Devon County Council

Symbols are used widely to help children and adults with learning difficulties. Their use ranges from helping children who have difficulties learning to spell, through to children and adults who are not able to use traditional text as a means of reading and self-expression.

Here are a collection of symbols, not all of which are Widgit symbols (see below), but you are free to copy and paste them into documents:

• Symbols - General
  
  
• Symbols - Advocacy and Communication for Everyone (ACE)
  
  
• Symbols - Valuing People
  

See also:

• Widgit Software Ltd, a Special Educational Needs software company. Offers some free resources and is a mine of information and ideas for using symbols, with many click through pages of explanation.
  
  Widgit Software have developed software that can turn text into Widgit Symbols. Our Devon Libraries page on Computers adapted for specific needs has more information on where this program can be tried.
  
  

• One should also check the Widgit copyright page about the use of copied symbols.
  
  
• www.symbolworld.org is also part of the Widgit Software set up and is a web site for symbol readers to share their own ideas and stories.
  
  
• The Through-the-Maze Information Service have a great web site full of useful symbols to download.
  
  
• The Makaton Vocabulary Development Project at www.makaton.org and our Devon Libraries - Makaton resources page.   
  
  
• www.easyinfo.org.uk - 'making information easier for people with learning difficulties'
  
  
• You'll find further suggestions on the Resources page of the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities.