Developing and Using a Communication Book (DUCB) is a much-loved guide used by many carers, parents and professionals who need to make and use a communication book for people who are preliterate and rely on symbols to support their communication.
This fully revised second edition builds on all that was good about the original guide, incorporating the wealth of experience of the full Ace Centre team spanning nearly two decades since it was first developed.
Developing and Using a Communication Book Package
DUCB package contains several elements which include:
- Guidebook:Â presented in an A5 file
- Demonstration Pages:Â included in the guidebook
- Templates: Free to download for Boardmaker, InPrint and Mindexpress
- Training:Â Introductory and Developing levels from Ace Centre LearningÂ
Developing and Using a Communication Book Guidebook:
The guide offers clarity for parents, carers and professionals in developing communication books that progressively helps people to communicate an increasing number of messages.
The guide sets out:- An updated, stable core vocabulary that is available from every topic page to promote its use. The core vocabulary is developed through five stages and includes a newly simplified Stage One.
- Ideas for developing a fringe vocabulary that can meet an individual's interests, needs and varied environments, with plenty of examples included.
- A continued promotion of the communication of rich ideas through symbols rather than the production of grammatically correct sentences for face-to-face communication.
- A new approach to organising pages and accessing vocabulary with a suggested menu, tabs and supports for navigating around the book.
- The importance of a communication partner who is taught, through the guide, to use and model the symbols during communication and to support and scaffold the learner's own communication attempts.
Developing and Using a Communication Book Demonstration Pages
The DUCB Demonstration Pages included in the Guidebook contain example communication book pages that aim to bring to life the practices and principles described in the guide. It is designed to be used alongside the guide which provides detailed information about each stage, ideas around readiness, and aims for both the communication partner and the learner.
Developing and Using a Communication Book Template
Free downloadable files for creating, personalising and printing pages for a communication book. Templates are available to download and are compatible with:
- Boardmaker 6 and Boardmaker 7 for Picture Communication Symbols (PCS)
- InPrint 3 (download) and InPrint 4 (within the software template picker) for Widgit symbols
- MindExpress for PCS, Widgit and Symbol Stix
Please note: these files download as a .zip files. Please extract the individual template files before opening in your symbol software.
Vocabulary Worksheet
Support to help generate ideas about words and pages relevant to an individual which can be used to personalise or expand their communication book.
Guidebook
Printed A5 Manual including Demo Pages
£50
Boardmaker (PCS) Templates
Free downloadable files for creating, personalising and printing pages
MindExpress Templates
Free downloadable files for creating, personalising and printing pages
