Somebody hands you a leaflet that says AAC. A review mentions partner-assisted scanning. A ward asks whether your dad has a communication passport. Everyone else in the room seems to know what these words mean, and asking feels like admitting you're behind. You aren't. This library explains each one plainly: what it is, who it helps, how it works, and what you can do about it this week. Search by the word you heard.
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.
28 topics filed under P, showing 21–28 (page 3 of 3).
Also called PBS, Positive behavioural support, Functional assessment, Behaviour support plan
PBS starts from the fact that behaviour is communication, and treats giving the person a better way to say it as the first intervention, not the last.
Also called PODD, Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display, Pragmatic branch starters
Organising words by what you want to do with them, ask, tell, complain, rather than by category. PODD is the design everyone has heard of.
Also called Social communication, Social use of language, Pragmatic language
Using language socially: taking turns, staying on topic, knowing what to say to whom. The rules nobody teaches and everyone is marked on.
Also called Presumption of competence, Least dangerous assumption
Start from the assumption that the person understands. If you're wrong, you lose little. If you assume the opposite and you're wrong, you've cost them years.
Also called AAC privacy, Data privacy, Message logging, Data logging
What a device or app stores about what you say, where it sends it, and who can read it. The answer is often more than the person was told.
Also called PMLD, Profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, PIMD
Communicating with people at the earliest stages of intentional communication, where the partner does most of the work and every response is a real one.
Also called Personal pronouns, I and you, Possessives
I, you, me, mine: often missing from vocabularies and essential to identity. Without them a person can name everyone in the room except themselves.
Also called Intonation, Stress and rhythm, Suprasegmentals, Tone of voice
The music of speech: stress, rhythm, pitch and pace. It carries the question mark, the sarcasm and the feeling, and it is what a synthetic voice loses first.
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