# Materials and local preparation

Bare minimum: broad existing blank paper or a reusable board, a familiar locally suitable marking tool or an actually willing competent helper, and the child's usual communication. Start with one wanted mark. No purchase, printing, cutting, binding, adhesives, small loose pieces, food handling, camera, microphone, account, upload or trip is required.

## Make it fit today

Use broad existing paper/board and familiar locally suitable tools. An agreeing helper can make on the child's accepted creative directions. Check stable reachable work area, material/tool suitability and ordinary local arrangements first. No cutting, binding, small loose pieces, body task, device, purchase or printing is required. Never move the child's body or communication equipment to complete a work.

Read one prompt at a time; allow established speech, sign, pointing, AAC (augmentative and alternative communication), exact description, wanted scribing, pauses and another sitting. These are choices for anyone, not diagnoses or fixed learning styles. Stop, rest, help, private keeping, changing the job and pass remain available. No name, health, address, family history or identity disclosure is needed.

Child creative decisions, child tool operation, helper operation and adult-added details are separate. Adult fabrication on actual accepted child direction can produce an actual child-authored work; it does not demonstrate child tool handling. Offered words/shapes chosen by the child are supported selections, not silent independent invention. An unmade specification stays a plan. Description access is not independent visual viewing. An imagined action, drawn user or planned message is not an actual event.

## Source/recipient preparation is conditional

A competent educator checks any actual source/work and genuine account before offering it, including item-specific rights, culture/ICIP, content, access and actual learner/setting suitability. An available online picture is not permission to copy/adapt it. No community/First Nations image, word, local story or human voice is invented here.

An actual own work may be kept private. Before any chosen sharing, agree maker permission, real recipient willingness, medium, handling and whether a response is wanted. Either may decline. The optional live familiar cue can be omitted or described silently; no recorded sound or required hearing/vocalisation.

Keep pupil records under local school policy; publish no identifiers. An own valued language/usual communication is welcome with competent local support. No reviewed translation or language competence is supplied; a new translation needs exact locale/meaning/consent/access checked by a qualified human before use.

The five ordinary aids are optional source-text making prompts, usable by read-aloud or usual communication. They are not already-generated PDFs/images or an operating digital composer. National wording and Queensland guidance leave current local implementation and reporting to the school.

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