General description |
Key descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems: objects, pictograms, Blissymbolics. Alternative access. Assistive technology.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication is a compulsory subject aimed to endow the future speech and language pathologist with a toolbox kit of language and communication assessment and intervention strategies. Augmentative and Alternative Communication systems may be either objects, pictograms, Blissymbolics, PIC, orthography or manual signs based. Symbols, together with the use of low and high assistive technology options and alternative access are the tools to intervene communicative impairments of people who lack of natural speech to meet their communication needs. |