses, the time is over. It is battery operated quartz

movement and can be free standing or hung on a wall.) Also available at " Time

Timer "

Here are some " schedule examples " from in Room 5's Autism Page. Her entire

site has several good ideas and information and she has done an excellant job!

See it, Say it, Write it

Talk, Learn and Communicate Visually Cued Instruction

Visual Strategies (need acrobat reader 4.0)

Visual Supports from CARD in Gainsville,Fla. (Visual communication tools such as

objects, photographs, picture symbols, daily schedules, calendars and choice

boards can provide the support necessary to greatly improve a child's

understanding and ability to communicate.) (They have done an outstanding job of

presenting schedule boards etc...this is an excellant resource) Check out their

entire site not just this one portion.

Welcome to Kids Fonts! (We are a new site dedicated to bringing do-it-yourself

supplies to teachers of toddler-Kindergarten age children. Whether you're

homeschooling, or are just tired of the prepackaged worksheets available to

early-childhood educators, Kids Fonts is here to help! Scroll down to see what

we currently have available, and to tell us what you'd like to see in the

future.All fonts are TrueType, Mac & Windows versions available.) (I put this

here as the site has a " tracing " dot to dot type of print font available for

free download and wanted to make sure that people found it!)

Workstation Photos

An Easy Way To Make Pictures

Most computers have a " photo " or " take picture " function (on the MAC it is

control-shift-three) and it will take a picture of whatever is on your screen.

You can then take the " picture " you took and manipulate / resize / add text or

whatever in your graphics program. You can do this with any favorite computer

programs that are running, take " pictures " of favorite cartoon characters on web

sites, toys or games at your favorite toy web site such as etoys.com or

toysrus.com or amazon.com etc....it is a GREAT way to get pictures for a

communication system. Then if you have Claris Works or Microsoft Word or

whatever you use for drawing and painting you can copy - paste them with several

pictures to a document and print it out! Voila!

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Boardmaker Downloadable Files

Keep in mind that these may not work for you if you don't have the boardmaker

program installed. But they all might be worth checking out to see if there is

anything you can print out!

Aided Language Stimulation Overlays for Books (These are all made with

Boardmaker. You must have Boardmaker from Mayer Co. or Picture It from

Slater Software in order to print these overlays. Below are samples. You may

need to change page setup to print overlays. The sample files do not " open " they

are downloaded and you are unable to view them unless you have Boardmaker)

Boardmaker on Board a set of 12 downloadable files for boardmaker

Boardmaker story made by kids on an apple picking trip

Boardmaker and Intellipics (MAC) Free Downloads Iowa AEA Assistive Technology

Downloadable Boardmaker resources and example files at Special Education

Technology British Columbia

The DynaVox Page Exchange These pre-programmed pages for the DynaVox family of

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices and software are

offered free for your own use or client use. These files will be useful only if

you already use DynaVox System Software.The pages are easily modified and

customized. The graphic images of these pages can be viewed by everyone. Users

of other dynamic display AAC software and devices may get new ideas for their

own programming.however there is a " page photo " you can look at and then print)

Examples of Intellikeys overlays at Special Education Technology British

Columbia

How to Use Visual Supports to Help People With Autism

Intellikeys activity exchange (Welcome to the IntelliTools Activity Exchange!

Here you'll find hundreds of activities for use with IntelliKeys that have been

created by teachers, parents, and specialists worldwide. These lessons, games,

and exercises have been created with Overlay Maker, IntelliTalk, IntelliPics and

ClickIt! to meet specific curriculum objectives. They're a fabulous classroom

resource and a great way to experience the Creativity Tools in action. You can

browse the Activity Exchange and download activities directly to your hard

drive)

Intellikey players (If Overlay Maker, IntelliPics, or ClickIt! are not installed

on your computer, you will need to install the appropriate Players. Players will

allow you to run an activity without running the program used to create it. (To

edit or customize an activity, however, the actual software is needed)

Intellipics (MAC) Connections, Allegheny County Public Schools

Intellipics (MAC and WIN) Early Childhood Thematic Units (These software

applications are designed and published through a Technology Grant Project

supported by the San Bernardino County Schools, Special Services, Special

Education Division. The intent of this Grant is to design Early Childhood

Thematic Units that incorporate technology throughout the curriculum. These

applications are designed to run using Hyperstudio and Intellitools for the

Macintosh computer. They will require an expander,such as Stuff-It, to extract

properly.)

Mayer- Download Files for MAC or Windows

Ohio Valley Educational ative " cheat sheets' for Boardmaker and Overlay

Maker.

Ohio Valley Educational ative Project Ride (Finding what you REALLY want

and need on the internet is like digging for buried treasure. RIDE has helped

" unearth " some of the most useful sites for teachers serving children

disabilities. The following links are sites that will either provide you with

pre-made materials like Overlays for the Intellikeys or Communication Boards for

children using AAC. Additionally, we have included links to the vendors that we

have used the most to purchase assistive technology.)

Talk, Learn, and Communicate

Teacher Created Resources Page * Boardmaker files * Boardmaker files formatted

for the Voice in the Box * Intellipics Games

These Boardmaker templates were created by Burnaby Teachers for Burnaby

Teachers. Please feel free to download them and use them where appropriate.

Visually Cued Instruction Communication, Comprehension & Predictability and

Structure

Visual Schedule Systems at Special Education Technology British Columbia

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Resources For Pictures

ArtToday Members Site

Barry's Clip Art Server

Clipart.com

ClipArt Browser

Comstock Stock Photography

Corbis Search 1.0

Corel: home business, graphics, Web and desktop

Finding Pictures Online

Free Stuff Graphics (Free Stuff - graphics, clipart, software, and more)

Gifpile (The Best!!! Thousands and thousands of gifs, icons, graphics and links)

Icon Bazaar

Iconz....The Ultimate Free Icons Collection

The Icon Browser

PictureQuest User Registration

Public Domain Pictures

Silver Lining Multimedia, Inc. ( " Picture This " disc...It is loaded with over

2400 high-resolution images specifically designed to teach language to visual

learners.) You can also purchase this at Different Roads To Learning

The Stock Market Photo Agency

STOCKPHOTO Stock Photography Network

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These pages are mainly standard size pecs pictures with icons that are most

commonly used

Pecs Pictures Page Five (answer phone, blow, blow bubbles, don't walk, walk, dot

to dot, cut hair, don't pick nose,wait, go potty, wipe bottom)

Pecs Pictures Page Six (backpack, school, no school, play dress up - boy, play

dress up-girl, lunch time, time out-girl, time out- boy, etch a sketch, dump

truck)

Pecs Pictures Page Seven (art, paint, crayon, markers, paintbrush, paints,

paints, computer, scissors, play doh, line up, write)

Pecs Pictures Page Eight (potty, put back, playground, bye, hi, foot, hair,

hand, leg, mouth, nose, toes)

Pecs Pictures Page Nine (tongue, arm, quiet, play, puzzle, book, sit on floor,

hold hands, play game, diaper, pool, sandbox)

Pecs Pictures Page Ten (beads, haircut, tickle, cut nails, throw away, go night

night, socks, shoes, pants, hat, put on pants, put on shirt)

Pecs Pictures Page Eleven (shirt, underpants, bath, letters, shapes, blocks,

circle, diamond, heart, triangle, star, rectangle)

Pecs Pictures Page Twelve (oval, square, count, black, blue, brown, gold, gray,

green, orange, pink, purple)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirteen (red, yellow, white, black, blue, brown, gold, gray,

green, orange, pink,purple)

Pecs Pictures Page Fourteen (three are icons the rest is the start of imported

" real " photographs) (red, yellow, white, broom, comb, phone, remote, bike,

potty, dentist, couch,c ouch,)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty- eight (Icons for nursery rhyme songs-bingo,wheels on

the bus, hey diddle diddle, baa baa black sheep, twinkle twinkle, humpty dumpty,

hickory dickory dock,where is thumbkin?, ants go marching, if you're happy, old

mcdonald, pat-a-cake)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-nine (Icons for nursery rhyme songs- london bridges,

I'm a little teapot, incey wincey spider, row row row your boat, mary had a

little lamb, jack and jill went up the hill)

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These are the most common standard size for pecs with imported " real "

photographs

Pecs Pictures Page Fifteen (start of food items) (soccer, basketball, bowling,

baseball, school bus, line up, jellybeans, pretzel, popcorn, french fries,

broccoli, sandwich)

Pecs Pictures Page Sixteen (food) (orange, pear, grapes, strawberry, apple,

bananas, watermelon, pickle, potato, shopping, chinese food, pizza)

Pecs Pictures Page Seventeen (food) (eggs, taco, cupcake, doughnut, bread,

butter, pancakes, tater tots, corn dog, cupcake, hamburger, hot dog)

Pecs Pictures Page Eighteen (food, a few name brands) (celery, bagel, corn, hot

dog, hamburger, salad, spaghetti, vlasic pickles, claussen pickles, grape jam,

skippy peanut butter, jiff peanut butter)

Pecs Pictures Page Nineteen (food) (melon, taco, olive, cereal, chips, grilled

cheese, chicken nuggets, cookie, popcorn, carrots, salt, salt and pepper)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty (name brand food items) (frenches mustard, campbells

soup, chocolate milk, cookies, pringles, hersey's, oreo, miracle whip, draft

mayonaise, hunts ketchup, heinz ketchup, hellmans mayonaise)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-One (name brand food and drink) (frenches mustard,

musslemans applesauce, coke, pepsi, cherry 7-up, gatorade, squeezit, 7-up,

kool-aid burst, sprite, aunt jemima waffles, eggo waffles,)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Two (name brand crackers) (chicken tenders, corn on

the cob, bugles, teddy grahams, honey maid graham cracker, keebler graham

cracker, cheese nips, town house crackers, ritz crackers, club crackers,

cheez-it, hi ho crackers)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Three (name brand frozen foods) (tomstone pizza,

freschetta pizza, tonys pizza, red baron pizza, mrs. pauls fish sticks, gortons

fish sticks, van de kamps fish sticks, french fries, tator tots, green giant

frozen peas, green giant frozen corn, green giant niblets corn on the cob)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Four (name brand cereals) (premium saltine crackers,

lucky charms, french toast crunch, kix, cocoa pebbles, post raisin brain,

kellogs frosted flakes, fruit loops, cheerios, cinnamon toast crunch, apple

jacks, trix)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Five (name brand cereals and breakfast foods) (cocoa

krispies, cookie crisp, rice krispies, kellogs smacks, cocoa puffs, nilla

wafers, keebler vanilla wafers, nutri grain bars, kudos, pop tarts, nature

valley granola bars, keebler animal crackers )

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Six (candy) (snickers, plain m & m's, peanut m & m's,

milky way, fruit roll ups, fruit gushers, chips ahoy cookies, string thing,

nutter butter cookies, chips deluxe cookies, fig newtons, trix fruit candy )

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Seven (candy,baked beans,yogurt,tuna) (twix, 3

musketeers, colombo yogurt, dannon yogurt, bushs baked beans, b & m baked beans,

van camps beans, chicken of the sea tuna fish, star kist tuna fish, green giant

canned corn, green giant canned peas)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Eight (appliances) (stove, microwave, tv, vcr, vacuum)

Pecs Pictures Page Twenty-Nine (computers, objects) (computer, clock, stapler,

hole punch, umbrella, chair, kleenex, ball, camera)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty (objects, places to go) (paints, paintbrush, tape,

presents, toaster, can opener, money, church, library, post office, gas station,

park)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-One (name brand food hot dogs , bacon, mac and cheese

etc) (oscar mayer hot dogs, ball park hot dogs, hormel bacon, hungry jack

waffle, fritos, oscar mayer bacon, ragu spaghetti sauce, kraft macaroni and

cheese, pringles, rold gold pretzels, tostitos hersey's chocolate bar)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Two (koolaid,jello photos. Places to eat icons)

(kool-aid, jell-o, arby's, burger king, dairy queen, domino's pizza, hardee's,

macdonalds, kentucky fried chicken, wendy's, pizza hut)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Three (places to eat) (taco bell, k mart, wal mart,

chilis, applebee's, arby's, burger king, boston market, blimpie, denny's, dunkin

donuts, fazoli's)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Four (places to eat) (del taco, krispy kreme,

hardee's, taco bell, red lobster, olive garden, dairy queen, papa johns,

chick-fil-a, pizza hut, churchs chicken, domino's pizza)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Five (places to eat) (kentucky fried chicken, papa

johns, perkins, cracker barrel, mcdonald's, chi-chi's)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Six (twelve covers for barney videos)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Seven (videos - 3 more barney covers, green eggs and

ham, cat in the hat, grinch that stole christmas, dr. seuss abc, 2 blues clues

videos, veggie tales, teletubbies and a sesame street counting video)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Eight (videos - 6 covers for thomas the tank engine, 3

covers for winnie pooh, 2 more blue's clues)

Pecs Pictures Page Thirty-Nine (videos - 2 more thomas the tank engine,

pinocchio, pocahontas, cinderella, sleeping beauty, aladdin, little mermaid,

dumbo, pete's dragon, robin hood, mulan)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty (videos - snow white, bug's life, mary poppins, wizard

of oz, toy story, 101 dalmations, lion king, peter pan, simba's pride, hercules,

rescuers, sword in the stone)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-One (videos- quest for camelot, jungle book, games -

hungry hungry hippos, candyland, cootie, hi ho cherry-o, bed bugs, farm

families, go fish, oreo matching, fisher price farm, fisher price garage)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Two (games - lucky ducks, guess who, octopus dominoes,

don't wake daddy, operation, disney memory, barney memory, chicken limbo, lingo

bingo, kids on stage, original memory, letter detective))

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Three (games - mr. potato head, roll over rover, boggle

jr., alphapets, best number game ever, timing it right, rivers roads & rails,

pooh memory, letter detective, )

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Four ( " positions " - beside, between, in front, behind,

out, in, on, off, up, down, under, over)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Five ( " actions " - slide, stand up, sit down, swing,

tie, roll, run, kiss, wave, drink, eat, sleep)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Six ( " actions " - blow, pour, read, kick, jump, clap,)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Seven (actions/activities - kick ball, play soccer,

slide, go sledding, sled, run, sleep, go night night, paint, play dollhouse,

ride bike, ride bike)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Eight (actions/activities - swim, play water, baseball,

softball, trampoline, jump, jump on tramp, circle time, sit in circle, floor

time)

Pecs Pictures Page Forty-Nine (objects - wagon, toilet paper, remote control, tv

control, garbage, stroller, flashlight, keys, timer, fish, mailbox, dice)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty (objects - toaster, bandaid, stool, hanger, cut, light,

broom, toothpaste, dirty clothes, clothes basket, feed dog, dog water)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-One (Holidays - special day, holidays, birthday,

valentines day, st. patricks day, halloween, thanksgiving, easter, fathers day,

mothers day)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-Two (Kids school activities - nap time, rest time,

quiet time, paint, story time, lunch, draw, color, puzzle, blocks, read book,

tie shoe)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-Three (Kids school activities - computer, jump rope,

soccer, kick ball, ride bus,go home, go school, line up)

Pecs Pictures Page Sixty (cheetos, bugles, sun chips, goldfish, crinkle fries,

potato chips, ore ida tator tots, bbq potato chips, microwave popcorn, klondike

bar, sundae crunch bar, popcorn)

Pecs Pictures Page Sixty-One (hamburger helper, pasta salad, lipton noodles,

pasta roni, suddenly salad, tuna helper, rice roni, beef ravioli, spaghetti and

meatballs, manwich, sloppy joe, sunflower seeds)

Pecs Pictures Page Sixty-Two (taco shells, refried beans, chili cheese dip,

salsa, fritos, lunchables nachos, string cheese, taco cheese)

Pecs Pictures Page Sixty-Three (black olives, snow cone, cotton candy, coffee,

coffee pot, coffee maker, lunch tray)

Pecs Pictures Page Sixty-Four (traffic lights, school crossing guard, roller

blades, play cards, potty chair, shot, life jacket, birthday cake)

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Pecs Pictures For Sign Language Symbols

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-Four (more, help, make, open, need, play, put, rub,

try, work, want, close)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-Five (do, don't, don't, come, don't like, don't want,

finished, I need help, get, please, I want, what's that?)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-Six (can I?, slow, my, all done, all gone, fast, no

way, helper, I want to watch, let's go home, trampoline, parachute game)

Pecs Pictures Page Fifty-Seven (now, bedtime, snack time, breakfast time, lunch

time, dinner time, when, never, break time, it's time, circle time, time out)

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I found this website on another group that I belong to

and thought it might be useful to others. Laurie