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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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Examples of Message Banking(TM) Nancy sharing her heart and soul through message banking Holly discussing selecting messages for her dog named Walker Holly using her device and banked messages to call her dog Holly demonstrating navigation from keyboard …

Message Banking(TM) Video Tutorials This series of video tutorials describes what is Message Banking and why you may want to do it, offers many tips to consider when message banking (learned from many people with ALS and their family), describes the …

Voice Banking About voice banking Voice banking is a process that allows someone to create a synthetic voice that ideally sounds like your natural voice. It is achieved by recording a large number of messages when your voice is clear. The number of …