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Speak

• Speak Build a sentence by touching symbols, and have the voice on your device speak it, without sending anything anywhere.
• The ready-made boards A catalogue of boards to touch to build a sentence, or to print directly, with no account.
• My boards Build your communication board, name it, save it on this device, and export it to a backup file that you keep.
• Print a board Choose a board, adjust how the grid is displayed and print it from the browser, without sending anything to an outside service.
• Yes, no and the everyday words The basic Words Within Reach board: yes, no, greetings, questions and the everyday words, to touch or to print.
• The body and pain The Words Within Reach body and pain board: where it hurts, how it hurts, how much, to touch or to print.
• At school The Words Within Reach At school board: the people, the objects and the ready-made phrases for being understood in class, to touch or to print.
• Emotions The Words Within Reach emotions board: naming what you feel, how strongly, and the words that help afterwards, to touch or to print.
• People and places The Words Within Reach People and places board: family, everyday places, transport and the words for saying where, to touch or to print.
• The day: getting dressed, washing, the time of day The Words Within Reach board for the day: getting dressed, washing, the times of day and sleep, to touch or to print.
• Eating and drinking The Words Within Reach board for eating and drinking: food, drink, quantity, taste and the core words, to touch or to print.
• The body and health, in communication symbols The body and health in Mulberry symbols: parts of the body and sensations to name, never a diagnosis or advice on treatment.
• Everyday actions Everyday actions from Words Within Reach, in Mulberry symbols: get up, walk, open, give, tidy up, to touch or to print.
• At the doctor’s, in hospital The Words Within Reach care board: the people, the objects, the actions and the needs in hospital, to touch or to print.
• Emergencies The Words Within Reach emergency board: the essential messages for calling for help, answering and being understood quickly, to touch or to print.

Understanding and supporting

• How it works The three steps, the design choices and what research establishes about augmentative and alternative communication.
• Supporting without speaking for the person How to introduce a communication board, model without demanding, allow time, and never speak for the person.
• In hospital Understanding one another without a voice: when a patient is intubated, has aphasia, or does not speak the language of the ward.
• At school What a communication board makes possible in the classroom, and how to put one in place today with no budget.
• After a stroke What a communication board brings to everyday exchanges in aphasia, and what it does not replace.
• Using the service offline What works without a connection after a single visit, what does not, and how to check it for yourself.
• The symbols and their licences Why no non-commercial clause is admitted, how the licences are verified, and what the ShareAlike module implies.

The blog

• The blog The articles published by the service, from the most recent to the oldest.
• Understanding augmentative and alternative communication What augmentative and alternative communication is, who it is for, and the difference between its tools: unaided or aided, paper or digital.
• The real cost of augmentative and alternative communication What dedicated speech-generating devices and the applications on the market really cost, with sourced figures, and what a free tool changes.
• Paper, a backup for when the screen is missing Why a printed communication board remains essential alongside the screen: battery, places where a device is not allowed, emergencies.
• Introducing a communication board for the first time The attitude and the steps for introducing a communication board to a family member, a patient or a pupil who has never seen one, and the mistakes to avoid.
• When speech is missing in hospital Why speech can be missing in intensive care or after a stroke, and what research shows about communication boards in hospital.

The site

• Speaking in symbols Build a sentence with symbols and hear it spoken aloud, on screen or on paper. Free, no account, offline.
• Frequently asked questions What the service does, what it does not do, and what becomes of what you put into it.
• Credits The symbols, the sounds, the fonts and the images served by Words Within Reach, with their authors and their licences verified in the files.
• Licence and re-use The texts and the boards under CC BY 4.0, the symbols under their author’s licence: what applies to what, and what it requires.
• Site map Every page served, arranged by section, written at every build.
• Report an error A symbol that does not say what its label announces, a wrong word, a licence badly credited: say so, and it will be put right.
• Contact Two addresses: speak@odersa.org for the service and its content, contact@odersa.org for the association.