Twinkl Symbols AAC System

Welcome to Twinkl Symbols, a fantastic AAC communication system brought to you by the world’s largest educational publisher. Accredited by Nasen, Twinkl Symbols enables you to create, teach, learn and communicate using visual representations.
This app is designed to open a whole new world of communication for and with children and adults who have SEND and/or speech, language and communication needs. With over 8,000 professionally-designed and illustrated symbols, and over 100 templates to help you create custom boards and books, it facilitates communication and empowers users to participate, make choices, comment, and ask and answer questions - all completely free.
Here are just a few of the reasons why you’ll love Twinkl Symbols:
DESIGN AND CREATE
Over 8,000 symbols depicting a huge range of objects, emotions and scenarios, all broken down into categories, making it easy to navigate to the symbols you need.
Choose from colour or black and white symbols to suit your learners’ sensory needs and personal preferences.
Create your own symbols quickly and seamlessly using our bank of Twinkl Symbols or photographs from your camera roll, along with a collection of over 200,000 professional Twinkl illustrations.
Create your own folders to keep your custom symbols organised and easily accessible.
Highlight your favourite symbols so they’re instantly available for frequent use.
Over 100 ready-made templates so you can easily create personalised boards, flashcards, word banks and more.
Design and create your own communication books with multiple pages and a speech bar - you can incorporate your boards as pages if you choose.
Apply custom styling to your symbols as you add them to your boards.
Help children plan their days and routines with customisable symbolised timers, timetables, now and next boards, and more planning tools.
Reward chart and debrief chart templates enable you to help your learners better understand their feelings and behaviours.
SHARE AND COMMUNICATE
Type2Talk feature gives you a voice, creating audio and symbols from your typed words.
Choose from a wide range of adult and child voices to suit your needs.
Record your own unique voice to use within the app with Apple’s Personal Voice integration for a truly personalised experience. (Only available on iOS devices that support this feature.)
Create customisable buttons to record and play your own voice recordings or play specific phrases with Button Mode.
Paginated scroll views and intuitive swipe controls make it quick and easy for you to access the symbols and content you’re looking for.
Access personalised communication solutions on the go with your Apple Watch! You can add your custom creations and edit the displayed symbols straight from your watch, enabling you to communicate effectively anywhere, any time.
Back up and share your app content seamlessly between different iOS devices or with other Twinkl Symbols iOS app users.
Easily print your boards, books and more, directly from the app.
Visibility settings enable you to show/hide specific app categories, giving you total control to tailor the app to your needs.
A TRUSTED VOICE IN EDUCATION
Twinkl is the world’s largest educational publisher, trusted by educators all around the globe.
All the Twinkl Symbols app content was created by our specialist team of SEND expert educators.
The Twinkl Symbols app is accredited by the National Association for Special Educational Needs (Nasen).
Support is available 24/7 from the lovely Twinkl Cares team - and, yes, you can always speak to a real human!
The Twinkl Symbols app is currently free for Twinkl members and non-members alike. In the future, as the app grows, some features may only be accessible with a Twinkl membership or an in-app subscription.
We hope you enjoy using Twinkl Symbols, and we’d love to hear your feedback and ideas!
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