He communicated by pointing to letters painted on an "alphabet board" at first, and later used his own form of sign language.

(He can mouth words or laboriously spell them out using an improvised alphabet board.)

For each session they would draw up a new alphabet board and draw a different symbol in the middle.

That foot became her only means of communication: she could spell out words by pointing her big toe at an alphabet board.

Low-tech alphabet boards are often introduced immediately to provide the individual with basic communication.

This retains a painted alphabet board dated 1848, high on the classroom wall, as a model for scholars to copy their letters.

In October 1954, Baba discarded his alphabet board and began using only hand gestures from then on.

Within weeks, their frighteningly inaccessible and uncontrollable child begins to use an alphabet board to tap out logical human thoughts.

He used an alphabet board, signaling the letters of the words he wanted to spell out, to ask to die.

After learning to communicate with eye blinks in response to letters being pointed to on an alphabet board, she became a poet and author.