Freebies and Trials

Download free symbolized resources and free trials, literacy and communication software

Free resources, like symbolized materials to use in your class, and free trials of some of our most popular software products.

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Bridges Essentials

Download our free Bridges Essentials digital version.

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Chromebook Accessibility Guide

Download our free  Chromebook Accessibility: the Missing Users Guide

 

 

Free Symbolized Materials 

From stories, to rules, display cards, and activities, we've drafted up some symbolized resources for you to use in your class. Feel free to download, save, and print! 

Download Groundhog Day Poem and Word Search Roasted Pumpkin Seed Symbolized Recipe and Vocabulary Cards In Flanders Fields - Poem and Vocabulary Sheet
Groundhog Day Poem and Word Search Roasted Pumpkin Seed Symbolized Recipe and Vocabulary Cards In Flanders Fields - Poem and Vocabulary Sheet
Download the recipe and vocab cards in French too

 

Download Winter Playground Rules and Winter Vocabulary Règles d'hiver pour le terrain de jeu Oh Canada! - Song and Vocabulary Sheet
Winter Playground Rules and Winter Vocabulary Règles d'hiver pour le terrain de jeu Oh Canada! - Song and Vocabulary Sheet
Tulips - Story and Word Search
Tulips - Story and Word Search

Free Trials 

Kurzweil 3000

K3000 is literacy support software with powerful reading, writing, test-taking, and study skills tools that makes curriculum accessible to all students.

It is particularly appropriate for students with learning disabilities such as Dyslexia, those who require reading intervention, students struggling with reading comprehension and English Language Learners(ELL).  It is an ideal literacy instructional tool for any size education community that is putting UDL (Universal Design for Learning) or an RTI (Response to Intervention) in action.

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InPrint 3

Free 21 Day Trial 

Create accessible symbolized materials for school, home, business or community in minutes: including books, flashcards, worksheets, and accessible documents.


Our Canadian version features French symbolizing and templates plus Canadian specific vocabulary -- geographic features, cities, provinces even historical features. InPrint is the ideal tool for not just for special needs support but for creating engaging materials in:

Social studies
Science and math
English Language Learning and ESL
Core French and French immersion

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    Widgit Online 

    Free 21 day trial

    Create, save, and share symbol documents for students and between colleagues at school.

    Support learning and communication by creating symbol documents, flashcards, activities, and time tables in your web browser, meaning there's no software for you to install!

    With over 70 templates to choose from, easily create symbol resources on the cloud.

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    Grid 3
    Free 60 day trial
    You can do so much more with Grid 3, from symbolised email and SMS, to quick and accurate communication for text users. There are tools and all new features to make saying what you want, accessing your computer and controlling your environment easier than ever before, using every type of access, from eye gaze and switch technology, to touch and pointing devices.

    With this complete software solution, you can use a computer as a voice output communication aid with symbols or text to build sentences, as well as access popular apps like YouTube and Skype, and even environmental control! Great for people with limited or no verbal communication.
    HelpKidzLearn
    10 Free Activities from HKL Games and Activities
    80+ Games & Activities that can be accessed using mouse and keyboard, switch(es), touch screen, interactive classroom displays, joy stick, roller ball and eye gaze.

    Ideal for children with a wide range of special educational needs and learning difficulties at a pre-literacy or early literacy level. It is also suitable for early years users.

    **Select the Free User option from the Annual Subscription menu on the right side of the page**

    SymWriter 2 Free Trial

    Canadian Communicate: SymWriter 2 is a word processor with an over 40,000 word symbol vocabulary that activates, inspires, and guides reluctant writers. 

    Fully English/French bilingual, SymWriter is a proven writing tool for:

    English and or French language learners
    Reluctant or struggling intermediate writers
    Students on the Autism spectrum or with cognitive or physical challenges
    French immersion programs
    Primary writers

      clicker logo

      28 Day Free Trial

      Clicker is the award-winning literacy tool that enables students of all abilities to significantly develop their reading and writing skills - used on over half a million school computers worldwide!

      Clicker makes it easier than ever for teachers to provide personalized literacy supports across the curriculum - from planning, to writing, to proofing!