Getting started with communication in 2021 Developing Templates
2020 will be remembered for a global pandemic but many shared knowledge and resources for free, including AAC materials.
December 09, 2025
Making February 2021 creative with Symbol Creator
Updating Board Builder and Symbol Creator for open licenced personalised symbols & images for charts and information sheets.
December 09, 2025
AAC Symbols to support more Languages
Adding more languages to Global Symbols and Board Builder - making it possible for symbol set owners to add translations.
December 09, 2025
Thoughts about developing easy to access printable training materials.
Building knowledge for the creation of information sheets and AAC charts with different symbol styles for diverse settings.
December 09, 2025
Welcoming new ideas for AAC symbol creation in 2023
Looking to the year ahead we are hoping we will have more resources to share and time to be creative with open licence innovations involving AAC symbols - think design and artificial intelligence!
December 09, 2025
Global Symbols to build AI-powered symbol generator with Microsoft AI for Accessibility grant
Helping to fill gaps in many open licenced AAC pictographic symbol sets to reflect diverse cultural values and languages.
December 08, 2025
Linking Information for Adaptive and Accessible Child-Friendly Courts
AAC users and those supporting them need help with the complex and often inaccessible world surrounding courts of justice.
December 08, 2025
AsTeRICS Grid meets Global Symbols
A netidee project has meant that the technical foundations for interaction between two successful platforms 'AsTeRICS Grid' and 'Global Symbols' has been laid. Soon it will be possible for everyone to easily share multiple open licenced AAC symbol sets by making communication boards in BoardBuilder and using them in AsTeRICS Grid or sharing the idea in a similar way with other apps thanks to their open source licencing.
December 08, 2025
Generating AI Symbols based on Topics
Working with Sensory App House enables us to create a wide range of topic categories using carefully defined GenAI prompts.
December 08, 2025