Interesting Places
Belgium
L'Association Bliss Belgique
and
Bliss Langage visuel destiné aux personnes handicapées de la parole Symbolisme international
Gezin en Handicap - Ik wil vertellen – Communiceren is een grondrecht!
Brazil
Jônatas Davi Paganini: Try Bliss and "semantografia e a linguagem bliss" at GitHub
Canada
Blissymbolics Communication Institute Canada - BCIC
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.
The Bliss-TalkToo project funding page by Paul Marshall and Michael Greene
Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy
Denmark
En bruger fortæller (a user tells)
Bliss-symboler: Et sprog uden ord (Socialstyrelsen, Denmark)
France
Finland
Papunet - Bliss-portti - Bliss-porten
Germany
Ontology4 (by Hermann Bense, Dortmund, et al), and their very interesting integration of Blissymbolics in their ontology systems and visualisation tools
Hungary
Iceland
Greiningar- og ráðgjafarstöð ríkisins - bliss
Deddi and MyTobii computer and Deddi & Axel with MyTobii computer
Ireland
Evertype.com - Bliss Unicode proposal
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Ghica van Emde Boas' Bliss Board app, developed in MIT App Inventor for Android devices
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 BissBase and other projects involving Assistive Technology, games and Blissymbolics:
-> http://turbodevs.no/ , 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 Lousa Albert's work with Bliss in Inclusive Solutions Newsletter
Sweden
Information video on Youtube from the National Highschool for students with physical disabilities in Göteborg about their work with with Bliss and AAC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrybRDt6-wg
Bliss project for adult Blissymbol users at Sunderby
- Project webpage
- Project facebook page
- 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 OATSoft, or at SourceForge. Blissymbol diplays for SAW6 in English and Swedish among SAW Resources at OATSoft.
Peter Ljunglöf (Centre for Language Technology):
Bliss-viewer demonstration
Bliss-word decomposition, analyses, recomposition and derived definition
GitHub repositories
Wikipedia (English and Swedish) with Bliss (prototype)
Språkbanken - Karp - with Bliss (now with Swedish and English look-up!)
Switzerland
Blissymbols in Edutech-Wiki, by Daniel K. Schneider et al at TECFA, University of Geneva
United Kingdom
BBC 4 radio programme 2017: The Symbols of Bliss
About Manchester (about the above radio programme): Exploring the world of Blissymbolics
Bliss Meeting 2007 - University of Dundee Scotland
Owen Campbell-Moore - Javascript for Bliss
Sensory Software - Blissymbolics for The Grid 2
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 50th 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.”
George Koller's WorldWriter prototype - a novel way to explore and access the Bliss vocabulary
Eric Lee's brand new (2016) 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
International
Blissymbolics Language support group (on Facebook)
Concreta (Platform and journal for contemporary thinking on images): Introduction to BLISS for Two Voices with Chorus
idsgn - a design blog; Bringing Bliss to non-speakers
Blissificator (Andres Soolo) - prototype tool for creating Bliss text
Reference to the film about C.K. Bliss 1975 - Mr. Symbol Man
References to the book about the film about C.K. Bliss 1976 - Mr. Symbol Man (book)
Reference to a short cartoon about Bliss 1974 - Symbol Boy
The Wall Street Journal: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Turns 150 - For the anniversary of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ translations into Pashto, Esperanto, emoji and Blissymbols
ISAAC ( International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication)