“…Several investigators have documented communicative success using visuographic supports (e.g., photographs, souvenirs, maps, magazine, or newspaper articles) during interactions with people with aphasia (Fox & Fried-Oken, 1996;Garrett & Huth, 2002;Ho et al, 2005). VSDs appear to offer similar support by providing personal, visuographic, contextual information to clarify content and facilitate access to residual language abilities (Dietz, Hux, McKelvey, & Beukelman, 2009;Dietz, Knollman-Porter, Hux, Toth, & Brown, 2014;Dietz, Weissling et al, 2014;. Thus, VSDs may improve communicative effectiveness and, in turn, the social interactions of people with chronic, severe aphasia.…”