Fiducia TalkPhonemes
Also called Speech sounds, The 44 sounds, 44 phonemes
The roughly 44 sounds of English, which its 26 letters do not match. Every phonics programme, and the Talk board's phonics keyboard, is built on them.
Communication A to Z
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.
301 topics, showing 201–210 (page 21 of 31).
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Phonics keyboard
Also called Sound keyboard, Grapheme keyboard, Phoneme keyboard, Sound-by-sound keyboard
A keyboard of sounds rather than letters, so a word can be built the way it is heard, before the person knows how it is spelled.
Phonological delay
Also called Phonological processes, Immature speech patterns, Fronting, Stopping, Cluster reduction
Speech patterns that belong to a younger child: what fronting, stopping and cluster reduction are, when they should have gone, and what home practice actually looks like.
Phonology
Also called Speech sound system, Phonological development, Phonological awareness
The sound system of a language: which sounds it uses, how they combine, and the rules children apply while they are still learning it.
Photographs or symbols
Also called Photos vs symbols, Symbol hierarchy, Iconicity, Real pictures or symbols
Whether to use photographs, coloured symbols or plain line drawings, for whom, and why the right answer changes as the person does.
Picture symbols
Also called Symbols, Graphic symbols, Communication symbols, Pictograms
What a communication symbol is, how it differs from a picture, and why the difference decides whether someone can say anything new.
Places vocabulary
Also called Location words, Places set, Where words
Home, school, hospital, outside, and the words for going there. Why 'where' and 'go' turn a list of places into a way of saying what you want to happen next.
Play and language
Also called Play-based language learning, Symbolic play, Pretend play and language
Language grows in play, not in drills. How it happens, and how to play with a child who communicates differently without turning it into a lesson.
Positive behaviour support
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.
Pragmatic organisation
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.
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