Planning ahead for communication
Support includes:
- Start early
- A baseline evaluation as soon as symptoms appear or a diagnosis is made.
- Message and voice banking
- Recording meaningful phrases, or creating a synthetic voice that sounds like you.
- Everyday strategies
- Planning conversations around energy, facing your listener, and using an amplifier when your voice is soft.
- Communication devices
- Choosing and setting up speech-generating devices or apps, including eye-gaze access.
- Low-tech backups
- Letter boards and writing for when technology isn’t practical.
- Family
- Showing the people closest to you how to support conversation.