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Introduction/Background
Visual aids are used to enhance speech. They play a role of increasing the chance of audience understands of the topic of discussion. They also assist the presenter to explain challenging points, impact the audience as well as increasing their enthusiasm, thereby making the information visual to the audience. In other words, visual aids are an item which has the visual impact of understanding a concept that would rather be considered challenging to understand. These may include photographs, video clips, and charts among others.
In particular, visual aids are used for various purposes like clarification and examples, summary, it helps the speaker to reduce significantly, the number of words used during the presentation as always said, “one picture speaks better than a thousand words.” Visual aid makes a point more memorable; it helps in emphasis, enhances credibility, simplifies the information, and maintains the interest of the audience.
Preparing the visual aid
The first step in the preparation of a visual aid requires the speaker to think on how the visual aid will support the message and what impact he would want on the audience. The presenter needs to ensure that the visual aid is in line with the speech. The image cluttering must be avoided for the sake of clarity and simplicity. The chosen visual aid must be of high quality and concise. The style must be consistent throughout the presentation. These may include colour, font size and fond type. Data presentation needs to be done through graphs and charts. Visual aids are only meant to highlight points. As such they should contain very little literary work? For the case of PowerPoint presentation, there must be one key point, one message and one example per slide. The presentation should be complete even without the visual aid so that in case of a technical problem, the presenter may still carry on. The presenter should finally rehearse the presentation and ask a friend for feedback to enhance correction before the real audience.
Preparing for presentation
There is a need for the presenter to know how the presentation room looks like to synchronize it with the visual aid. The practice is necessary before the actual presentation to find feedback from peers. Use appropriate colour for the right information.
Evidence
Several research findings have concluded that visually displayed information is remembered more than the written or spoken word. Most learning occurs visually and research posits that this account for 83% of learnt materials. Bruner, who is a psychologist, conducting a series of research which concluded that learning occurs effectively with 10% of what is heard, 20% read and 70% what is visible.
Summary
It is important to include visual aid in a presentation because they assist the speaker to experience ease in passing information and making the audience learn the material more coherently. They help in adding colour and attractiveness to the presentation. Visual aids spare the presenters from using too many words. In conclusion, a presentation with visual aid is far much more effective than that without visual aid.