Types of switch
Also called Switches, Accessibility switches, Sip-and-puff, Proximity switch, Blink switch, EMG switch
Buttons, pads, proximity sensors, sip-and-puff, blink and muscle sensors, matched to whatever the body can do reliably.
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 281–290 (page 29 of 31).
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Unaided communication
Also called Unaided AAC, Body-based communication
Signing, gesture, facial expression and vocalisation: every kind of communication that needs nothing but the body.
Using the phone
Also called Phone calls without speech, Telephone access
Banks, doctors and councils still want a voice call. Here are the ways round it for a person who cannot make one.
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Video relay
Also called VRS, Video relay service, Video remote interpreting, VRI, 999 BSL
Calling through a BSL interpreter on screen: how it works, when it is free, and where it falls short of an interpreter in the room.
Visual scene displays
Also called VSD, Scene displays, Hotspot displays, Photo scenes
A photograph with hotspots that speak. For people who think in situations rather than categories, including very young children and adults with aphasia.
Visual supports
Also called Visual aids, Visual strategies, Visual cues, Visual prompts
The general term for pictures, symbols, objects and written words used to help a person understand what is happening and what is expected.
Visual timetables
Also called Visual schedule, Picture timetable, Visual timetable, Daily schedule
The whole day in pictures, in order, on the wall, so that nothing is a surprise and nobody has to keep asking.
Vocabulary growth
Also called Vocabulary spurt, Word learning, Lexical development, Vocabulary explosion
How word learning speeds up after the first fifty, what feeds it, and why a device with 40 words on it starves it.
Vocabulary organisation
Also called Vocabulary layout, Vocabulary arrangement, AAC organisation
The ways a vocabulary can be arranged, and why the arrangement, not the number of words, decides what a person can actually say.
Voice banking
Also called Voice preservation, Personal synthetic voice, Custom voice
Recording your own voice while you still can, so that a synthetic voice can be built that sounds like you, and not like the tablet.
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