Support young people with SEND

Encourage Regulation Strategies

You can use our software to write stories to help, behaviour expectations and classroom rules can aid young people understand the school’s behaviour policy.

Reduce Anxiety

You can use the ready made templates in our software to create visual timetables which will help young people understand the structure of their day.

Foster Independence

By creating symbolised worksheets and label diagrams in InPrint, you can help all young people to build independent learning skills.  

Pupil View

By using simplified, symbolised charts, you can create resources to find out how young people feel about school and their specific provision.

Transition Books

It’s simple to use your own photographs and images in our software to make transition books for young people.

Access to Curriculum

By using symbols across a whole range of templates you can increase access to text, allowing young people to be more independent.

Extend Vocabulary

By creating vocabulary flashcards and sheets, you can help extend vocabulary, support independent writing and topic learning.

Support Engagement

You can use the desktop publishing features in InPrint to create accessible worksheets for young people helping them to engage with the curriculum.

Support Literacy Skills

You can create symbol-supported stories, model texts, scaffolded tasks, instructions and information sheets to support learners who find decoding and / or comprehension challenging.  

Support EAL

You can create Dual Language resources, in Widgit Online, to support EAL young people learn English, be more independent and feel more confident in their environment.  

Stories to Help

The addition of symbols to a Story to Help can help with understanding and in times of particular stress can be a way of a child processing information more easily.

Emotion Support Resources

Resources can help children to recognise and manage their feelings so they can get themselves into a safe and regulated frame of mind

Pupil Voice

Using symbolised resources to help children to communicate their views to inform decisions that may affect them.

Mini Visual Timetables

Daily mini visual timetables can support a child with anxiety and provide information on the stucture of the day.

Illustrating Concepts

Using Widgit Symbols to illustrate the meaning of a concept can help young people learn and retain specific vocabulary more easily.

Board Games

The ready made board game templates in our software make it quick and easy to create symbolised resources to reinforce any learning activity.

Signage and Labelling

Symbolised signage and labelling throughout the classroom creates an environment where young people feel safe and secure and can access tasks independently.

Communication Labels

Pre-scripted and symbolised phrases can help support a non-speaking (or EAL) child to communicate their specific needs to staff.

Emotions

It's important to teach young people to identify emotions and strategies to help themselves when they are feeling a particular emotion. Using symbols to illustrate that emotion and provide practice tasks can be very helpful.

Sensory Breaks

Sensory breaks can prevent young people from becoming over-regulated. Symbols can be used to help the young person to engage in calming activities to self or co-regulate their emotions.