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new person with speech problems

vermire

hi 

im 19 and only recently diagnosed with autism which kind of sucks because i didnt get help in school or college

i have speech problems (i cant talk except little bits with some of my friends) does anyone have any advice with other ways to talk? ive been writing notes and kinda making up my own sign language but only my mum and one of my brothers really understand that properly and even then they dont get what i try to say lots of the time so its kind of hard when i have nothing to write on somewhere 

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  • There's a lot of stuff around on autism websites about using pictorial information. This can be created simply by cutting out useful pictures in magazines that clearly convey something you think you might need to put across.

    So that might be pictures of places you want to get to - library, police station, public convenience, local college - either pictures of the actual local buildings if you can find them, or their nearest equivalents found in newspapers and magazines.

    Some social situations may be well expressed in pictures or cartoons that would mean something immediately to anyone you showed it to.

    With a bit of help from others you could put together a set of useful pictures to help you get across things you need to communicate every day.

    You can get packs of little clear plastic card holders at some big newsagents, including wallets with numbers of such holders bound together, to put the pictures in and keep them in good condition. So you carry it with you, along with a notebook for writing down anything that you cannot convey with pictures.

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  • There's a lot of stuff around on autism websites about using pictorial information. This can be created simply by cutting out useful pictures in magazines that clearly convey something you think you might need to put across.

    So that might be pictures of places you want to get to - library, police station, public convenience, local college - either pictures of the actual local buildings if you can find them, or their nearest equivalents found in newspapers and magazines.

    Some social situations may be well expressed in pictures or cartoons that would mean something immediately to anyone you showed it to.

    With a bit of help from others you could put together a set of useful pictures to help you get across things you need to communicate every day.

    You can get packs of little clear plastic card holders at some big newsagents, including wallets with numbers of such holders bound together, to put the pictures in and keep them in good condition. So you carry it with you, along with a notebook for writing down anything that you cannot convey with pictures.

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