Topic “Post School Education”  

This guide describes what core communication boards are and the principles around using them.

This alphabet board can be used in a number of different situations, for example:

• To clarify some words that are difficult to communicate in another way.
• As the main form of communication in a conversation.

You can use it by:

• Pointing to individual letters or phrases.
• Spelling out whole words or indicating start letters/sounds of a word to help someone get nearer to the word you want to say.
• Fist pointing if pointing to individual letters is difficult: fist point to a group of letters, and then clarify which letter in that group you intended by fist pointing to one of the colours at the top or bottom of the board.

Your conversation partner could write down the letters as you go - you could indicate "x mistake" if they get a letter wrong, or writing down might not be necessary.

Additional help and information for the use of the Commtap resource packs.

Core communication board using ARASAAC symbols (https://arasaac.org). For use with everyday communication.

Note: if re-distributing with the ARASAAC symbols, this must be done non-commercially only.

You can make your own core communication board using different symbols with the Commtap Symboliser for PowerPoint.

Flyer which you can print out and give to people to let them know about the site.

Full core communication board plus a simplified version. Uses Noun Project icons - can be used in any context as long as the icons are attributed.