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Eina! Ouch! Eish! Professionals’ perceptions of how children with cerebral palsy communicate about pain in South African school settings : implications for the use of AAC [PDF]

, 2015
Most children with severe cerebral palsy experience daily pain that affects their school performance. School professionals need to assess pain in these children, who may also have communication difficulties, in order to pay attention to the pain and ...
Adolfsson, Margareta, Nilsson, Stefan, Adolfsson, Margareta,, Johnson, Ensa, Nilsson, Stefan,, Johnson, Ensa,   +5 more
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Parental perceptions of social life before and after attending a parent training program for children with complex communication needs: the ComAlong example

, 2023
Parent training programs aimed at improving language outcomes for children with complex communication needs have predominantly been evaluated on child-centered outcomes and less often on the impact on social life or parental well-being.
Backman, Ellen,, Jakob Åsberg Johnels, Thunberg, Gunilla,, Ellen Backman, Åsberg Johnels, Jakob,, Thunberg, G., Gunilla Thunberg, Backman, E.   +7 more
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Communication Support for People with ALS

Neurology Research International, 2011
Almost all people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) experience a motor speech disorder, such as dysarthria, as the disease progresses. At some point, 80 to 95% of people with ALS are unable to meet their daily communication needs using natural ...
David Beukelman, Susan Fager, Amy Nordness   +2 more
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Knowledge of AAC Devices in Pakistani Speech Therapists

Journal Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences, 2020
Background: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is a term which is used for the communication techniques that usually substitute or enhance speech widely. Classical Greeks and Romans used AAC for the deaf persons.
Muhammad Sikander Ghayas Khan, Ayesha Kamal Butt, Qurrat ul Ain, Madiha Sikander, Rabia Ghayas   +4 more
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Drop‐on‐Demand Printed Negative Dielectric Anisotropy Liquid Crystal Droplets for Adaptive Complex Beam Manipulation and Assessment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Printed negative‐dielectric‐anisotropy liquid‐crystal droplets enable multidimensional full‐vectorial optical‐field sensing across polarization, phase, and wavelength, while also generating tunable skyrmionic‐like complex optical fields. ABSTRACT Adaptive manipulation of vectorial optical fields is important for optical metrology, imaging, and ...
Jinge Guo, Xuke Qiu, Runchen Zhang, Qihao Han, Liangyu Deng, Yishun Lu, Zimo Zhao, Mengmeng Li, Waqas Kamal, Junseok Ma, Yongge Ma, Steve J. Elston, Alfonso A. Castrejón‐Pita, Stephen M. Morris, Chao He   +14 more
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A call for innovative social media research in the field of augmentative and alternative communication

, 2017
© 2017 International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) social media research is relatively new, and is built on a foundation of research on use of the Internet and social media by ...
Hemsley, B, Balandin, S, Palmer, S, Dann, S   +3 more
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Microfluidic Engineering of Microgels: A Review of Emerging Technologies, Materials, Fabrication Strategies, and Applications

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Recent advances in microfluidic technologies for microgel fabrication are critically reviewed, highlighting the capabilities and limitations of major microfluidic platforms and discussing how platform design, material selection, and crosslinking strategies influence microgel architecture and functionality. Current challenges and future opportunities in
Afshin Abrishamkar, Laura Neely, Cynthia Pham, Nada Ibrahim, Alexis Larios‐Cervantes, Ben A. Kertesz, Todd Hoare   +6 more
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Didattica Speciale per le Disabilità Comunicative: il Potere della Comunicazione secondo Janice Light

Studi sulla Formazione, 2017
The Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is an assistive technology which can compensate the communication deficits associated with various developmental disabilities.
Saverio Fontani
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Drug Repurposing for Treating NCOR‐Related Intellectual Disability

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
An autism‐associated NCOR1 heterozygous mutation upregulates NRGs and activates NRG backward signaling in hypothalamic GABAergic neurons in mouse models, leading to Gabra2 downregulation and cognitive deficits, which can be therapeutically targeted by repurposing FDA‐approved drugs.
Yan Kong, Wenjun Zhou, Yuxiang Sun, Zihan Huang, Zhiyue Liu, Udhaya Kumar. S, Chenyan Li, Yi Lu, Chengchuang Song, Veronica C. Ciliberto, Makenna Mack, Lana E. Kim, Zhaoyong Hu, Fang Luo, Aihua Cao, Zheng Sun   +15 more
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Preliminary Study of Validating Vocabulary Selection and Organization of A Manual Communication Board in Malay. [PDF]

, 2014
An integral component of a language-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system is providing vocabulary typical of fluent native language speakers.
Onwi, Nadwah
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