Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 380
Communication access is a system
Communication access emerges from the fit among person, modes, vocabulary, partners, tasks, environments, and reliable fallback options.
Premise
Augmentative and Alternative Communication expands how a person can express, understand, participate, repair misunderstandings, refuse, negotiate, and maintain social connection when speech or writing alone does not meet everyday communication needs. AAC may include gesture, facial expression, manual signs, boards, photographs, symbols, alphabet displays, typing, speech-generating devices, or communication software. The executive error is to equate AAC with the technology. A sophisticated device can fail completely if vocabulary, access method, pace, positioning, partners, or the setting make it unusable.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
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Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.