What is Communicate: In Print 2?

Communicate: In Print 2 in colour, is a Desk Top Publishing program for making printed worksheets and books. It has the benefit that it can easily support writing with pictures or symbols as an aid to literacy. It is provided with the Widgit Literacy Symbol set, that has some 7000 line drawings to support literacy in both colour and black and white. Print 2 also has over 1500 coloured graphics and photographs. These coloured pictures can be used on their own or put together to build scenes to illustrate writing.

The Widgit Literacy Symbol set can be used as a word processor, which allows you to create books, grids and much more. The program is all symbol based, which is great for visual learners. Adult and children learners can use this software to create story's, images and animations. Symbols is a direct way of communication, therefore Widgit symbols have designed a software specifically for written communication. It allows users to create words and images with the use of symbols. Each symbol represents a word, therefore when you type any word or letter a particular symbol will appear.

Instructions on how to use Communicate In Print 2:

The interface appears to have two modes: Create and Adjust. Different toolbars appear for each mode and to make it clear a different background colour is displayed behind your document. Create mode allows you to draw boxes and type text into them. Each time you type a word, a symbol relating to that word will appear allowing it to create a sentence with words and symbols. Whereas in Adjust mode, you can make adjustments to your images, this includes resizing, moving, painting and even grouping your images. Adjust mode is also used when you are inserting images and clipart from your documents.

One of the main features in this program includes being able to listen to your sentences. There are settings in Print 2 that lets you listen to your sentence by simply clicking on the speaker icon in the toolbar. Other features included: Pictorial spell checker, which displays alternatives words and images, varieties of speech bubbles that will bring a dialogue to life and also text and graphics boxes.