The ready-made boards
A catalogue of boards to touch to build a sentence, or to print directly, with no account.
Every board is an ordinary page: it displays, reads and prints without JavaScript. Nothing composed on it leaves the device.
Choose a board
Each card opens a board ready to use or to print. The catalogue brings together 11 boards, grouped by module, drawing on a vocabulary of 329 words.
Yes, no and the everyday words
The words needed everywhere: answering, greeting, asking, saying that you are all right or that you are not.
Open the boardThe body and pain
The words for saying where it hurts, how it hurts, how much, and in what position.
Open the boardEating and drinking
Everyday food and drink, hunger, thirst, and the words for saying what you like to eat.
Open the boardAt the doctor’s, in hospital
The words for naming the people, the objects and the actions of care, and for saying what you need.
Open the boardAt school
The words of the classroom: the people, the objects, what happens there, and ready-made phrases for asking without searching for words.
Open the boardEmotions
The words for saying how you feel: happy, sad, angry, calm, and other emotions, with how strong they are and what helps afterwards.
Open the boardEmergencies
The messages to show at once to call for help, answer quickly, and say what is needed right now.
Open the boardPeople and places
Family, friends and neighbours, the places of everyday life, how to get there, and the words for saying where you are.
Open the boardThe day: getting dressed, washing, the time of day
Getting dressed, washing, saying the time of day, and the words for getting up and going to bed.
Open the boardThe Mulberry module, under ShareAlike
Everyday actions
The everyday verbs that no emoji can say: get up, open, give, tidy up, choose, act on the objects around you.
Open the boardThe body and health, in communication symbols
The words for naming a part of the body or a sensation, never for making a diagnosis or describing treatment.
Open the boardWhat all the boards have in common
On every board in the service, the same twelve cells occupy the top of the grid, in the same order, in the same place. A hand that has learnt where a word is finds it in the same place on any board, without having to look for it again.
This layout never changes from one board to another, including in the separate module presented below.
The Mulberry module
Some boards use a symbol set designed for augmentative and alternative communication, published under a licence that requires any modified version to be shared under the same terms. These boards are kept apart from the rest of the catalogue, and each one shows its licence on its own page. A board built from a board in the Mulberry module is therefore shared under the same licence. The other boards in the service do not use these symbols.
The detail of the symbol sets and their licences is on The symbols, and the licence of the service on Licence and re-use.
Print a board
Every board prints straight from the browser, with no extra software. A paper board never runs out of battery. Practitioners and publishers of augmentative and alternative communication software recommend keeping a paper backup within reach.
A ready-made board serves as a starting point for the rest of the service.