A LEIGH-based group for disabled people have been looking at alternative forms of communication.
Disability Action Group members celebrated the International Week of Disabled People at a conference held at Ince community centre.
It gave them the opportunity to explore communication and to look at different ways people interact, besides speech.
The action group says 75 percent of all communication is non-verbal.
On the day the group worked with the borough-wide Young People's Council, volunteers from the College in the Community group and the Monday Night group at the Link building in Golborne.
One of the communication aids they looked at was a 'hiptalker'. This device looks like a bum-bag but it is actually a useful communication tool. It has a series of pre-programmed phrases that it can repeat.
The disability action group is a set of young disabled people who meet monthly to discuss issues of importance to their lives.
They urge anyone with a disability aged between 11 and 25 years old or their carers to ring Merry Macdonald for more information at Wigan Youth Service on 01942 203955.
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