PICTORIAL DICTIONARY
This pictorial dictionary is provided FREE.
Its main aim is to create consistency in the use of
pictures for KEY items/issues.
This will assist people with literacy needs to start to become familiar
with the same pictures for the same item or concept. The dictionary
is NOT meant to provide pictures for every item, but for KEY items &
issues that often come up in planning & meetings.
NOTE:
Pictures are either VALID originals or modified from or from
Sources of pictures on page 4. These sources also can provide
you with additional pictures.
In any PUBLISHED documents you MUST acknowledge these
sources by listing them in the document.
However, we would appreciate acknowledgement of this
dictionary in any major documents that you use the pictures
in, as this will assist to get the message out to others about
using consistent pictures
If you have any ideas for other common items or concepts you
feel should be in the dictionary, please contact
VALID 03 9416 4003 or
email: christine@valid.org.au
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Using the Pictorial Dictionary
TIPS:
1.
If more than one person is using the dictionary, then it
would be advisable to keep a copy as a master in case
someone with less computer skills accidently deletes
pictures.
2.
Given the aim of the dictionary is to encourage
consistency it is recommended that you use the same
picture for the same item or issue.
3.
Picture names in blue boxes are for use as
standard items on Agendas & Minutes.
4.
Picture names in green boxes are
images for ‘Rights & Responsibilities’.
date
advocate
INSTRUCTIONS
a)
Click on the picture you want (ensure has blue dots &
squares surround the pic before copying)
b)
Either click on ‘copy’ from the Edit Menu or use ‘Ctrl C’ to
copy the image.
c)
In the document you want the picture, click on ‘paste’ or
use ‘Ctrl V’ to paste in the image.
d)
Note that you should paste the image into the main part of
the page if you wish to move it later.
e)
That is, if you paste it into a table or text box it will not be
able to be moved.
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Font & Spacing
Not too Busy!!!!
Use point form
Min. 14pt Arial
not too ‘crowded’
this includes pictures
If possible use
Points remind to keep
it ‘to the point’
1.5 – 2 line spacing
Pictures / Photos
Points break up
blocks of writing
Avoid &/or Explain
Tangible
Jargon…. ‘person-centred’
Ramsay
Street
Acronyms… ISP; DSR
The abstract - ‘individualised’
Use ‘concrete’ examples,
ie. actual person or place
name….eg. residence –
use the house name
‘To You’
Provide….
Complex words - ‘innovation’
Choose pics for KEY
message/concept only
‘KISS’…..
ACRONYMS
Simple wording
A list of:
Short sentences
“We want to talk about
what you like to do”
Write to the person,
ie. “you can”
Developed by VALID (03) 9416 4003
An initiative of North & West Region.
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Terms
Acronyms
Ways to get more info
PICTURES SOURCES
Pictures in this dictionary have been sourced from the following:
NOTE: The aim of this dictionary is to provide key pictures that will create
consistency in depicting key items, concepts and activities. So there
will be a need to obtain other pictures and the following are good
sources for a comprehensive range of pics.
VALID Inc.
Original pictures created with Clipart.
Boardmaker software
P.C.S. (Picture Communication Symbols) © 1981-2006 by Mayer-Johnson LLC. All
rights reserved worldwide.
Available
Spectronics PO Box 88, Rochedale Q 4123
Phone: (07) 3808 6833 Fax: (07) 3808 6108
Email: mail@spectronicsinoz.com
web: www.spectronicsinoz.com
Softpics Software
© Innovative Communication Programming (Ylana Bloom & Dolly Bhargava)
9 Oaklands Ave, Beecroft, NSW 2119
Email: bloom@tig.com.au
Available:
www.innovativeprogramming.net.au
FREE SOURCES
Microsoft Free Clipart
Open a Word document then choose ‘Insert’ then choose ‘picture’, from the menu
select ‘clipart’. When the box opens click on the picture of the world in the bottom
right corner. This should take you to Microsoft free clipart site. Then ‘search’ for
the type of pic you are after.
Pictorial Communication Tools
Free downloads of ‘pdf’ pics available, including medical images.
From http://www.picturecommunicationtool.com/download.shtml
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A
Access physical
Accessible
Sign
accommodation
advocate
Afternoon tea
ambulance
Aids & equipment
Apologies
afraid
accident
Agenda
angry
apple
ATM
Australia
Australian
flag
5audit - check
award
B
Baby
Barriers
Bag
Banana
Bank
Bath
basketball
Bar
Bathroom
BBQ
Bed
bedroom
Biscuits – dry / sweet
bread
Brush &
shovel
Breakfast cooked
build
belt
beer
book
budgeting
bowling
bored
Breakfast
Cereal
birthday
Break
damage
Bus - public
6 transport
break
Bus - from a
service
braille
Brush
Business
Arising
C
cafe
cake
Card
Caring for
CD
CD - music
Choices –
using pics
Cigarette
camera
Cassette
Car wash
CD player
Chemist
Charter R&R
Church mosque
calendar
Chores female
City 7
cat
choice
Christmas
Clothes female
car
Catering provided
Chairperson
Chocolate
Chores male
cap
Change
Choices program
church
Clothes male
C page 2
Coffee
Comb
Communication
board
Coffee plunger
Coins
Coffee take-away
Communication
Device
Cold
Community participation
Community
W
W
W
Community
House
Confidentiality
Couch
Crossing
road
Complaint –
making a
Community
Visitor
Confidentiality
– of files/info
Counsellor
confused
craft
culture
Computer
Convention
RPD (UN)
Credit card
8
cut
Concession
Card
Cooking
Crockery
D
damage
dentist
Dinner time
doctor
date
Day Program
Or service
dessert
diary
dignity
Disability Act
Disco
dancing
dog
Drama
Drink - cold
Don’t ???
Dreams - male/female
Drink - tea
drunk 9
Discrimination
decision
Dinner Set
dishwasher
Don’t know
Dossette
Dress
Drink - hot
DVD
DVD player
E
Easy Read doc
symbol
electricity
end
Equality right to
Email
Excited
eaten
Easter
exercise
exercise
10
eyes
eating
F
Facebook
logo
factory
farm
file
fax
Filing
cabinet
Fire extinguisher
food
frustrated
Family female
fight
Financial
statements
Finances managing
Fire truck
football
finish
Forms - fill out
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fire
Flower
s
First
football
fun
Family - male
fruit
friends
G
games
Gardening water
glasses
gardening
Green bag
Good / Yes
Government
- federal
gopher
Grow
garden
Guide dog
12
Government
- State
H
haircut
handbag
home
hospital
hurt
Hair dryer
happy
house
hamburger
Hat winter
hat
House Sup
hot
Hungry Jacks
13
hand
health check
Hearing
loop
Housing
I
Ice-cream
ID Card - male
Ideas
ID Card - female
Information
BOOK/ report
Information GENERAL
Info pictorial
- give out
institution
ipad - using
Information pictorial
Internet
ipad
Ice-cream cone
14
iphone
Information
sheet
Information look at
Interpreter
Interview
ipod
J
jewellery
Job - male
Judges competition
Job - female
Judge legal
Junk food
15
K
Kentucky
Fried
kettle
Key worker
- female
keys
kitchen
Knock privacy
16
Key worker
- male
L
Laws
Legal
library
Local
Government
Learn
Light
Letter
List - check
Lock
Listen
Looking
Lounge room
17
Listening to
others
M
Magazin
e
Man
Meat
Manicure
Meeting large
Me - individual
Minutes
Morning
tea
Mail
Make-up
McDonalds
Massage
Meeting re.
individual
Meeting staff
Medical (health
check)
Microphone
- speak on
microwave
motel
Manager female / male
movies
18
Moving
house
Maintenance
- repairs
Meal
Meals on
Wheels
Meeting resident.
Meeting Board
medications
mess
Mobile
phone
money
music
Music CD
N
New ??? jumper
netball
(use tag & put on item
to depict at new)
newspaper
night
No / no good
notebook
No
No mobiles
notes
19
No fires
No smoking
O
office
Office building
Okay / yes
open
outing
orange
Ladies
Outing - for coffee /lunch
mixed
male
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P
Pack
party
pay
Petrol - fill up
picnic
policeman
Paint - leisure
pray
Personal space give me
Performance
Phone
Phone
pIzza
plan
Phone call
Present(s)
price
Parking /
meter
Paint - house
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people
physiotherapist
plane
Police car
Presentation–
female & male
Presenter –
female & male
privacy
program
priorities
Proud confident
Put away
purse
puzzle
Q
Quality Framework
Victoria
queen
Queensland
Questions
22
Question –
asking a
R
radio
Recycling
- bottles
record
Relax
Relax on
holiday
report
Red
Rooster
relationships
remember
respect
Rights &
responsibilities
rubbish
Read
rain
Respect - treated
like adult
rings
Rubbish - tidy
bin
Rubbish
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recycling
Read – minutes
female
/ male
Registration
Desk
Religion prayer
Return in
envelope
refrigerator
repairs maintenance
-
riding
role
running
rules
S
sailing
sad
sausage
Shopping groceries
saving
Stage show
Subway
restaurant
Shopping
centre
Speaking up
Staff /
support
sun/sunshine
stop
Shoes - male
sick
shower
spectacles
sport
Stove - gas
sunglasses
24
Safety - road
sandwich
Service or
Day Program
scissors
Shopping clothes
sleep
salad
sunscreen
Stove electric
Shoes female
Sign
language
standards
strong
swimming
T
Tablets
Talking
Taxi card
Thank you
Time – being
on time
Tram
Travel -by plane
tea - cup of
Teeth - brush
Thinking about
others - being fair
Thinking
Toaster
target
Tasmania
Touch don’t
Train
toilet
Transport
- general
Training
Twitter
25
TV
Taxi
teeth
tick
Tidy up
time
toothbrush
toothpaste
Transport
- public
TV - plasma
type
U
umbrella
untidy
upset
utensils
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V
vacuum
Vacuum female
Van - people
mover
Van - white
Video
cassette
Video
recorder
Volunteer
(Meals on Wheels)
Vacuum male
vegetables
visitors
Vote - ballot
box
Vote - ballot
paper
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valued
Victoria
W
Waitress
wallet
Waiter
Wash dishes
Washing
Washing
machine
Watering
Watch
Weather
Weigh
Welcome
Work female
(general)
Work male
(general)
world
write
Wheelchair
Water - bottle
Water
Website www
Win
Working - in
an office
28
Walking
frame
walk
Wedding
Woman
Working
together
who
X
x-ray
x-ray machine
29
Y
yacht
yell
Yes / good
yoghurt
Young Adults
30
Z
zoo
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