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The Fife Assessment Centre for Communication through Technology (FACCT) provides a Fife-wide service to children and adults whose communication ability is limited due to a severe oral communication difficulty. This may have resulted from conditions present from birth, such as cerebral palsy or learning disabilities, or develop later in life, from conditions such as head injury, motor neurone disease or stroke.
The service is jointly funded by Education, Social Work and Health, and the aim of the service is to match individuals with augmentative and/or alternative communication devices and systems, to enable them to speak for themselves. The equipment provided could be as basic as a picture or symbol book, or an alphabet-spelling chart. Alternatively, it could be more complex, such as a computer-based communication device with speech output.
The service is staffed by an inter-disciplinary team - speech and language therapists, teacher, technician, resource development support worker and admin support - that works in conjunction with parents, carers and any professionals involved with an individual. Assessment of an individual's communication abilities and follow-up support may be carried out at various locations including home, pre school or school, day centre and hospital. The team also provides advice and training in the wide range of augmentative and alternative communication systems and devices available and resources to view and borrow.
An individual with a communication difficulty can be referred through an open referral system. The agreement of the individual, parents or carers and key professionals involved is required. Referral forms are available from various Education and Health Service locations or from FACCT.
For more information contact
Sandra Miller, Principal Teacher - FACCTTel: 08451 55 55 55 + Ext 44 20 00 Contact Sandra Miller online
By Post: Fife Council, Auchterderran Centre, 14 Woodend Road, Auchterderran, Lochgelly KY5 0NE
Fife Assessment Centre for Communication Through Technology is available at
- Auchterderran