How to speak when you don't have a voice | BBC Ideas

Some disabled people have no voice or are hard to understand. That doesn't mean they have nothing to say, says filmmaker Jemima Hughes. She explains how alternative and augmentative communication aids, or AAC work and why giving people time to speak is really important.

Made by Jemima Hughes & Screen South.

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