ALS & Communication

Alt Communication

• How do I set up a simple communication system?

  ✓Supports this

  “A means of alerting someone, such as a bell, buzzer, adapted call device or intercom, is part of a communication system, because getting attention is a separate need from being understood.”

  Gives noise-making items as the way to get someone's attention, in a section on emergency communication devices that sits alongside its low-tech boards and scanning. It also names a caregiver pager and a wearable alert device.

  Use noise-making items like a bell or buzzer to get the attention of others in case of an emergency.

  Low Tech AAC

• What low-tech communication options are there?

  ✓Supports this

  “Partner-assisted scanning helps when the person cannot select the letters or words themselves.”

  Gives being unable to physically select a word or phrase as the reason to use partner-assisted scanning, which is the situation this clause describes.

  Partner-assisted scanning can be used to communicate if you cannot physically select a word or phrase

  Low Tech AAC

• Why have a backup communication method?

  iAdds context

  “A communication device can be out of action or out of reach at the moment it is needed.”

  Frames a regular communication system being unavailable or not working as something anyone should plan for, which is the background to this sentence rather than evidence for the particular situations it lists.

• Why have a backup communication method?

  ✓Supports this

  “A backup for being understood does not cover getting someone's attention, so an alerting device such as a bell or buzzer is needed as well.”

  Treats getting attention as its own problem, with a section on emergency communication devices separate from its boards and partner-assisted scanning, and gives noise-making items as the answer to it.

  Use noise-making items like a bell or buzzer to get the attention of others in case of an emergency.

  Low Tech AAC