• explore pictographic/ideographic writing systems, explore alternative ways of notating ideas
  • it's important to note though that some hieroglyph systems are very different -- some symbols represent an idea or concept, while at other times, that same symbol can represent words/letters. Egyptian hieroglyphs are very much this way.
  • Blissymbols are a modern pictographic conlang
  • some Wikipedia pages that might be close to what she is describing
    • semantic pragmatic disorder
    • mixed receptive-expressive language disorder
    • augmentative and alternative communication — more related to speech?