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ALS: Communication Strategies and Technology

ALS Part 1:

1.1 Increasing your air power
1.2 Ways to speak to be better understood
1.3 Conserving your energy
1.4 Planning for the future

1.5 Used with permission of Harvard University, Beth Israel       Deaconess Medical Center

ALS Part 2: When your speech is not heard or not understood

2.1 Getting attention
2.2 Using a Voice amplifier
2.3 Pointing to the first letter of each word
2.4 Making a message pool
2.5 Using technology that speaks for you

ALS Part 3: Ways to signal, select messages or spell messages

3.1 Pointing with a finge
r
3.2 Pointing with your eyes
3.3 Responding to a partner (partner-assisted scanning)
3.4 Using codes
3.5 Using Morse code
3.6 Using ability switches or other simple technology

ALS Part 4: Computer technology
ALS Part 5: Technology to control your environment
ALS Part 6:  Speech output devices and software

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