Pictures/Clipart
(updated June 9, 2020)
Many wonder where they can find "pictures" on the Internet that can be used to make their own therapy materials. One way is to use the Image Search function on various search engines. Although many are copyrighted and should not be used to add graphics to commercial products or to web pages without permission, they can be used for personal teaching purposes.
- royalty free images
- Developing materials and activities with clip art
- One Cut Book (https://www.laurenstringer.com/uploads/2/5/6/4/25641572/make_a_six-page_book_out_of_one_sheet_of_paper.pdf) - instructions how to make a one-cut book.
- PocketMod - a template for a personal organizer one-cut book. Many options for calendars, writing guides, organizers, games, etc.
- Samples of one-cut books
- Several one-cut books (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/onecutbooks/onecutbooks.html) created by Judy Kuster's students
- Mini-Books for Language (web.archive.org/web/20091203102324/http://www.patrickecker.org/minibooks.htm) by Patrick Ecker
- Articulation one-cut books (http://www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm) open any of the "sound" files in the drop-down menu and then open "mini-book.
- Taping pictures around the room to find with a flashlight, paste on "fish," or on bugs and use a fly swatter.
PowerPoint and most word processing programs have clipart files. There is also clipart software that you can purchase. However, there are also many sites on the internet that have a lot of pictures that could be adapted for therapy materials if you want to download some of the free gifs/jpegs and print it out. The Tutorial on how to download clipart (http://webclipart.about.com/od/tutorialshelp/l/blhelp7.htm). is helpful if you don't know how to do this. Adding graphics to a word document (in the newer word programs) is as easy as word processing. Some sites to check out:
- Augmentative and alternative communication by Patrick Ecker has lots of beautiful, free clip art
- Classroom Clipart (http://classroomclipart.com/)
- Absolutely Free Clipart (www.allfree-clipart.com)
- Barry's Clip Art server (www.barrysclipart.com/)
- Best Clip Art (www.bestclipart.com/index.html)
- Brian Brasher's collection (www.bry-backmanor.org/ikthusian/ikthusian.html)
- Clipart.com (www.clipart.com/) provides links to many, many clipart sites
- Leo's Icon Archive (www.iconarchive.com/)
- Original Free Clipart (www.free-clipart-pictures.net/)
- Clip Art Gallery (http://www.cyberbee.com/bts_sites.html)
- EduPic (http://www.edupic.net/index.html) free image resource for educators and their students
- Index to Phillip Martin's Clip Art - hand-drawn, colored drawings free for non-profit use (http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage2.htm)
- Image search engines
- Google Image Search (http://images.google.com/)
- Bing's Images (www.bing.com/images?FORM=Z9LH)
- Flickr
- Use an image search or any clip art sites to find pictures and add sounds from Find Sounds search engine (www.findsounds.com) or Sound Bible (http://soundbible.com) to make your own interactives.
