Assistive Communication: Article Analysis

This journal by novita children’s services simplifies the topic on Augmentation and alternative communication. One amazing this is how the topic is broken down into smaller subtopics giving the user an easy time to follow through. The topics address the following; definition of AAC, how AAC helps, how AAC affects development of speech, Example of children’s who can be helped, types of AAC. Any student and reader who has not fully understood the topic of AAC can still find help by going through the frequently asked questions and their respective answers. Another amazing thing with this website is that it has provided all the books and journals referred to in this article. This makes it easy for students and other readers to turn to the original …show more content…
The definition of assistive technology is not only complete by very simple to understand. Once you’re at this site you cannot stop reading through every topic to discover and understand every concept adequately since the pictures used in every subheading give a clear visual idea of what is being –p=addressed. The site goes further to answer one disturbing question as to who needs to pay for the Assistive Technology between parents and schools. Several examples of Assistive Technology have been given including text to speech software and how it works. The structure and arrangement of this article has been done with utmost professionalism. It does not appear crowded with words since only the important subtopics have been presented. This gives the reader an easy time incase he/ she wants to go direct to a given …show more content…
I love how the topic attracts and captures the attention of the reader, how to teach students who “Talk with Technology”. The inclusion of images in the definition of key words such AAC makes improves the understanding of the reader. The background and introduction provided in this article set the pace for the topic since they introduce and remind the reader on communication skills, the three levels of communicative abilities and Augmentative and alternative Communication. More clarity is provided n this article a stepwise description of any activity is coupled with picture and images. This aided me in understanding the AAC toolbox in a more precise manner. I can recommend this article to any person who gets bored when reading articles written in a continuous prose or single style with no clarity in presenting ideas. This is because this article is well structure with short elaborate points aiding in its superior way of presenting