Twinkl Symbols AAC System 4+
Picture & Voice Communication
Twinkl Limited
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- Free
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Description
Welcome to Twinkl Symbols, a fantastic AAC communication system brought to you by the world’s largest educational publisher. Accredited by Nasen, Twinkl Symbols enables you to create, teach, learn and communicate using visual representations.
This app is designed to open a whole new world of communication for and with children and adults who have SEND and/or speech, language and communication needs. With over 8,000 professionally-designed and illustrated symbols, and over 100 templates to help you create custom boards and books, it facilitates communication and empowers users to participate, make choices, comment, and ask and answer questions - all completely free.
Here are just a few of the reasons why you’ll love Twinkl Symbols:
DESIGN AND CREATE
Over 8,000 symbols depicting a huge range of objects, emotions and scenarios, all broken down into categories, making it easy to navigate to the symbols you need.
Choose from colour or black and white symbols to suit your learners’ sensory needs and personal preferences.
Create your own symbols quickly and seamlessly using our bank of Twinkl Symbols or photographs from your camera roll, along with a collection of over 200,000 professional Twinkl illustrations.
Create your own folders to keep your custom symbols organised and easily accessible.
Highlight your favourite symbols so they’re instantly available for frequent use.
Over 100 ready-made templates so you can easily create personalised boards, flashcards, word banks and more.
Design and create your own communication books with multiple pages and a speech bar - you can incorporate your boards as pages if you choose.
Apply custom styling to your symbols as you add them to your boards.
Help children plan their days and routines with customisable symbolised timers, timetables, now and next boards, and more planning tools.
Reward chart and debrief chart templates enable you to help your learners better understand their feelings and behaviours.
SHARE AND COMMUNICATE
Type2Talk feature gives you a voice, creating audio and symbols from your typed words.
Choose from a wide range of adult and child voices to suit your needs.
Record your own unique voice to use within the app with Apple’s Personal Voice integration for a truly personalised experience. (Only available on iOS devices that support this feature.)
Create customisable buttons to record and play your own voice recordings or play specific phrases with Button Mode.
Paginated scroll views and intuitive swipe controls make it quick and easy for you to access the symbols and content you’re looking for.
Access personalised communication solutions on the go with your Apple Watch! You can add your custom creations and edit the displayed symbols straight from your watch, enabling you to communicate effectively anywhere, any time.
Back up and share your app content seamlessly between different iOS devices or with other Twinkl Symbols iOS app users.
Easily print your boards, books and more, directly from the app.
Visibility settings enable you to show/hide specific app categories, giving you total control to tailor the app to your needs.
A TRUSTED VOICE IN EDUCATION
Twinkl is the world’s largest educational publisher, trusted by educators all around the globe.
All the Twinkl Symbols app content was created by our specialist team of SEND expert educators.
The Twinkl Symbols app is accredited by the National Association for Special Educational Needs (Nasen).
Support is available 24/7 from the lovely Twinkl Cares team - and, yes, you can always speak to a real human!
The Twinkl Symbols app is currently free for Twinkl members and non-members alike. In the future, as the app grows, some features may only be accessible with a Twinkl membership or an in-app subscription.
We hope you enjoy using Twinkl Symbols, and we’d love to hear your feedback and ideas!
Privacy Policy: https://www.twinkl.com/legal#privacy-policy
Terms and Conditions: https://www.twinkl.com/legal#terms-and-conditions
What’s New
Version 3.0.11
Bug fixes & improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing!!
I have used Twinkl for years both for professional and personal use and love it but I only recently discovered Symbols. Now I am besotted! As a parent of a SEND child the app is so useful to have on my phone it is quick easy high quality yet simple to use. The option of printing out our own boards straight from the phone is massively time saving. The additional option of logging on via the Twinkl website is invaluable. Already I have used to create new boards for both my home and my classroom!
Thank you.
My only question is can I link up my Twinkl account and symbols app?
Developer Response ,
Hi there! Many thanks for reaching out and leaving such lovely feedback. We are so happy that you are enjoying the Twinkl Symbols for AAC app and that you are finding it so helpful. The Twinkl Symbols for AAC app is currently undergoing redevelopment and is due for relaunch very soon so watch this space for exciting new developments. Sadly this does not yet include the ability to link up your account with the app, but I will log your comments with our development team. Have a great day!
Brilliant app but not linked to an account
UPDATE in reply to developers comments:
Unfortunately being able to share boards doesn't help me as I am using custom symbols :(
This app is wonderful. It is the only one I have found (and I have tried many) which does everything I want it to do (except one thing - I'll get to that). I've been using it to upload my own symbols and photos, and create now and next boards and schedules. I love that it reads out the words when you tap them. Lovely user interface, the app looks great and runs really smoothly, it has never crashed on me. There are loads of built in symbols too. My one gripe? Everything is stored locally. Nothing is linked to any kind of account with Twinkle or anywhere else. That's a significant problem (and why I have only given 4 stars) because it means that anything I do on one device I have to do all over again if using a different device. A phone upgrade means I now have to start all over again from scratch :( I'd love to hear if this is a feature being worked on, because I feel I need to look at alternative apps to find one that links to an account as I don't want to have to rebuild everything whenever I change device.
Developer Response ,
Updated response - The Twinkl Symbols for AAC app is currently undergoing redevelopment and is due for relaunch very soon. Within the new, updated version there will be an option to create backups to share between there different devices which may assist you with the difficulties that you are experiencing. Just to note that this will only be available on iOS initially. I hope that this gives you reassurance that we are taking on board customer feedback and that we are working behind the scenes to make the app as easy to use as possible. Be sure to keep an eye out for future releases! Have a great day!
Hello! Many thanks for your lovely comments. We are so pleased that you are finding the app useful. With regards to your comments about information being stored to just one device, did you know that you can share resources between devices? All you have to do is find the resource that you would like to share and click on the 'Share' button. This will then display a share code which you will need to make a note of. On the second device click on the 'Use share code' button from the main menu page and type in the code which will bring up your resource for you! Hope that helps! Be sure to keep an eye out for future releases and complimentary resources available on our Website. As always, our TwinklCares team are available 24/7 if you have any questions or queries... they'll be very glad to help. Have a great day!
Thank you for this fantastic free resource
I work in Early Years at nursery level (which is notoriously underfunded) with non-verbal children. This resource is fantastic because it allows quick creation of visual supports, First/Then boards, visual timetables etc., with high quality graphics. Please keep this free. There is so little available for families and most pre-school educators which is not locked behind a paywall. I’m recommending this widely. Thank you!
Developer Response ,
Hi Leno85,
Thank you so much for your feedback, our Twinkl Symbols team is constantly working hard to illustrate more symbols (we now have more than 16000+!) and to develop more supporting resources. We are continuing to develop the Twinkl Symbols app and we hope you will enjoy what is to come in 2023. Thank you for all that you do as an educator, you are making a difference in the world :)
App Privacy
The developer, Twinkl Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Twinkl Limited
- Size
- 559.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Twinkl Ltd
- Price
- Free