Blissymbolics Communication International

Interesting Places

Belgium

L'Association Bliss Belgique
and
Bliss Langage visuel destiné aux personnes handicapées de la parole Symbolisme international

Jabbla (MindExpress)

Brazil

Comunicar e Dizer: Facebook and Twitter

Jônatas Davi Paganini: Try Bliss and "semantografia e a linguagem bliss " at GitHub

Canada

Blissymboli cs Communication Institute Canada - BCIC

Vimeo blisspace’s Videos

The Semantography series by Charles K. Bliss, unique documents scanned in and shared by Brian Stride, friend of Mr. Bliss during his last 8 years in life.

Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University

Bloorview MacMillan

Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy

Talking Tiles

Germany

Ontology4 (by Hermann Bense, Dortmund, et al), and their very interesting integration of Blissymbolics in their ontology systems and visualisation tools

Hungary

Bliss Alapítvány

Iceland

Greiningar- og ráðgjafarstöð ríkisins - bliss

Bliss samvera í Bæjarhrauni

Deddi and MyTobii computer and Deddi & Axel with MyTobii computer

Ireland

Evertype.com - Bliss Unicode proposal

Italy

Mario Taddei - Blissymbolics

MisterBliss.it

Japan

「Blissymbol」に関連した動画の一覧

Mexico

Método Bliss: puente hacia la lectura y escritura para un alumno con discapacidad intelectual , Dirk Mackholt ; Celina Imaculada Girardi ; Revista Intercontinental de Psicología y Educación 2009, 11 (2)

Netherlands

Ghica van Emde Boas' Bliss Board app, developed in MIT App Inventor for Android devices

Handicom (Symbol for Windows)

Norway

ISAAC Norges Samleside for Bliss material
- with links to articles and books with Bliss
- training/teaching material for Bliss
- ... and more ...

At Statped you may find: "Bøker på bliss symbolspråk" - some of the same and more in the lefthand tabs - Fagbøker, Lettlestbøker, Barnebøker and Øvingsbok - lær å lese bliss

There you can also find Statped Bliss resources
- and if you search fro "bliss" you may find the following pages with Blissymbol translations of books in downloadable PDF format:
-> Lettlestbøker fra Damm forlag oversatt til Bliss
-> Temabøker til Fritt Fram 3 oversatt til Bliss

TurboDevs AS, developer of BlissBrain and initiator of BlissBase and other projects involving Assistive Technology, games and Blissymbolics:
Code on Github, BlissBrain on Facebook

Poland

Prototype (so far) Windows app with Blisymbols on YouTube by Michał Heliński
(turn on subtittles under the Settings wheel to get English comments)

iBlissymbols iPhone app by Jaromir Kopp

Polish movie "Chce sie zyc", with the English title " Life Feels Good", by dir Maciej Pieprzyca 2013 - about a boy with cerebral palsy who eventually acquires communication with Blissymbols -> Trailer on Youtube

Russia

Blissinfo - incuding the following links in English about Russian-Sedish cooperation in the Murmansk area:
http://www.blissinfo.ru/russia_sweden_en.php
http://www.blissinfo.ru/bliss_v_rossia_en.php

Singapore

Students at the Nanyang Polytechnic School in Singapore developed a prototype writing system for Blissymbols called Bl-ink. Short video demos are still available on Youtube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueOX3ChnWi0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl5fqk-9Yr4

Spain

Eneso Verbo is a Windows and Android application to create dynamic communication boards. Now gives access also to Blissymbols.

www.eneso.es/verbo/
www.eneso.es/verbo/pictogramas/

South Africa

Article about Louisa Albert's work with Bliss in Inclusive Solutions Newsletter

Sweden

BlissOnline

Språkbanken - Karp lexicon resource - with Bliss (now with Swedish and English look-up!)

Blissymbol Resources Page - with currently (2017) most complete and correct BCI Blissymbol lexicon resources - documentation, Bliss graphics file libraries etc.

Peter Ljunglöf (Centre for Language Technology):
Bliss-viewer demonstration
Bliss-word decomposition, analyses, recomposition and derived definition
GitHub repositories
Simplypedia - dynamically adding Blissymbol representation to Wikipedia content

Three videos from the National High School for students with physical disabilities in Göteborg:

Bliss project for adult Blissymbol users at Sunderby
- Blisshuset (facebook page)

Bliss user Natalie's "Pinkies blog" and video blog

Bliss user Sabina - Swedish newspaper article, and Sabina's blog

Newspaper articles 2015 (in Swedish): Louise speaks with symbols and
More Bliss-words needed (from BCI International Panel Meeting 2015)

Concept Coding Framework (CCF) bridging between languages and symbol systems: ConceptCoding.org - with CCF-SymbolServer and CCF SymbolWriter extension for LibreOffice/OpenOffice adding free support for Blissymbols and ARASAAC symbols in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer.

Special Access to Windows (SAW6) onscreen keyboard - free software found at SourceForge. Blissymbol diplays for SAW6 in English and Swedish among SAW Resources at OATSoft.

Blissbulletinen

DART

Switzerland

Blissymbols in Edutech-Wiki, by Daniel K. Schneider et al at TECFA, University of Geneva

United Kingdom

Blissymbol Communication U.K.

BBC 4 radio programme 2017: The Symbols of Bliss

About Manchester (about the above radio programme): Exploring the world of Blissymbolics

Dundee AAC Research Group

The Bliss-Dasher Project

Sensory Software - Blissymbolics for The Grid 2

The ACE Centre

U.S.A.

Radio Lab - on C.K.Bliss and Blissymbolics

Veteran US Bliss and BMW Bliss-Minspeak user Lee Mehrlich gives short YouTube presentation for PRC 50^th anniversary. Here is the transcript from Lee’s video:
“My name is Edwin Lee Mehrlich, but please call me Lee. I have had the PRC for 30 years with Bliss Symbolics. I made the first BMW with Shirley McNaughton. I had a book before PRC but my ECO2 gives me more freedom to talk.”

Eric Lee's Semantography site: www.semantography.soltechdesigns.com, among many other things offers a new and improved scanned version of C.K.Bliss's Semantography (180 MB) book.

(A searchable PDF version can be downloaded at:
www.symbolnet.org/bliss/semantography50_ocr_take3.pdf - 230 MB)

George Sutton's Symbols.net - Blissymbolics, and lots of new Bliss material at George's new site: Picture-Parts.com

Douglas Crockford:
Blissym , Blissymbolics Bibliography , Mister Symbol Man and the Herald of Doom

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