What is the Minspeak Language?

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.

Example of Minspeak icons.