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Boardmaker for the Macintosh v.5.0

Note: Review only, product no longer for sale.

Flexible and powerful communication display maker.

Boardmaker is a graphics database containing over 3,000 Picture Communication Symbols (from PCS Books I, II, & III) in bitmapped clip art form. The program allows you to: Make a professional looking communication display in minutes. Quickly find and paste pictures into your display with a mouse click. Make the pictures any size and with any spacing. Print and/or save your display on disk for later use. Print displays in black & white or color (if you have a color printer). Store, name, retrieve, resize, and paste scanned or custom-drawn pictures. Make worksheets, picture instruction sheets, reading books, journals, or posters. These may be made in Boardmaker or by pasting the pictures in your desktop publishing program. Languages included: English, Spanish, French, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch. Language features of Boardmaker: Each symbol is translated into 10 languages and may be found and printed in any of the languages. This means that you can build a communication board in any language without being able to speak it. Symbols may be copied with 1) no text above the symbol, 2) one language above the symbol, or 3) any two languages above the symbol. Additional languages may be added by typing over existing languages. Includes: 3,000 Picture Communication Symbols from Books I, II, and III. Each Boardmaker comes with a set of black and white symbols and a set of color symbols. A drawing program. Assorted premade blank grids for making communication boards or overlays. A Boardmaker manual and Picture Index. A video showing you how to use Boardmaker. Symbols come in color and black and white! Vary size of cell, symbol, and text. Create reverse symbols. Make communication boards. Create worksheets. Design activity posters. 10 languages are included. Macintosh System Requirements System 7 or greater Macintosh Plus or greater 4 megs of RAM Hard disk space required: 6 megabytes for black & white symbols 16 megabytes for color symbols 22 megs for both color and black & white symbols

Typical Access Profile

Auditory Normal Low Extremely Low Not Using Hearing Hyper-Acute	Vision Normal Low Extremely Low Not Using Vision
Gross Motor All Some Few Not Using Gross Motor	Fine Motor All Some Few Not Using Fine Motor
Developmental Age Range 0 - 2 3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13 and Over	Language Typical Some Spoken Receptive Only Sign Assistive/Augmentitive Not Using Language