Minspeak Moments

Paul Andres on Developing Multi-lingual AAC Vocabularies


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Paul Andres, an Occupational Therapist in Germany who worked at Prentke Romich Deutschland, first as a consultant then as a Minspeak Application Program developer, creating the popular Quasselkiste vocabulary.


Later, he worked with Semantic Compaction Systems to take on a much broader role supporting the development and use of other non-english vocabulary sets. He was also instrumental in creating the Realize Language online AAC data analysis system for both the English- and German-speaking markets.

In this episode, Paul talks about his early years in AAC and some of the challenges in creating vocabularies in languages other than English.

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Recommended text
Nation, I. (2001). Learning Vocabulary in Another Language (Cambridge Applied Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Minspeak MomentsBy Russell T. Cross