Communication Card - Portable AAC Visual Support

The Communication Card is a clear, simple and portable AAC visual support tool that offers children a quick and simple accessible way to communicate their everyday needs. This durable, double-sided communication card is a visual communication aid for nonverbal children, early communicators, and children with speech or language delays. It can also be a helpful support for minimally verbal kids, or those who may struggle at times with verbal communication due to anxiety or elective mutism.

This AAC card features 24 everyday words used throughout the day, represented by a simple symbol with matching text.

Made from flexible gloss plastic, it’s lightweight, easy to clean, and sized perfectly for quick access at school, daycare, home, or when out and about. The built-in lanyard slot allows the card to be attached using your own lanyard or our stretchy coil. It is easy to clip to backpacks, belt loops, lanyards, prams or wrist straps for quick access.

Perfect as a stand-alone tool or as the ideal add-on to My Communication Book.

Therapy Benefits:

• Gives every child a voice; just because you can't speak doesn't mean you have nothing to say!
• Supports development of communication, language, and speech
• Provides an augmentative support for children who can speak but struggle to get their message across with speech alone
• Improves interaction and reduces frustration

Product Features:

• Very portable - at just 8.5 × 140 cm,lightweight and on a lanyard, you can take it wherever you go for a quick and handy communication support
• 24 Essential Everyday Words represented by a picture symboland matching text
• 12 images per side covering the most commonly used requests, actions and needs children express daily
• Durable Flexible Gloss Plastic Card 
• Strong, waterproof, wipe-clean — made for real-life use by little hands
• Perfect size for little hands to carry and use
  
• Designed for Australian children, families, therapists and educators
• Pair with My Communication Book for a more comprehensive yet simple AAC system

Who is This Communication Card For?

• Nonverbal and minimally verbal children 
• Kids with autism / neurodivergent children
• People with Selective Mutism or Situational Mutism
• Children with speech and language delays or disorders
• Children using AAC & picture-based communication
• Parents, teachers & speech therapists

How do I use this AAC Card?

Learning to use an AAC system is just like learning to talk. A child will learn best by having the system modelled to them. In other words, the input matches the output. The most natural way for kids to become confident with an AAC system is to have their communication partners (that means you, their teachers and whoever they regularly communicate with) use that system as well. As you talk to them in everyday interactions, point to key word pictures as you go. This helps them to attach meaning to the symbols, as well as developing an understanding of how to use the system for real life communication (a range of pragmatic functions). The more practice and experience the child has, the more confident they will become.