Smarty Symbols

Smarty Symbols was created by Barbara Fernandes, a licensed speech-language pathologist based in the US. The Smarty Symbols collection has been used by many app developers, online therapy service companies, school districts as well as by hundreds of Teachers Pay Teachers to create materials for their store. Over the last several years we have been proud to help make many projects come to life by providing the most clear and comprehensive set of images to their projects. Smarty Symbols have also been used to help many children communicate via several communication apps and software on the market. In 2014, Barbara and Jonathan Fernandes decided to found a company, Smarty Symbols LLC, and expand the reach of the Smarty Symbols library by allowing everyone a chance to use these symbols. The goals is to reach teachers, parents and children by allowing anyone to subscribe to our library and download images to use in classroom or home projects. Parents and educators wishing to create a product for personal use can now sign up for our standard license and download any of our images. We also offer commercial licenses. The image set is now available to be licensed to anyone wishing to create materials for sale. App developers, educators on the Teacher Pay Teachers website, or companies around the world now can enjoy the convenience of adorable images for their projects. Smarty Symbols are already present in several apps on the app store, bringing a modern, universal and diverse symbol set for all. Our team will continue to update our library, which will grow daily and soon it will become the most comprehensive symbol set available. Smarty Symbols has a modern, up-to-date, comprehensive and very transparent library. Vocabulary is organized into semantic and meaningful categories (such as food, animals, fruits, drinks, communication, expressions, and colors) and can be easily retrieved by the user. It features a low frequency vocabulary that cannot be found on competitors' symbol sets such as adult intimacy, college life, employment, and Internet and social media vocabulary. Smarty Symbols is also currently being translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Smarty Symbols will play a vital role in the communicative experience of children, teens, and adults with disabilities. We believe that children with special needs deserve choices and access to high-quality and modern visual support options. Smarty Symbols will be the future of visual support and it has already inspired users around the world to support student's communication and learning talents.