Writing+with+symbols

__Information from Writing with Symbols trainings held for Teachers and Paraprofessional__ __s__ • A software program that works as a word processor with speech output. • Writing with Symbols 2000 lets you write with symbols and pictures: • **Symbols** There are two different sets of graphics supplied with the program: Widgit Rebus and PCS. You can easily switch between one set and another. • **Pictures** You can also bring in your own pictures and photographs to any document or grid. • Use Writing with Symbols 2000 as Symbol Processor as a teacher tool • Use Writing with Symbols 2000 Talking Word Processor for giving help with writing • Use Writing with Symbols 2000 Grids for Printing for activities and communication activities
 * What is Writing with Symbols (WWS)? **
 * What does it do? **
 * __Use Writing with Symbols 2000 Grid Writing using grids to support student writing__

** • Writing with Symbols 2000 gives you full and flexible support for literacy development. It includes: • · a fully functioning word processor · a fully functioning symbol processor · a pictorial spellchecker · over 5000 Rebus symbols · over 3000 black and white and over 3000 colored PCS symbols · in built writing tools so that users can write by selecting letters, words images or any combination from lists or grids
 * __Using Writing with Symbols 2000 you can:__

** • write with any level of symbol support - producing writing which automatically fully illustrated, or which has been made with the help of illustrations, but which is completely in text when it is finished. • · write in a full window, or in a grid - which is great for communication books, worksheets and timetables etc **Ideas to support your students with WWS** • Sentence strips • Picture choice tests • Social stories • Task Analysis • Schedules • Stories/books • Directions to a game • Recipes • Social scripts • Steps for centers • Visualizations of tasks • Bingo Cards • Menu E. Panek 2006