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Provides a range of simple, functional and innovative augmentative communication solutions to ensure effective and interactive communication to suit each individual's abilities and environment

Let’s Talk Together enhances interactive and functional communication for people with severe communication challenges, many of whom have multiple challenges including intellectual, physical and sensory impairments.

This practical approach to communication helps people with a developmental disability to:

• access services and information
  
• participate in community activities
  
• create opportunities to express both positive and negative feelings
  
• make lifestyle choices
  
• ensure their needs are respected and understood

Talking together is about two or more people talking about a range of different things.

When someone has a severe communication impairment talking together becomes much harder, and in some cases impossible. The more difficult it is for a person to talk, the more important it is for the communication partner to use different ways of ensuring that communication takes place.

During the day there are many occasions to communicate. Each activity has a different kind of communication depending on the activity itself and the people present. By creating communication opportunities and providing augmentative communication support, the Lets Talk Together program assists people who have difficulty communicating to plan their day, express their feelings, participate in meetings at home and in the workplace, shop, cook, run a home and talk together within a range of activities.

For help with implementing the Let’s Talk Together programme the following resources are available:

• Let’s Talk Together – The Great Ideas Manual

  The Lets Talk Together Manual was compiled jointly by Ylana Bloom, Speech Pathologist, and Sue Treloar, Special Education Teacher. It is brimming with ideas to ensure the most appropriate communication support is available for the person during every part of the day. It includes a user friendly assessment tool to help determine the needs of each person, a method for testing and teaching the communication strategies to ensure the they are implemented consistently and reliably during the day, and eight different communication systems. We have found that the combination of all these systems increases the quality of life of people with complex communication needs. The package includes information on:

  • Meetings System
  • Calendar/Routine System
  • Communication Book System
  • Shopping System
  • Feelings System
  • Chore System
  • Roster System
  • Cooking System

• Let’s Talk Together Update

  Let’s Talk Together has been updated with the assistance of Dolly Bhargava. It has many new and exciting ideas for both children and adults.

  The Let’s Talk Together Update includes suggestions on how to identify and link AAC communication systems to help people of all ages communicate in a variety of environments (e.g. classroom, home, work and community. Explanations and examples of a variety of AAC strategies are provided including:

  • Schedules
  • Calendars
  • Activity checklists
  • Choice systems
  • Category books
  • Chat system
  • Circle of friends
  • Social stories
  • Social scripts
  • Problem Solutions charts
  • Behavioural rules etc.

Click here to learn more about Ylana Bloom and Dolly Bhargava who make up the clever Innovative Communication Programming Team.

Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Let's Talk Together Manual
	IPLTT-M	Book		$200.00	$20.00
	Let's Talk Together Update
	IPLTT-U	Book		$120.00	$12.00
	Let's Talk Together Bundle - Manual and Update
	IPLTT-MU	Book		$250.00	$25.00