1. Arabic Symbol Dictionary Research Project Progress Funded by 2. Participatory Research http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blog/symboldictionary/a-participatory-approach-to-research/ 3. AAC Communication and Literacy Skills http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blog/symboldictionary/aac-dictionary-for-functional- communication-skills-as-well-as-literacy-skills/ 4. Multiword phrases and core vocabularies http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blog/symboldictionary/debating-multiword-phrases-and-core- vocabularies/ Picto-Selector showing some ARASAAC and Sclera symbols for multiword phrases with put Picto-Selector showing some ARASAAC and Sclera symbols for multiword phrases with put 5. Creating messages compared to building sentences Go Talk for communicating messages Proloquo2go with sentences http://www.assistiveware.com/product/proloquo2go 6. Comparing symbol dictionaries using an English Core Vocabulary http://symbolmanager.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ 7. Login to the Symbol Manager http://symbolmanager.ecs.soton.ac.uk/login If you do not have a login and are interested in participating in the research please contact the team. 8. Symbol Manager 9. Start Voting Select the thumbs up for yes and thumbs down for no and please give your reasons by ticking the check boxes and making a comment when the pop-up dialog box appears. 10. Online forum for discussion Send emails to the group at asd-list@lists.soton.ac.uk This is a closed list so only those who have joined the AAC forum will see your emails 11. Thank you http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blog/symboldictionary Dr Amal I. Ahmad and Amatullah Kadous Hamad Medical Corporation (Qatar) Speech Therapy Department, E-mail: aahmad2@hmc.org.qa, tullahk@hotmail.com David Banes and Aejaz Zahid, MADA (Qatar Assistive Technology Center), E-mail: azahid@mada.org.qa Dr Mike Wald, E.A. Draffan and Nawar Halabi University of Southampton (UK), E-mail: ead@ecs.soton.ac.uk, mw@ecs.soton.ac.uk