Gyeonggi-do Installs 'Visual Support Boards' with Drawings and Text at COVID-19 Screening Clinics

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province will install visual support boards at 'COVID-19' screening clinics.

On the 2nd, Gyeonggi Province announced that it has provided 'picture and letter boards' and 'visual support boards' at 124 COVID-19 screening clinics to assist test subjects who have difficulty communicating.

The picture and letter boards are communication aids that allow people who have difficulty expressing themselves verbally, such as the hearing impaired, elderly with hearing loss, and foreigners, to convey their intentions to medical staff by pointing to pictures or letters during the COVID-19 testing process.

The picture and letter boards consist of two sheets, enabling communication with medical staff using Korean consonants and vowels, as well as expressing the current physical condition of the examinee.

The visual support boards consist of 12 sheets that depict the registration process and examination details through pictures, helping examinees understand the medical examination process.

They were produced in collaboration with Gyeonggi Province, the Gyeonggi Rehabilitation Engineering Service Research Support Center, and the Speech Therapy AAC Center Saramgwa Sotong, and versions in Korean, English, and Chinese were created.

Park No-geuk, Director of the Disability Welfare Division of the province, stated, "We expect this to greatly reduce the risk of infection through droplets not only in communication with people with disabilities and foreigners but also in communication with non-disabled people."

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