Day 45: Guest speaker

Guest speaker on augmentative communication.

How would you define communication?
Different forms.
Guest speaker from the district and student at our school.

Around 440,000 Canadians have speech and language disabilities in Canada.
Around 50,000 in Canada.
Disabilities can affect people in different ways: a) speech, b) language, c) combination, d) people may also have other physical, sensory, cognitive and other disabilities

Barriers.  Sometimes people are:
a) Afraid to talk to us
b) Assume that we can't hear
c) Assume we don't understand
d) Think we are drunk

Communication Access symbol.  Effective communication always takes two people.  Involves watching and listening.  Ex. using pictures, typing messages, facial movement.

Things to consider when communicating with someone with a S/L disability:
Treating the person equally.
Speak in a normal tone.
Do not speak in a childish manner.  Not being patronizing.
Is there anything I can do when communicating with you?
Be patient.
Make a sincere effort to understand what the person is communicating.

For more information please visit Communication Disabilities Across Canada CLICK to view

Communications BILL of RIGHTS: CLICK to view

In class (hand in)
1) Brainstorm challenges that people with disabilities face (student/adult)
2) Idenitfy 5 examples of places in society that help (resources/support/living) in Vancouver and surrounding areas.   Search via disability(?).  Provide 1 sentence about what the agency does.