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17 May 2013, 6:43 pm

This is my AAC device I use it to help me talk its a dynavox maestro , do you use anything to help you talk because of autism ?

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[youtube]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tJZGfK2ymg[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tJZGfK2ymg



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17 May 2013, 7:04 pm

Sorry I just noticed the YouTube clip is muted ! I will try to fix this



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17 May 2013, 7:45 pm

i use myPad to message my family.


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17 May 2013, 8:34 pm

AdamAutistic wrote:
i use myPad to message my family.


Do you mean iPad I used to use ipad with grid player before got the dyna vox



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18 May 2013, 5:16 am

***I changed video, cos last one would not work***



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18 May 2013, 12:02 pm

I wish I could use something like that to communicate. I have been told (and proved to myself too) that I am better at socialising online than I am verbally. If I was to speak in a group of about 5 people in a room, I would be sitting really quietly feeling shy and awkward, but if I was to have an online chat conversation with 5 people, I would be really good, write all the appropriate things and really be an excellent communicater. I think I am afraid to hear my own voice when speaking in a group conversation, but I am not shy to write everything.

But since I have been verbal ever since I was about 1 and a half years old, and still am able to speak now like everyone else, I can't just change into a non-verbal person who has to use gadgets to communicate. People won't take me seriously, and I doubt I would be able to go into work with one.


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18 May 2013, 12:24 pm

Joe90 wrote:
I wish I could use something like that to communicate. I have been told (and proved to myself too) that I am better at socialising online than I am verbally. If I was to speak in a group of about 5 people in a room, I would be sitting really quietly feeling shy and awkward, but if I was to have an online chat conversation with 5 people, I would be really good, write all the appropriate things and really be an excellent communicater. I think I am afraid to hear my own voice when speaking in a group conversation, but I am not shy to write everything.

But since I have been verbal ever since I was about 1 and a half years old, and still am able to speak now like everyone else, I can't just change into a non-verbal person who has to use gadgets to communicate. People won't take me seriously, and I doubt I would be able to go into work with one.


I'm exactly like this too. I communicate great when I write and type something out. It's much harder for me verbally. Most of the important things I want to say to people I usually do by email now. At my last doctor's appointment, I actually wrote him a letter rather than try to explain everything verbally. It was probably the most productive appointment I've been to.



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18 May 2013, 7:16 pm

Joe90 wrote:
I wish I could use something like that to communicate. I have been told (and proved to myself too) that I am better at socialising online than I am verbally. If I was to speak in a group of about 5 people in a room, I would be sitting really quietly feeling shy and awkward, but if I was to have an online chat conversation with 5 people, I would be really good, write all the appropriate things and really be an excellent communicater. I think I am afraid to hear my own voice when speaking in a group conversation, but I am not shy to write everything.

But since I have been verbal ever since I was about 1 and a half years old, and still am able to speak now like everyone else, I can't just change into a non-verbal person who has to use gadgets to communicate. People won't take me seriously, and I doubt I would be able to go into work with one.


That's interesting. , I can't do that to over stimulating , thanks for telling me !



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18 May 2013, 9:15 pm

I often communicate in writing down on paper, I do not have a device like that.
So I write down on paper and show the paper to the person I want to communicate with.
I am not non-verbal in the sense that I cannot form words at all, but I have severe mutism, especially with people who are not familiar to me or in unfamiliar situations.
Writing helps a lot.


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19 May 2013, 3:53 am

megocode3 wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
I wish I could use something like that to communicate. I have been told (and proved to myself too) that I am better at socialising online than I am verbally. If I was to speak in a group of about 5 people in a room, I would be sitting really quietly feeling shy and awkward, but if I was to have an online chat conversation with 5 people, I would be really good, write all the appropriate things and really be an excellent communicater. I think I am afraid to hear my own voice when speaking in a group conversation, but I am not shy to write everything.

But since I have been verbal ever since I was about 1 and a half years old, and still am able to speak now like everyone else, I can't just change into a non-verbal person who has to use gadgets to communicate. People won't take me seriously, and I doubt I would be able to go into work with one.


I'm exactly like this too. I communicate great when I write and type something out. It's much harder for me verbally. Most of the important things I want to say to people I usually do by email now. At my last doctor's appointment, I actually wrote him a letter rather than try to explain everything verbally. It was probably the most productive appointment I've been to.


Identical! Was even thinking of writing to the doctor today to ask for an assessment for Aspergers, apparently I am entitled to ask for one under the Autism Act (in the UK).



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19 May 2013, 6:43 am

Eloa wrote:
I often communicate in writing down on paper, I do not have a device like that.
So I write down on paper and show the paper to the person I want to communicate with.
I am not non-verbal in the sense that I cannot form words at all, but I have severe mutism, especially with people who are not familiar to me or in unfamiliar situations.
Writing helps a lot.


I was told I have mild selective mutism as a part of my autistic disorder (it says not possible on the Internet) but it is.



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19 May 2013, 11:02 am

Autisticgamer wrote:
Eloa wrote:
I often communicate in writing down on paper, I do not have a device like that.
So I write down on paper and show the paper to the person I want to communicate with.
I am not non-verbal in the sense that I cannot form words at all, but I have severe mutism, especially with people who are not familiar to me or in unfamiliar situations.
Writing helps a lot.


I was told I have mild selective mutism as a part of my autistic disorder (it says not possible on the Internet) but it is.


I have this selective mutism too.
I think, that it does exist as a part of autism, but it would just not get diagnosed seperately, whereas it can get diagnosed if a person is not autistic.


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19 May 2013, 9:59 pm

Eloa wrote:
Autisticgamer wrote:
Eloa wrote:
I often communicate in writing down on paper, I do not have a device like that.
So I write down on paper and show the paper to the person I want to communicate with.
I am not non-verbal in the sense that I cannot form words at all, but I have severe mutism, especially with people who are not familiar to me or in unfamiliar situations.
Writing helps a lot.


I was told I have mild selective mutism as a part of my autistic disorder (it says not possible on the Internet) but it is.


I have this selective mutism too.
I think, that it does exist as a part of autism, but it would just not get diagnosed seperately, whereas it can get diagnosed if a person is not autistic.


Ok , nice to meet you : )



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20 May 2013, 10:04 am

Autisticgamer wrote:
Eloa wrote:
Autisticgamer wrote:
Eloa wrote:
I often communicate in writing down on paper, I do not have a device like that.
So I write down on paper and show the paper to the person I want to communicate with.
I am not non-verbal in the sense that I cannot form words at all, but I have severe mutism, especially with people who are not familiar to me or in unfamiliar situations.
Writing helps a lot.


I was told I have mild selective mutism as a part of my autistic disorder (it says not possible on the Internet) but it is.


I have this selective mutism too.
I think, that it does exist as a part of autism, but it would just not get diagnosed seperately, whereas it can get diagnosed if a person is not autistic.


Ok , nice to meet you : )


Nice to meet you too.


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