Visual Aids

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Visual Aids

• Finn Emmerson
• Speech and Language Therapist

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Supporting Communication

• Gains and maintains attention (uses 2 senses)
• Information can be processed quickly (visual
  sense)
• Clarifies verbal comprehension
• Aids transition between activities (permanent
  cue)
• Helps overcome language complexities (double
  meanings objects with more than 1 name)

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Typical Development

• Objects
• Miniatures
• Colour photographs
• Coloured pictures
• Black and white photographs
• Symbols

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Accessing Visual Aids

• Eye pointing
• Touching / pointing
• Taking / giving
• Pressing
• Switches

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Remember!

• User friendly vocabulary - motivation
• Visual aid development
• Verbal comprehension
• Number of visual aids
• Presenting visual aids
• Accessing

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How To Use Visual Aids

• Choice making
• Matching
• Timetables
• Topic boards
• Instructions
• Feelings
• Yes and No