Instructional Guide for Creating a Visual Scene Display in the Viking System

Resource Toolkit Assignment:  Resource Summary Sheet

1.     Name of the tool, or a brief description: This help sheet is created by Viking to help users of this Tobii platform create visual scene displays.

2.     What type of patient(s) would you use this tool/technique with?  (Describe by characteristics or by etiology.) This guide to creating visual scene displays would be most useful for either pediatric clients or older clients with aphasia. In both populations, recognition of iconic symbols through taxonomic or semantic/syntactic organization symbols may be too difficult or confusing. Visual scene displays put the symbols in the context of how they would appear in the client’s life.

3.     How/why would you use this tool?  In what way will it be helpful? This tool is a great resource for creating a visual scene display on a Tobii device. Although not every client will be best suited by using a Tobii device, there may be some overlap between different device systems, and this is a good start for getting to know how to create visual displays.

4.     What are the advantages of this tool/technique? The instructions for creating the visual scene displays are specific and easy to follow. Photos of different steps are included for additional clarity.

5.     Are there any disadvantages to this tool/technique? This information is specifically designed for the Viking System on a Tobii device. As such, it benefit in helping to design a visual scene display is limited.  

The next several questions relate to how you obtained this resource:

6.     If you used an existing tool, answer these two questions:

a)     Source/citation for this tool:   (whether published, or from a course, or SPHSC materials) This informational guide came from the following website address: http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/downloads/faqs/Creating-VSD-in-VS-Communicator.pdf

b)     Did you modify this tool?  If so, in what way? No, I did not modify this tool in any way.

c)      Anything you still don’t like about it and may change in the future? I think this instructional guide is great as it is!

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