 Communicate: By Choice
Early Learning activities for switch and symbol users
 Over 100 multiple-choice and question/answer activities included.
Create and edit your own activities using the intuitive editor.
Features the Widgit Literacy Symbols in colour and black & white.
Communicate: By Choice provides a means for creating and using onscreen activities, which present question/answer and multiple-choice tasks to students.
Communicate: By Choice includes over 100 activities, topics include:
- Colour & shape
- Language comprehension
- Letter work
- Memory
- Number
- Science
- Sequencing and sorting
- Visual discrimination
- Word work
Communicate: By Choice activities cover a wide range of basic and curriculum tasks. Everything from very simple tasks for students with severe learning difficulties, to much more demanding cognitive tasks suitable for use in mainstream primary education and for all ages in special education. Teachers can easily allocate sequences of activities for individual students or groups.
Communicate: By Choice is made up of two programs. A 'player' for students to work through the activities, and an editor to edit existing activities and create new ones.
The Communicate: By Choice Player
Activities support a full range of feedback in the form of speech, sound and animations to encourage progress. You can use the 'By Choice' player to browse and view activities. The player can produce a 'progress sheet' at the end of each activity that can be used to record the student's performance.
The player is suitable for whiteboards and touch-screens, as well as being fully switch-operable.
The Communicate: By Choice Editor
The easiest way to get the most out of 'By Choice' is to edit an existing activity and replace the text and images to change the subject matter.
 
It takes 2 minuites to click and replace the images and text in an activity. You'll have instant access to the extensive collection of colour and black & white Widgit Literacy Symbols. And a host of additional pictures, symbols and sounds to help bring your activities to life. You can also add your own digital photographs, clipart, sounds or music.
The editor has three levels of access:
- Edit only - A quick and easy way to edit existing activities
- Create & Edit - Create simple activities with more editing freedom
- Expert - A fully-featured editor for those who want to create activities from scratch.
Also included are a number of example activities that demonstrate the potential of the program and give you a starting point for creating your own activities quickly.
MSI Installers
The latest version of Communicate By Choice (Version 1.1)includes the much anticipated MSI (Windows
Installer Package). This installer will make deployment across networks much easier.
This version also corrects minor bugs which were found in version 1.0.
Purchasing options
'By Choice' can be purchased as stand alone program with the full Widgit Symbol set.
Or:
It can be purchased as an add-on for 'Communicate: In Print 2 in colour' at a reduced price. |
Stand alone version