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.
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Also called SLT referral, SALT referral, Speech therapy referral, Self-referral to speech and language therapy
How to get a child or an adult seen by an NHS speech and language therapist, who can refer, and how long the wait really is.
Also called Sex and relationships and AAC, Intimacy vocabulary, Consent words
Words for love, sex, bodies and boundaries. Every adult has the right to them, and the ones who lack them are the least safe.
Also called Text relay, Next Generation Text, NGT, 18001, Typetalk
A free service that turns a phone call into text, so a person who cannot hear or cannot speak can call anyone, including 999.
Also called Conversational repair, Communication repair, Repair, Clarification strategies
What both of you do when a message hasn't got through: say it again, say it differently, spell it, point, or say 'that's not what I meant'.
Also called Rett and eye gaze, MECP2 and communication
Girls and women with Rett syndrome lose the use of their hands and mostly their speech, but not their minds; the eyes became the channel, and eye gaze technology changed everything.
Also called Communication rights, Right to freedom of expression, Article 10, Article 21 UNCRPD, Communication Bill of Rights
Where the right to communicate sits in law, from the Human Rights Act to the UN conventions, and what it can and cannot make happen.
Also called Row/column scanning, Row-column scan
The device scans down the rows, the person picks one, then it scans across that row. The standard pattern for any grid bigger than a handful.
Also called Refusal, Protest, Rejecting
No is the most powerful word on any system, the first one that gets removed, and the one that must be honoured every single time.
Also called Scan rate, Scan speed, First-item delay, Acceptance time, Post-selection delay
Scan rate, first-item delay, acceptance time and loops: the four settings that decide whether scanning is usable or exhausting.
Also called Screen reader, VoiceOver, TalkBack, NVDA, JAWS, Narrator
Software that reads the screen aloud and lets a person drive a device by touch and keyboard without seeing it. Free on every phone, and a different way of thinking.
Fiducia Talk is a complete talking board: 308 symbol cards, a phonics keyboard and a big-key keyboard, speaking in your device's own voice. No account, no subscription, and nothing you say leaves your device.
Open the boardAccessibility toolkit
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Fiducia Talk