Colours
Also called Colour words, Colour vocabulary
Useful, overtaught, and the most drilled words in special education. How to use colours for choosing and describing rather than for testing.
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 51–60 (page 6 of 31).
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Comic strip conversations
Also called Comic Strip Conversations, Conversation drawing, Stick-figure conversations
Drawing a conversation as stick figures, speech bubbles and thought bubbles, to work out what went wrong in it and what could go differently.
Commenting rather than questioning
Also called Comments not questions, Fewer questions, Testing questions
A question is a test with a right answer. A comment is an invitation with none. Count your questions for an hour and you'll see the problem.
Comments
Also called Commenting, Social comments, Opinion words
'That's funny', 'I like it', 'boring', 'wow': the words that make conversation rather than requests, and the reason people talk to you back.
Communication Access UK
Also called Communication Access Symbol, CAUK
A free online course for any business or service, and a symbol on the door that says the staff inside know how to communicate with you.
Communication aid
Also called Communication device, AAC device, AAC equipment, Electronic communication aid
The umbrella term for the equipment, and what a person is entitled to expect from one: assessment, provision, training, repair and a backup.
Communication assessment
Also called Speech and language assessment, SLT assessment, Language assessment
What happens when a speech and language therapist assesses someone, what a good report contains, and what to do with a bad one.
Communication at the GP
Also called GP appointments and AAC, Primary care communication
Ten minutes is not enough when every sentence takes a minute. You can ask for more, and the practice has a duty to give it.
Communication at work
Also called Workplace communication adjustments, AAC at work
Meetings, phones and colleagues all assume speech. The adjustments that fix them are cheap, and the law says you can have them.
Communication board
Also called Topic board, Situation board, Activity board, Choice board
One board, one situation. The quickest AAC to make and the one that lives on the fridge, in the bath and at the school gate.
Need the board, not the word?
Fiducia Talk is a complete AAC talking board, free forever with no account. Fiducia Life puts the same board inside a life, with the family on the same record.
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