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Improving Communication With Children Using Speech?Generating Devices

N2Y

My grandson Joey is five and uses a speech-generating device (SGD) that he activates using his eye gaze. And all of us who love Joey wonder how we can help him live his best life. Children who are learning to communicate using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are a diverse group.

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Presuming Competence in Children With Unique Needs

N2Y

How might Stephen Hawking, one of the true geniuses of our time, have been judged if he were assessed without the benefit of his speech-generating device (SGD) and by someone who did not know who he was? She persistently encourages Martin to try to communicate and watches him carefully for signs of understanding.