International Children’s Day
Posted on June 1, 2016
The first of June marks International Children’s Day and we thought we’d share some of our favourite, kid friendly grid sets with you!
So, in no particular order, lets kick things off with…
YouTube for Kids!
This fun, easy to use grid set offers individuals a simple, straightforward, all access way to use YouTube safely.
The grid set is ready to go with a selection of 9 popular categories to pick from.
YouTube for Kids is:
- A fun way to motivate individuals
- Suitable for all access methods
- Supports choice making
- A safe way to watch videos online
As well as being a great stand alone grid set, this grid set can be integrated within other grid sets and can be used with any alternative access.
Read more about YouTube for kids
Bedtime Story grid set
Within Grid 3, you will find a wide range of resources to enable everyone to experience the joy of a good story. Whether reading themselves using our Kindle grid set, listening to a good yarn with our Audible grid set or snuggling down with a bed time story thanks to our World Book Day grid set.
The bedtime grid set was designed with our little readers in mind, this grid set calls up 6 different YouTube videos of famous faces reading bedtime stories. Some stories and characters will be familiar, like Mog the cat up to her old tricks in ‘Mog in the dark’ and poor mummy elephant trying to find her ‘Five minutes peace’. Superworm and Emily Brown are newer faces with lots to say!
Download the Bedtime Stories grid set
Soundbox
The Soundbox grid set enables anyone who uses Grid 3 to start making some music. It is made up of three fun activities that can be controlled using any type of alternative access, including touch, switch and eye gaze.
The activities are designed to be ‘no-fail’ so everyone can enjoy using them. With bright and responsive visual feedback and some great funky loops, Soundbox is a fantastic, free addition to Grid 3.
Interactive Learning: Big Target
Interactive Learning in Grid 3 is a completely new way for people to learn and explore through animated activities and this grid set is designed to help those who face challenges in focusing and using the standard target size in the activity.
This grid set covers 4 key areas of learning over 25 fun and engaging animates activities Through encouraging play and interaction, the activities in Interactive Learning can help on those first steps to AAC by encouraging the user to chat about their experiences through the supporting language grid sets.
Download Interactive Learning: Big Target
And for the older ones…
Grid 3 comes with a fantastic set of inbuilt resources, our accessible apps, for teens, tweens and the young at heart.
Our Facebook integration give the user complete control of the world’s most popular social network. Effortlessly scroll up and down newsfeeds, post on a wall or talk to friends with Facebook Messenger, all from within our dedicated app.
Simple SMS
Sending text messages from Grid 3 is easy with this simple SMS grid set. Using an Android phone with Bluetooth, symbol users can now access SMS for the very first time with symbolised text messages.
Music and Video
Browsing an existing media library is now simple using Grid 3. Whether the user wants to watch a video, sort out photographs or listen to music in their library, its easy to browse, select and control the media.
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