Staff 1, Administrator: Product one most closely resembles what students already use with their communication tools in school.

Staff 2, Speech and Language Pathologist: The Smarty Symbol and Lee Recreation communication boards look similar to a lot of the communication devices or symbols that are used by students at PSD.  I really like that the Smarty Symbol board allows the board to be downloaded to a personal device so that communication can be available anywhere on the playground or practiced before going outside.   

Staff 3, School Psychologist: This is incredible! Please let me know how I can further support these efforts at Horizon. 

Staff 4, Speech and Language Pathologist: When thinking about AAC (Augmentative Alternative Communication) we prioritize core vocabulary, words that we use 80% of the time, as they occur at a higher frequency.  Words such as: More, Help, Want, Go.  That being said, we also want to have symbols that are visually contrastive and different enough from one another to communicate different words.    We also use the Fitzgerald Key for AAC materials, which I have sent in an email to you.   Lee Recreation seems to do this best.  My second choice ended up being the Smarty Symbols. Although they have distinct core vocabulary intertwined with fringe vocabulary (situation/activity specific words, in this case playground vocab) in their product, the board seems to be organized well as compared to my third choice, Talk to Me Technologies. Talk to Me Technologies does not appear to organize or code by color, and their symbols are similar.  This is also why I have ranked the Autism Level Up product last, the visuals have core words, however, there is not enough visual differentiation.”

Staff 5, Special Education: Products 3 and 1 use symbols that most of our students have seen/appear to be most functional as well. Not sure size differences?  Product 2 appears that it would be PHYSICALLY most accessible to our youngest learners - not having to point up high to use symbols that are up there. Thank you for doing this! I LOVE the purpose :)