The 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.
This board is an ordinary page: it displays, reads and prints without JavaScript. When JavaScript is working, touching a cell adds the word to the sentence and the voice on your device speaks it. Nothing you compose leaves this device.
Board settings
Scanning is started with the space bar or the Enter key, and so with any switch that sends either of them. One press starts the sequence, the next press selects: in “cell by cell” it takes the current cell, in “row then cell” it takes the row first, then the cell within that row. A row taken by mistake exits on its own: after one full pass with no press, the sequence returns to the rows.
The sequence contains the cells of the board, then the three commands of the sentence bar, as a last row: “Speak the sentence”, “Delete the last word” and “Clear all”. A sentence can therefore be built, corrected and spoken with the switch alone. The cursor can also announce itself aloud, cell by cell, through the setting above: this is what makes scanning usable without seeing the screen. One gesture still calls for something other than the switch: stopping scanning, with the Escape key or with the “Off” button.
yes
no
help
stop
me
I want
more
finished
it hurts
drink
eat
toilet
head
eyebrow
eyes
ear
cheek
mouth
lips
teeth
tongue
chin
neck
throat
shoulder
arm
elbow
wrist
hand
fingers
thumb
back
stomach
legs
hip
thigh
knee
calf
ankle
feet
skin
heart
healthy
itch
bump
cut
burn
This board belongs to the Mulberry module, kept apart from the rest of the service. Its symbols are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0: any board derived from this one is shared under the same licence. The other boards in Words Within Reach do not use these symbols, and are therefore not covered by this obligation.
The CC BY 4.0 licence announced at the foot of every page covers the texts of ODERSA, not these symbols: it is the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence above that applies to them, and it is more demanding. In case of doubt, that is the one that holds.
Symbols used by this board:
- Mulberry Symbols v3.6.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pictogrammes Mulberry Symbols (c) 2008-2017 Garry Paxton, (c) 2018-2020 Steve Lee - sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) - toute planche derivee de ces symboles doit etre partagee sous la meme licence
- Twemoji 16.0.1 · CC BY 4.0 · Pictogrammes Twemoji (c) 2014-2021 Twitter, Inc. et contributeurs ; (c) 2022-present Jason Sofonia & Justine De Caires - sous licence CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) - indiquer toute modification
Every set is checked against its licence file before any use. The full list is on The symbols and in licences.json.
Using this board
The top row is the same on every Words Within Reach board: its words always occupy the same place, in the same order. A hand that has learnt where yes is finds it in the same place everywhere, without having to look for it.
This page prints as it is: the sentence bar, the settings, the menu, the breadcrumb and the buttons disappear. What remains is the title, the grid, the labels, the licence of the symbols and the caution note: the last two must follow the board wherever it goes. A paper board never runs out of battery, and that is the reason it exists here.
To build your own board from this one, open My boards.
This board is a communication aid. Words Within Reach is not a medical device, not medical advice, and not a diagnostic tool. The words serve to name a part of the body, a sensation or a need: never to make a diagnosis or to describe a treatment. This service measures no one and assesses no one, and nothing you compose leaves this device.