Motor planning in AAC
Also called Motor plan, Motor learning, Consistent placement, LAMP
Keep every word in the same place and saying it becomes a movement rather than a search, the way a typist never looks for the letter E.
Communication A to Z
AAC, core vocabulary, partner-assisted scanning, a communication passport. Meetings and leaflets are full of words everyone seems to know already. More than three hundred of them explained in plain English: what each one is, who it helps, and what you can do about it this week.
Please note: This page is general information about communication and the ways people are supported to communicate. It is not an assessment, a diagnosis or speech and language therapy, and it does not know the person you have in mind. If you are worried about someone's speech, language or communication, ask a GP, a health visitor or a speech and language therapist. In an emergency, call 999; if you cannot speak, Relay UK on 18000 or the emergencySMS service reach the same operators.
301 topics, showing 171–180 (page 18 of 31).
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Multi-modal communication
Also called Multimodal communication, Mixed-mode communication, Multi-modal AAC
One sentence may need a device, a sign and a raised eyebrow. That's not a failure of the device. That's how everyone talks.
Multi-message device
Also called Step-by-step communicator, Sequential message device, Multi-button recorder, Step-by-Step
Step-by-step and multi-button recorders, for telling a story in order or choosing between a handful of messages.
Multiple sclerosis and communication
Also called MS and speech, MS and dysarthria, MS and cognition
Speech, voice, word-finding and fatigue in MS: changes that come and go, and how to plan for the bad days without being defined by them.
Music and communication
Also called Music therapy, Singing and language, Rhythm and speech
Singing, rhythm and music therapy as routes into language, for people who cannot yet speak and people who have lost speech.
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Narrative skills
Also called Storytelling, Narrative language, Recounting, Oral narrative
Telling what happened, in order, with the point in it. It is what "how was school?" asks for, and it is the skill writing is built on.
Needs and wants
Also called Requesting, Wants and needs vocabulary, Manding
The vocabulary of asking is where every board begins, and where too many of them end. Why requests must not be the only words a person has.
Negation
Also called Saying no, Refusal vocabulary, Negatives, Protest words
Not, don't, stop, no more, go away. The words that give a person power over what happens to them, and the reason they must be on the board on day one.
Non-speaking
Also called Nonspeaking, Unable to speak
The word many people who do not use speech now choose for themselves, and why it replaced a label that got them badly wrong.
Now and next
Also called Now/next board, First-then board, Now and then board, First/then
Two pictures on a strip: what's happening, and what comes after. It answers the question every anxious person is silently asking.
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