Eco 14 - About Minspeak

GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH YOUR ECO
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About Minspeak
®
Your device uses Minspeak
®
to help you communicate.
Minspeak is a means of coding vocabulary to a small set of icons that are rich in meaning.
Minspeak's use of icons taps into a person's natural tendency to associate multiple meanings to
pictures. By coding a large vocabulary of words, phrases and whole messages using this small
set of icons, Minspeak offers many advantages:
• it is logical in how it represents a person's language;
• it is easy to learn because it fits into a person's natural ability to associate many meanings to
one picture;
• it promotes language development by providing a rich vocabulary of words that you can
combine into sentences;
• because the small set of icons remains the same on a single overlay, you can, with practice,
learn to recall your vocabulary automatically;
• it promotes further language development by offering many opportunities for language-
learning experiences.
These advantages lead to the ultimate benefit of using Minspeak: it allows for and promotes
independent, effective communication.
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