Communication Aids

and Strategies Using

Tools of Technology
Overview
•Technology has taken over
the world in these past
decades . Its rapid
development has made a
huge impact on each aspect
of life. But how huge is its
impact in communication?
What is a Communication Aid?

•Helps an individual to
communicate more
effectively with people
around them.
Presentation Media
•It is a standalone
presentation that includes
information, presented
with slides, video or
digital presentation and
includes sound.
What is Augmentative and
Alternative Communication(AAC)?
• Encompasses the
communication methods used
to supplement, replace speech
or writing for those with
impairments in the production
or comprehension of spoken
or written language.
There are two types main types of Augmentative and
Alternative Communication (AAC) system.

Aided Communication uses

equipment , but this ranges from
low –tech to high –tech methods,
with pictures and symbols often
used instead of together with
words and with alternative
hardware options available to
provide access.
Unaided Communication does
not use additional equipment .
Body ,language, gesture,
vocalization , signing are
typically used.
Types of Communication Strategies

• Communication strategies can be

verbal, nonverbal, or visual.
Integrating all the strategies
together will allow you to see the
most success. This allows a
business to meet employee needs
and increase workplace
knowledge.
Verbal communication
strategies
• This can be broken down into the
two categories of written and oral
communication. Written
strategies consist of avenues such
as e-mail, text, and chat.
Examples that fall into the oral
category are phone calls, video
chats, and face-to-face
conversation.
Nonverbal Communication Strategies
• Consist of mostly visual cues, such as
body language, facial expressions,
physical distance between
communicators, or the tone of your
voice. These cues are typically not
intended. However, it is important to
realize the message you are sending.
Otherwise, you may be saying one thing,
yet the receiver is hearing another.
 Visual Communication Strategies
• This can be seen through signs,
web pages, and illustrations. These
strategies are used in the workplace
to draw attention and provide
documentation. Human resources is
required to post certain visuals
throughout the workplace to
comply with safety laws.
 What Are Communication Strategies?
• Communication is the exchange of information
between a sender and a receiver. It used to be
that you only had to worry about the way you
communicated face-to-face or on paper.
Technology has changed this completely. It is
important for people to take into account every
aspect of how they are relaying information. This
is where communication strategies come into play.
Communication strategies are the blueprints for
how this information will be exchanged.
Effective Communication in the Workplace
• Workplace Communication is the
process of exchanging information,
both verbal and non-verbal, within an
organization. There are many means of
communication. To be an effective and
valuable member of your workplace it
is important that you become skilled in
all the different methods of
communication that are appropriate.
• Effective workplace communication ensures that
organizational objectives are achieved.
Workplace communication is tremendously
important to organizations because it increases
productivity and efficiency. Ineffective workplace
communication leads to communication gaps
between employees, which causes confusion,
wastes time, and reduces productivity.
Misunderstanding that cause friction between
people can be avoided by communicating
effectively.
Using Tools of Technology
• Multimedia is content that uses a
combination of different content
forms such as text, audio, images,
animations, video and interactive
content. Multimedia contrasts with
media that use only rudimentary
computer displays such as text-only or
traditional forms of printed or hand-
produced material.
• Transparency, also known
variously as a view foil, foil, or
view graph, is a thin sheet of
transparent flexible material,
typically cellulose acetate, onto
which figures can be drawn.
These are then placed on an
overhead projector for display to
an audience.
• Video is an electronic medium for the
recording, copying, playback,
broadcasting, and display of moving
visual media.
• Sound recording and reproduction is
an electrical, mechanical, electronic,
or digital inscription and re-creation
of sound waves, such as spoken voice,
singing, instrumental music, or sound
effects.
Using Traditional Visual and Audio Media
• Overhead Transparencies are clear acetate
pages displayed by an overhead projector
during a speech.
• Flip Chart a large pad paper that rest on an
easel allowing the speaker to record.
• White board/chalk board- these materials
can also help you achieve the same
outcome.
• Document Camera- is a projector device.
• Video showing a video clip can elicit an
emotional response from the audience.
• Handouts are sheet of paper containing
relevant information that some speakers
use in conjunction with other presentation
media.
• Sound recordings sounds, like visual
images can stimulate mental images
triggering the imagination and setting
mood.
Using Computer Technology
• Digital Slides - a presentation software
commonly using PowerPoint. It allows
computer users to display information in
multimedia presentation.
• Real- Time Web Access use to
demonstrate how to do something
special on the web such as researching
an idea.
Strategies Using Tools of Technology
• Keep it simple
• Emphasize your key ideas
• Show what you can't say
• Use close up shots and other images
• Keep the number of images you present
manageable
• Combine variety with coherence
• Use large lettering
PowerPoint Presentation Tips
• Go for creativity- create your own design,
try different combination and let your
creativity flow.
• Colors are nice - flat colors are beautiful
and contrast is your friend.
• Use good fonts - Comic Sans and Georgia
will do. Text is evil- use the 10-20-30 rule,
too many text will catch the attention of
the audience from you.
• Images say more than a thousand
words- make the images more
powerful.
• Big is beautiful- think big, think
bold.
• Info graphics are amazing- use
simple info graphics.
• Get inspired- remember your
ultimate goal.
Tips in using Presentation Media

• Practice with your Media.

•Consider your room and
audience.
•Speak to your audience
not your media.
Thank you!