This white (or black in dark mode) area is called the “Symbol Display Box”. This is where symbols will appear as you use the Symbol-It app.
1 of 7 End TourThe new “Button Row” lets you easily control and navigate Symbol-It with one finger
2 of 7 End TourWhen you press the microphone icon, your words are translated and displayed in the Symbol Display Box.
To stop, you simply press the button again. If you do not press it again, it will automatically stop after 59 seconds of symbolling.
3 of 7 End TourTake a photo and create your own personalized symbols. You can even edit the symbol later.
4 of 7 End TourEasily clear your display box and start over.
However, it is not necessary to press this icon to do so. The symbol display box will also clear if you simply press the microphone and begin recording a new message.
5 of 7 End TourAs your words are being translated into symbols, the text translation will appear here. Simply select the icon to view the text.
6 of 7 End TourTo open the Symbol-It menu and customize your Symbol-It experience, just click here.
To learn more about customization and personalization, check out our tutorials on YouTube.
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Symbol-It was designed to give you, the communication partner, a way to make language visible while engaging your symbol speaker. You speak verbally AND in picture symbols simultaneously so that the developing communicator sees the symbols and hears your speech simultaneously.
All communication partners: Parents, caregivers, emergency responders, educators, and therapists may all benefit from using Symbol-It, the first speech to symbol translator available for mobile devices.
Language is learned in naturally occurring environments and activities. Language is learned at home, at the playground, inside, outside, with family and friends, throughout life. Language is learned when we see and hear that language in meaningful ways.
Language through AAC should develop in the same way, and the symbol speaker should be given the opportunity to develop language naturally. This will require that the primary people in a symbol speaker’s life speak in the symbol system that is likely to be learned. According to O’Lenick and Garcia (2018), it is as if the speakers are speaking a language different from the individual and the individual developing language through AAC needs to figure out the symbols on his/her own.
We have sign language translators that provide a way for the signer to be able to learn sign language within their natural environment, but to date we have not had a way to speak in picture symbols in real time, in complete sentences, in all environments, for all different reasons, by all communication partners… until Symbol-It!
Dual-Symbol Immersion™ means that the learner needs and deserves to be spoken to in the symbol system they are likely to learn all throughout the day, in all contexts and environments, and in all types of activities. When immersed in the symbol system they are likely to learn, then and only then can the symbol speaker begin to develop language through AAC in a way that’s consistent with verbal language development.
Symbol-It is changing the conversation when it comes to AAC, putting a solution for speaking in picture symbols directly into the hands of families, friends, and therapists to better communicate with the symbol speakers in their lives. For the development of language in AAC, Symbol-It is an essential tool. When the goal is to immerse your symbol speaker to improve language outcomes, then the solution is to Symbol-It.
Understanding Dual-Symbol Immersion will help to understand the role that Symbol-It plays in language acquisition. The guiding forces through AAC are developmental learning theories and language development progression and milestones. Social learning theories (Vygotsky, 1979; Paul, 2013) describe that language is learned by being used in meaningful ways. Children learn language verbally by being talked to, and by their own developing expressive language being made meaningful by those around them. When applying these learning theories to language through AAC, an essential component is that symbol speakers will be spoken to and have the symbols used in combination with verbal language (O’Lenick & Garcia, 2018-2021).
Easily translate speech into symbols and communicate with the symbol speaker
The visual representation may be displayed for different symbol systems, for various vocabulary levels, and in different sizes, colors and more.
Symbol-It will be able to be projected from the iPad/iPhone, allowing for display in a classroom or conference room.
We at SymbolSpeak are dedicated to providing not only the best applications, but the highest standard of customer servce.
*If you have a current subscription to Symbol-It or Symbol-It Pro, you already own Symbol-It! Please contact us if you have any questions at hello@symbolspeak.co.
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