DynaVox Series 5, User Manual

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Rate Enhancement Basics
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My Phrases
What Does It Do?
The My Phrases menu allows you to define and organize phrases for use in a variety of
situations. You can easily use phrases in long messages, or as stand-alone messages.
Who Would Use It?
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Can be used by those who rely on symbols and those who use text exclusively. Phrases
are effective for all selection methods, and can be applied to different page configurations.
Why Is It Useful?
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Can be quickly and easily be accessed from anywhere within a user’s page set.
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When well-defined, phrases can be integral to back-and-forth “in-time” communication.
Concept Slots
What Does It Do?
A concept slot (also called “slot”) is a variable placeholder that can be included in button text,
button labels and phrases. Slots provide you with easy access to all of the words in a concept.
When you select a slot, you can choose to replace the word that is currently in the message
with another word from the same concept. Slots are displayed as blue underlined words.
Who Would Use It?
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Users who can combine simple symbols or text (even as few as two elements).
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Users who are context-dependent or independent communicators.
Why Is It Useful?
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Slots allow a good deal of variety to common communication settings.
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Provide greater variety with a smaller number of selections.
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Eliminate the need to always build common sentences and phrases word by word.
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Can be combined with a variety of phrases and topics.
The Series 5 software contains a number of other rate enhancement features, including:
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Character Prediction
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Context Prediction
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Flexible Abbreviation
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Phrase Prediction
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Abbreviation Expansion
Reference:
See
Chapter 16: Using Rate Enhancement Tools
in the
Searchable Help
for information on other rate enhancement
features.