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As a publication offered through Oxford's Ace Centre, Richard Walters' in-depth guide to making your own talking books is written especially for those with no experience of multimedia creation. This guide covers the construction of books in Crick Software's Clicker. It also available for Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software and TAG Software's HyperStudio. The guide includes step-by-step instructions on how to scan pictures, add symbols, record speech and put together a talking book. Fully illustrated with screen shots, these guides are useful for teachers, parents and professionals who want to give young people access to any story.

(Permission to post: 2/19/02 by ACE (Aiding Communication in Education)
Centre Advisory Trust, Oxford)

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1: Introduction

What is the purpose of this guide?
Why do we need talking books?
Before you start

2: Important! The copyright issue

Joint Industry Guidelines

3: Getting your resources together

Creating a folder for all your resources
Creating pictures for your talking book
Creating symbols for your talking book

4: Setting up a template for your talking book

Opening a talking book template
Adding a picture to the first page
Adding text to the first page
Saving the first page
Creating and saving subsequent pages

5: Setting up a template to display symbols

6: Adding speech to your pages

7: Adding switch access

Connecting your switches
Adding simple non-scanning switch access
Adding scanning switch access

8: Getting creative with talking stories