Chat Fusion User’s Guide 65Symbols, photographs, visual scenes, videos, or words can be used onthe message, topic, and script pages. Included are pages that facilitatesupported communication techniques, self-advocacy, directing care,and repair of communication breakdowns. Types of informationtypically included in communication books—such as pain and emotionscales, maps, and templates for personal information and life stories—are also incorporated into the vocabulary file. Specialized featuresinclude variable “rate of speech” and “pause between words”. Grid sizeand vocabulary are easily customized to reflect and support the lifeexperiences of the person with aphasia.Although this vocabulary file contains starting-point vocabularycommonly required by adults with aphasia, it must be customized. Eachperson has a unique history, and the file must reflect that person’s life,experiences, and abilities.Intermediate ScanIntermediate Scan is primarily a phrase-based vocabulary forcommunicators who access communication through auditory and/orvisual scanning. It was designed to be a next step after using the BasicScan vocabulary file when beginning to transition to the use of corewords. Intermediate Scan was developed by Lisa Nobel Martin, MA,CCC-SLP, specifically for Chat Fusion and NOVA chat devices. Lisa hasyears of experience working with nonverbal pediatric patients at allstages of communication. Her focus on teaching auditory and visualscanning techniques to these individuals has proven quite successful.MultiChat 15MultiChat 15 features a 15-button layout and is available in threeversions: one for school-aged individuals with emerging language skills,one for adolescents, and one for adults. There are multiple forms ofcommunication available in this vocabulary: sentences, phrases,individual words, recordings for story-telling, and visual scenes. Alsoincluded are interactive play and reading pages, social pages and aNews-2-You starter page for the weekly newspaper’s vocabulary. Thereare symbols on every button with the exception of several core words.
