Digital Storytelling

The use of digital media — including photographs, video clips, audio recordings, and text — to create and share personal narratives. In the context of accessibility and AAC, digital storytelling offers an alternative to text-based and real-time spoken communication, allowing people with speech or language impairments to compose rich, multimedia narratives asynchronously and share them in social interactions. This approach recognises that storytelling is a fundamental form of human social engagement through which people build relationships, express identity, and share experiences. Digital storytelling tools can enable non-speaking people to participate in social interactions with a level of personality and narrative depth that conventional symbol-based AAC output cannot achieve.