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I just found a new product and I am excited about using the trial version.  The new product is Communicate: SymWriter.  This product is by Widgit Software and is available through Mayer-Johnson.

From the Mayer-Johnson Website:

Beginning readers and writers gain extensive literacy support through symbol usage, and more advanced students also benefit from the language support symbols provide.

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Teachers, parents and therapists can quickly and easily adapt written materials with symbols to create stories, sentence strips, directions, recipes, schedules, songs, poems, worksheets and more.

Also create computer-based activities with voice output and symbol support, such as topical writing and sentence building, spelling and counting activities, assessments and cross-curricular exercises.

Beginning writers or individuals who don’t recognize text can write with symbol support and benefit from speech feedback. Or, text users benefit from a talking word processing program.

Communicate: SymWriter is the next generation of symbol-word processing, with Smart Symbolizing—parts of speech automatically symbolize correctly. Windows Vista compatible.

Follow this link to see a comparison of Writing with Symbols and SymWriter.

WWS200 vs. SymWriter

I will let you know more about it when I use my trial version.