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| Example of scene cue |
For some children who demonstrate a significant difficulty with the spoken language, we try to supplement these deficits with visual images that support language growth and communicative effectiveness. While a complete substitute visual language does not yet exist, the visual materials we introduce and develop resemble spoken language as closely as possible. When a spoken command is accompanied by a visual scene cue, direction is more likely to be understood.
When children become proficient with visual materials and the environment is rich with symbolic information, children tend to talk more. This occurs for reasons we do not always understand. Competent use of visual language often leads to greater spoken language. We can speculate that spoken language improves because the visual supports provide an organizational framework that seems to be lacking. Once again, we have taken advantage of an existing strength in attempt to improve a weakness.
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