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Want to make your own switch adapted toys for Christmas? Watch Elf Paul literally eat his way through making some switch adapted Christmas Tree lights.
You will need:
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<li>A battery operated toy or set of Christmas tree lights that are battery operated (i.e. a simple switch turns them on or off)</li>
<li>A 3.5mm switch (available from any good AT supplier! e.g. <a href="https://www.liberator.co.uk/products/switches/switches">Liberator</a>, <a href="http://www.inclusive.co.uk/hardware/switches-and-switch-mountings">Inclusive Technology</a> )</li>
<li>A <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/kenable-3-5mm-Socket-Extension-Cable/dp/B011SSAUM0/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545132846&amp;sr=1-5&amp;keywords=3.5mm%2Bjack%2Bmono%2Bextension&amp;th=1">mono 3.5mm extension lead</a> that you are ready to cut down to size</li>
<li>Some double sided sticky pads or <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5mm-15mm-VHB-5952-Heavy-Duty-Double-Sided-Acrylic-Foam-Adhesive-Tape-Mounting/192736207208?hash=item2cdff92168:m:mJU0lJ-OmP_gFsq-vCwsvzQ:rk:6:pf:0">VHB tape </a></li>
<li>Some snips or wire cutters</li>
<li>A paper towel</li>
<li>&#8230;and a mince pie case!</li>
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Make your own switch adapted Christmas Tree lights

Encoded chart with ABC and numbers you can point to

Access to paper-based symbol resources when pointing is difficult

Clues Book

Listener Mediated Scanning ABC Chart Pack

Coaching Communication Partners

Pragmatic Auditory Scan Communication Book

Editable templates for creating a Pragmatic Auditory Scan Communication Book designed to support individuals who find pointing difficult by offering an auditory partner assisted scanning to express messages. Flexible and easy to personalise, the resource follows a pragmatic organisational structure and can be edited in Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides. Includes both colour and monochrome versions, plus an introductory help sheet.
This is an updated version (2026).

Appraising an AAC Resource in a Language You Do Not Speak

Language Questionnaire

TextAloud

SpeakBook

Please note: The Microsoft Word template included in the download was designed for use in the desktop app. Using it in the online version of Word may cause formatting issues. There is also a PDF version available. 
When printing you can choose double-sided and select “flip on short edge” to create a correctly oriented booklet.

Practical Tips when working with AAC Users who communicate in Languages Other than English

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<div>This helpsheet was created by a group of AAC Practitioners who work in NHS England Specialised AAC services. It offers practitioner-informed tips to support equitable practice across languages, outlining foundation and enhanced skills as a flexible starting point for ongoing learning and development.</div>
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Speakbook is a simple communication tool that was developed by Patrick Joyce who had Motor Neurone Disease (MND / ALS). Understanding the progression of his condition and the needs of others, Patrick realised that there was a need for a cheap and easy-to-use way of communicating for people who are able to read and spell and can move their eyes, but struggle to point with their finger or hand.
Speakbook is a template for a communication book which you populate with your own messages.  It also provides access to an alphabet chart. While originally developed with MND in mind, Speakbook can be useful for anyone who is literate and requires a communication tool that they can access with their eyes. (<a href="https://acecentre.org.uk/project/speakbook/">For more information &#8211; see here</a>)
<h2>With thanks to:</h2>
English &#8211; With thanks to Suzanne Guerin and her colleagues for finding the mistake with the circles/triangles and cyan/green dots!
Turkish &#8211;  Ersin Sinay
German &#8211; Julius Deutsch, kommhelp e.V., Michael Ritson, Ace Centre, UK.
Afrikaans &#8211; Emma Emmerich, Inclusive Solutions.
Portuguese &#8211; Hélio Lourenço, Ace Centre UK
Maltese &#8211; Martina Zarb, Mariah Amber Busuttil, Jamie Said, Access to Communication and Technology Unit (ACTU), Malta
Bulgarian &#8211; Evgeniya Hristova
French &#8211; Michael Ritson, Ace Centre, UK.
Zulu &#8211; Sipho Sibanda, Inclusive Solutions
Arabic &#8211; Hossein Amin, Iraq.

Bulgarian

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Turkish

Portuguese

Maltese

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English

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Pragmatic-based Auditory Scan chart

AEIOU layout for row column Listener Mediated Scanning

Makaton Level 1: Foundation Level – Introduction to Makaton

Designing and using alphabet charts

High contrast ABC flip book - for Listener Mediated Scanning

PDF Black text on yellow background

Word Template Black text on yellow background

PDF Yellow text on red background

Word Template Yellow text on red background

Key Features:
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<li>Read text by paragraph, word or sentence</li>
<li>Quickly switch between different languages</li>
<li>Access over 400 voices in 100 different languages</li>
<li>Import your own text documents</li>
<li>Full library of help videos</li>
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TextAloud is a brand new iOS App developed by Ace Centre! It is a text-to-speech app which reads any text you enter into to it.

Getting Started with AAC and Literacy

Supporting Literacy with AAC

Getting Started with Yes/No

AAC in Action: Festive Season

For more information about creating symbol based materials click <a href="https://acecentre.org.uk/resources/getting-started-with-paper-based-symbol-resources">here to access our Getting Started with Paper-Based Symbol Resources eBook</a>
<a href="https://acecentre.org.uk/resources/all?category=symbol-charts">Click here to download free symbol based AAC charts featuring core words.</a>
<a href="https://acecentre.org.uk/learning/search?category=communication">Visit Ace Centre Learning for live and on demand training courses on introducing symbol based AAC here</a>

Getting Started with Core Words

This leaflet is a starting point for introducing the concept and importance of core words to people who are creating symbol based AAC materials.
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This is a FREE online taster webinar to introduce you to Ace Centre&#8217;s popular Developing and Using a Communication Book resource.

How to Develop and Use a Communication Book (DUCB)

FUNctional Switching

Access Methods: Switch

Snap!

Echo

Please note this is an update of the Ace Centre resource &#8220;Switch Assessment and Planning Framework.&#8221;

Framework for Switch Assessment

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This resource pack offers practical tools to support professionals and people with physical disabilities identify the most effective switch access solutions through a structured process of information gathering, assessment, and action planning. It emphasises person-centred, multidisciplinary assessment and recognises that switch access needs may evolve over time, requiring ongoing review and collaboration.
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Hit your switch when you find two images that match. There are lots of themes to choose from as well as uploading your own images.
<a href="https://backend.acecentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Ace-Centre-Christmas-Snap-Instructions.pdf">Checkout this help sheet to learn how play Snap with your switch.</a>
Why not try it out with our free EyeCommander eye blink switch app?  <a id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" title="https://acecentre.org.uk/blog/introducing-eyecommander" contenteditable="false" href="https://acecentre.org.uk/blog/introducing-eyecommander">Introducing EyeCommander | Ace Centre</a>.

A fun and engaging switch accessible game made by Ace Centre.

<div>This pack includes:</div>
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<li>3 pages for sentence building</li>
<li>1 symbol Choice Board: Spring Things</li>
<li>1 symbol Choice Board: Descriptions</li>
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Spring Writing

<div>This symbol supported resources is based on the principles of Predictable Chart Writing,  a process for pupils with emerging literacy skills.</div>

Ace Centre E-Tran Frame

Coded ABC chart you can point to

Number encoded ABC you can point to

Colour encoded ABC you can point to

Combination access ABC

Alphabet Chart Pack - charts you point to

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Check out <a href="https://youtu.be/fCgGy8dFIFE">this video</a> to learn about the eBook features
Find videos and support materials if you or are a family member requires solutions to help communicate due to a progressive condition such as MND/ALS, PSP, MS, Parkinson&#8217;s disease.
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Paper-based resources to support Communication for Adults with Progressive Conditions

This guide provides information about paper-based tools and strategies that can support communication if speech is becoming or has become difficult due to an acquired progressive condition. It is written for people living with such a condition and also for family, carers and relevant professionals.

Hit your switch when you find two Christmas images that match. There are other themes to choose from as well as uploading your own images.
<a href="https://backend.acecentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Ace-Centre-Christmas-Snap-Instructions.pdf">Checkout this help sheet to learn how play Snap with your switch.</a>
Why not try it out with our free EyeCommander eye blink switch app?  <a id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" title="https://acecentre.org.uk/blog/introducing-eyecommander" contenteditable="false" href="https://acecentre.org.uk/blog/introducing-eyecommander">Introducing EyeCommander | Ace Centre</a>.

Christmas Snap!

A fun and engaging switch accessible game made by Ace Centre with a festive theme.

Getting Started with Paper-Based Symbol Resources

Communication Partners

AAC in Action: Autumn Festivals

Simon Says... Sing a Carol!

AAC in Action: Tasty Traditions

Easter Egg Hunt

Getting Started with Modelling

Modelling, aided language stimulation, point talking – are different ways of saying the same thing: that it is important to point to symbols while you talk to someone who is using symbols to communicate.
This leaflet is a starting point for introducing the concept and importance of modelling for communication partners who are supporting someone learning to use symbol based AAC systems.
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Please note: The Microsoft Word template included in the download was designed for use in the desktop app. Using it in the online version of Word may cause formatting issues. There is also a PDF version available.

<div>The Language Questionnaire: Understanding the AAC needs of people who communicate in languages other than English is a practical, conversation‑based tool designed to help professionals gather essential information about a person’s language use, literacy skills, and AAC requirements.  It supports effective assessment for multilingual AAC users of all ages.</div>
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Throughout our work there are many many unanswered questions; Whats the best way? Whats the fastest? What works for a client and why?
The problem is many of these questions are either hard to answer – or require a long detailed research study. Well we have one such question to do with our ongoing work supporting people who we assess to use morse code; Whats the fastest way of learning it? If you speak to traditional Morse users they largely say “Auditory” “You can’t use it fast unless you have heard it”. What they traditionally mean is the dot and dash sounds – because a lot of people use it for amateur radio operating where this is the medium. But – if you are using it to write – without hearing the sound – is it really auditory?
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030802269405700405">A study looked at this</a> – and concluded a mixed approach was probably best – and interestingly that auditory alone wasn’t useful.  But the sample was small and the cues not that engaging. So how can we easily fix this?
Well we have taken the morse-learn game that Google made – and further developed it. Mainly:
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<li>Adding Auditory cues</li>
<li>Adding Visual cues that match the auditory cues (Download posters and cards if you need them in different colours: <a href="https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/HelloMorse-Poster-Cards-AllColors/HelloMorseAce-Poster-Cards-Blue.pdf">Blue</a>, <a href="https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/HelloMorse-Poster-Cards-AllColors/HelloMorseAce-Poster-Cards-Green.pdf">Green</a>, <a href="https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/HelloMorse-Poster-Cards-AllColors/HelloMorseAce-Poster-Cards-Orange.pdf">Orange</a> or <a href="https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/HelloMorse-Poster-Cards-AllColors/HelloMorseAce-Poster-Cards-Peach.pdf">Peach</a>)</li>
<li>Provide the ability to turn on/off these cues – along side the dot/dah sound</li>
<li>And we can keep track of your learning – anonmously – to see how fast users take to get through the game. We honestly can’t track anything more – not your location, not your hobbies or dogs name. Just how fast it takes you to learn – and with what settings you are using. (If this means something to you  – take a look at the code <a href="https://github.com/AceCentre/morse-learn">https://github.com/AceCentre/morse-learn</a> )</li>
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By having no authentication and making this truly open to anyone (and most important of all – FUN!) we hope to gain a greater understanding of how fast it takes people to learn morse.
Tips:
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<li>Use chrome if you can. Its slightly less buggy (backstory: It was a chrome only experiment. We’ve done some work to make it as work as well as we can on safari/iOS but its not without some issues still)</li>
<li>Stick to one device. As we have no login system we can’t migrate you from one device to another.</li>
<li>Please try and stick with the settings you are given. These are randomised to make sure a random sample of people are provided different options</li>
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Check it out at<a href="https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/"> https://morse-learn.acecentre.net </a>

Morse Learn

Morse Learn is a game to enable everyone to learn morse code by attaching mnemonic cues to letters. It has auditory and visual cues so is accessible to both blink and deaf users.mnemonic

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