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Meet Our Team Image John Costello , MA, CCC-SLP Director, Autism Language Program; Director, Augmentative Communication Program; Director, Jay S. Fishman ALS Augmentative Communication Program Adjunct faculty Boston University, MGH Institute of Health …

Protocol of Assessment Considerations Our affiliation with several proactive neurologists and ALS team members from referring centers has given us the opportunity and honor to learn from people with ALS who choose to meet with us early in their life with …

Speech Strategies Making the most of your speech For some people with ALS, changes to speech production and swallowing are the very first symptoms they experience. This is often referred to as "Bulbar onset" of symptoms. For others, changes in speech are …

Letter & Topic Cueing What is letter cueing? Your partners may interpret your speech intelligibility as clearer if you identify the first letter of the word you are speaking. This strategy, known as letter cueing, may provide additional context to your …

Voice Amplification Why use a voice amplifier? Speaking can be fatiguing. Even if your speech is considered articulate and clear, you use a great deal of energy to speak as you are using the muscles of respiration, phonation, resonation and articulation …

Partner Training Experiences and tips from people with ALS and their communication partners The change in communication skills that comes with ALS not only impacts the person with ALS, but also impacts the communication partners. The rhythm of …

Voice Preservation The ability to communicate is essential to human interaction. Of all the challenges ALS brings, many people tell us that one of the most devastating is the loss of speech. People with ALS have told us that losing the ability to speak is …

BCH Message Banking(TM) Process About Message Banking The Boston Children’s Hospital Message Banking Process™ is a dynamic, evolving process that extends from the initial point of contact across the lifespan, cycling through iterative phases in response …

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