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I’ll admit I’m not the best at wording so i apologize for that. But yes it would be accounted as AAC, I’ll admit the reason I made it being it personally feels weird to say I use AAC or call myself a AAC user as I don’t use an actual AAC. So the term was mainly made for myself and those who may prefer to call themselves soemthing else.
Also for the Nonverbal umbrella thing, I didn’t really know what it’d be called? Being I was thinking about terms that someone lacks verbality or goes in and out of it (verbalflux, choice verbal, etc.)
I hope I make sence, if not. Feel free to ask clarifying questions.
second ask:
Add on, wanted to mention the text part in text verbal I meant more as in text messages (ie: DMs, Discord, etc.) not typing into something like AAC.
My bad :p
it makes sense!
for what it's worth, texting is actual AAC. if it makes you feel better, i say that as someone who is semiverbal, who has a dedicated device as well as harness for my talker, who has purchased lifetime access for both TD Snap and Grid AAC, who is in several AAC-specific communities, and, of course, am a part-time AAC user
saying those all not to say that those are needed to be an AAC user, but because i know self-doubt around this sort of thing is really difficult to deal with. it gets really easy to compare yourself to other AAC users and think that because they have a dedicated device, or use AAC full-time, or have seen a speech-language pathologist since they were young, that they have more of a valid claim to being an AAC user than you do, when that isn't the case at all. so my hope in listing those things is to add some of the 'credentials' that {at least our} brain likes to think make someone a Real AAC User:tm:
using text messages to communicate is AAC. the same as using communication cards, or a letterboard, or showing people movie clips, or using Proloquo2Go with eyegaze on a mounted dedicated device, or using gestures. these are all actual types of AAC. and people who use them are actual AAC users
the overall verbality spectrum usually gets called either the verbality spectrum or is called altverbal
someone who has verbal speech most {or some} of the time but has temporary periods of no speech would be someone who experiences speech loss episodes or verbal shutdowns; there's a lot of terms for that experience specifically. i can't give much of a definition for verbalflux because we honestly tend to be confused by it, so i don't want to speak {pun unintended but glad for} on that. but it wouldn't be using the word 'nonverbal' as that is a long-term, usually permanent state. and words like nonverbal and semiverbal also refer to more than just one's ability or capability to verbally speak, but i don't have the spoons for that explanation
tl;dr: text messages are actual AAC. people who use text messages to communicate are real, actual AAC users. we usually see the words 'verbality spectrum' or 'altverbal' instead of nonverbality spectrum. someone who sometimes can't speak verbally but can other times is most likely experiencing verbal shutdowns