Communication Sciences and Disorders 4411A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Laryngectomy, Glossectomy, Intubation

• School: Western University
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: Communication Sciences and Disorders 4411A/B
• Professor: Hillary Ganek

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Communication sciences and disorders 4411a lecture 13: augmentative and alternative communication. Say what you want to say, when you want to say it, as quickly as possible. Augmentative communication supplements or enhances speech and/or language. Alternative communication substitutes or replaces speech and/or language. Assistive technology to perform functions that would otherwise be too difficult. Symbols are an important feature of aac systems. The symbols included on aac devices can represent objects, actions, events, concepts, or words. Users select symbols or combinations of symbols to convey messages. Symbols can be anything ranging from objects, pictures, photographs, or written words. Symbols can also be transparent (as the pictures in the middle that symbolize the actual words) or less transparent (as in the bliss symbols), and objects (where symbols don"t represent concepts) Accessing symbols with a finger or pointing device. Aka scanning (eye gaze) vs direct (pointing)