#digital aacs

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it's ok to use an AAC

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for those autistics that want to use their AACs

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this is a post about nonverbal communication.

we have plenty of semi/nonverbal alters and many members in our system go nonverbal/semiverbal

nonverbal communication is valid and should be talked about more.

some days you can't talk for a period of time and or all day and that's okay. some autistics don't like verbal spoken communication all the time, some autistics hate the way they speak/sound. some can't talk when they're scared or overwhelmed or excited etc. some autistics deal with selective mutism. and that's okay.

not all communication has to be verbally through your mouth parts. there are other ways to communicate. like what we talk about in this post. this world is speech obsessed and that needs to change

in our system we use a lot of nonverbal communication. we are trying to learn ASL, we have an digital AAC we use IRL but lots of alters use AACs in headspace. digital AACs, text to speech, communication cards, stimming, ASL, etc etc.

we're starting/trying/learning to use them all when we can but mainly we use a high tech AAC or text to speech and stimming. we're working on gestures, written word, sign language and communication cards.

what forms of nonverbal communication do you use? something we didn't mention in the post? feel free to comment in the notes

a lot of alters works on this and we're proud of it. we really like making these posts.

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needing to use nonverbal communication sometimes/a lot like a digital AAC, text to speech, sign language, communication cards, etc