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UbiCuts: Wearable communication and surveillance aids for older adults and the disabled [PDF]
Gerontechnology, 2014 Purpose: Population ageing is widespread across the whole globe. However, current devices that facilitate social communication are not easily accessible to older adults. Our on-going project aims to provide wearable communication and surveillance aids for older adults and the disabled, allowing them to reach their full potential for social and mental ...
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Pre-verbal and verbal pattern as predictors for the implementation of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) in autistic children [PDF]
Revista CEFAC, 2023 Purpose: to investigate the preverbal and verbal patterns in autism spectrum disorder, to more easily predict the need for implementation of the Picture Exchange Communication System in autistic children who are about to start speech language therapy ...
Simoni Camilo +4 more
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Development of communication skills in an adolescent with autism, using alternative communication: a case report [PDF]
Revista CEFAC, 2023 Alternative communication has been successfully used in interventions to develop communication skills in children with ASD. However, few studies in Brazil have approached nonverbal adolescents with autism.
Ana Cristina de Albuquerque Montenegro +5 more
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Challenges in Assessing Aphasia in Congenital Blind Patients: A Case Report
Reports, 2023 This case report focuses on assessing aphasia in a congenitally blind patient with an ischemic lesion using the Aachener Aphasia Test. The method involved adapting existing assessment tools to the patient, integrating Braille as an accessible technology,
Maria Grazia Nicoletta +3 more
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Disusing the mobility aids devices in the elderlies: how much and why?
Social Determinants of Health, 2022 Background: Given that society is rapidly aging, identifying the problems of the elderly can help society and individuals, so in this study investigates the abundance of elderlies in need of mobility aids devices and the factors related to their disuse.
Zohre Rahaei +3 more
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Comunicação Aumentativa e Alternativa e Habilidades de Linguagem de Crianças com Paralisia Cerebral: uma Revisão Sistemática [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial, 2021 RESUMO: O objetivo deste artigo foi identificar quais os sistemas de comunicação aumentativa e alternativa interferem nas habilidades de linguagem de crianças com paralisia cerebral. A questão norteadora foi: Quais os métodos de comunicação aumentativa e
Vanessa Souza Gigoski de MIRANDA +3 more
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Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 2023 Abstract Purpose of Review Aided AAC modeling is an umbrella term for when communication partners model language on an aided AAC system to support an individual’s comprehension and/or communication development. This scoping review aims to provide an overview of aided AAC modeling studies targeting individuals with ...
Helena Wandin +3 more
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RUDN Journal of Informatization in Education, 2022 Problem and goal. The annual growth in the number of people with disabilities determines the relevance of the problems of inclusive education, the solution of which requires new teaching aids that are more interactive and visual than classical tools ...
Roman E. Aslanov +2 more
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Bath Aids and the Subsequent Development of Bathing Disability in Community‐Living Older Persons [PDF]
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2007 OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the availability of bath aids may forestall the subsequent development of bathing disability.DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.SETTING: Greater New Haven, Connecticut.PARTICIPANTS: Five hundred one nondisabled (required no personal assistance in bathing) community‐living residents aged 73 and older.MEASUREMENTS: The
Thomas M. Gill +2 more
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Body Language as a Communicative Aid amongst Language Impaired Students: Managing Disabilities
English Language Teaching, 2021 Language impairment is a condition of impaired ability in expressing ideas, information, needs and in understanding what others say. In the teaching and learning of English as a second language, this disability poses a lot of difficulties for impaired students as well as the teacher in the pedagogic process.
Basil Okwudili Nwokolo +2 more
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