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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 ...
Schubert Foo, Natalie Pang, Xian‐En Zhang   +2 more
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Communication with Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Nurses’ Perspectives and Practice [PDF]

Nursing Reports
Background: Effective communication with mechanically ventilated patients is essential to delivering patient-centered care and ensuring psychological well-being.
Ruba F. Zeadnih, Ayman M. Al-Qaaneh, Heba N. Hudhud, Islam Bani Mohammad   +3 more
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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, Fernanda Miranda da Cruz, Sheila C Caetano, Jacy Perissinoto, Ana Carina Tamanaha   +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, Gabrielle Araújo Leite, Daniele Albuquerque Alves de Moura, Amanda Gabrielly Santana Silva, Ivana Arrais de Lavor Navarro Xavier, Rafaella Asfora Lima   +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, Francesco Riganello, Lucia Francesca Lucca, Maria Daniela Cortese   +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, maryam tavakoli, Alireza Beigomi, Sara Jambarsang   +3 more
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Occupational therapy and alternative communication: collaborative intervention with communication partners of a child with cerebral palsy

Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional, 2021
Introduction: Occupational therapy can use alternative communication resources, from a systemic perspective, for the occupational engagement of children with cerebral palsy who have limitations in oral and/or written communication. Objective: To describe
Mariana Gurian Manzini, Mirela de Oliveira Figueiredo, Ana Carolina Gurian Manzini, Claudia Maria Simões Martinez   +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, Karoline de Abreu SILVEIRA, Sinara Thaís RECH, Deisi Cristina Gollo Marques VIDOR   +3 more
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Systematization of procedures for the implementation of alternative and extended communication in a general ICU

Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional, 2020
Objective: To describe the procedures before the intervention of occupational therapy with patients having communicative difficulties and hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: Action research performed at an ICU of a reference hospital in
Patrícia Santos de Oliveira Coelho, Kelly do Valle, Gabriela Pereira do Carmo, Thainá Rodrigues de Melo dos Santos, Janaína Santos Nascimento, Miryam Bonadiu Pelosi   +5 more
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A Scoping Review of Aided AAC Modeling for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities and Emergent Communication

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, Helena Tegler, Lena Svedberg, Linn Johnels   +3 more
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