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Insights from User Testing of Jellow: A Communication Aid for Children with Developmental Disabilities

2017
The current paper reports insights from user testing of a novel pictorial, free-of-cost, desktop-based communication aid, Jellow, developed at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to enhance communication in nonverbal to minimally verbal children with developmental disabilities. We asked 7 typically developing school-age children to use the Jellow
Sudha M. Srinivasan, Ajanta Sen, Ravi Poovaiah   +2 more
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Persons with multiple disabilities manage positive leisure and communication engagement through a technology-aided program

International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2016
Objectives: Persons with multiple disabilities may frequently fail to achieve independent leisure engagement and communication with distant partners. The aim of this study was to extend the assessment of a technology-aided program providing support in the aforementioned areas with nine participants with multiple disabilities.Methods: The program ...
Mark F. O’Reilly, Jeff Sigafoos, Viviana Perilli, Carmen Spagnuolo, Nirbhay N. Singh, Adele Boccasini, Giulio E. Lancioni   +6 more
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New Telecommunications Relay Services, Other Communication Advances, Will Aid Disabled People

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993
PHYSICIANS can now "talk" with their deaf patients on the telephone everyday and nearly everywhere in the United States—something previously almost impossible—and at the same time be assured of complete confidentiality. This useful technological advance became possible this summer when a reliable telecommunications relay service for the estimated 26 ...
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Extending technology-aided leisure and communication programs to persons with spinal cord injury and post-coma multiple disabilities

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2013
These two studies extended technology-aided programs to promote leisure and communication opportunities to a man with cervical spinal cord injury and a post-coma man with multiple disabilities.The studies involved the use of ABAB designs, in which A and B represented baseline and intervention phases, respectively.
Mario Signorino, Fiora D’Amico, Doretta Oliva, Roberto Trignani, Giovanni Sasanelli, Nirbhay N. Singh, Mark F. O’Reilly, Giulio E. Lancioni, Riccardo Antonio Ricciuti, Jeff Sigafoos   +9 more
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An Investigation of Aided Language Stimulation: Does it Increase AAC Use with Adults with Developmental Disabilities and Complex Communication Needs?

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2009
A single subject ABAB design was used to determine the efficacy of aided language stimulation to teach the use of AAC techniques to adults with developmental disabilities. Sixteen participants were divided into two equal groups. In each group, half of the participants were able to communicate functionally using spoken language and half had complex ...
Julia B. Stoner, Ann R. Beck, Marcia Dennis   +2 more
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Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Analysis of Survey Data on Uptake of Aided AAC, and Loneliness Experiences

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2010
This study describes uptake of augmentative and alternative communication systems by adults with intellectual disabilities; their ability to self-report at interview; differences in self-reported loneliness experiences by communication mode; and predictors of loneliness.
Sarah Taub, Joshua Engler, Karen Auerbach, Sheryl A. Larson, Roger J. Stancliffe, K. Charlie Lakin   +5 more
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The Visual Support for Adults with Moderate Learning and Communication Disabilities: How Visual Aids Support Learning

International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
For many individuals with special needs, learning can be problematic when a standard approach of teaching and assessment is employed.
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Extending the Assessment of Technology-Aided Programs to Support Leisure and Communication in People with Acquired Brain Injury and Extensive Multiple Disabilities

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2015
Intervention programs for people with acquired brain injury and extensive motor and communication impairment need to be diversified according to their characteristics and environment. These two studies assessed two technology-aided programs for supporting leisure (i.e., access to songs and videos) and communication (i.e., expressing needs and feelings
Jorge Navarro, Mark F. O’Reilly, Giulio E. Lancioni, Fiora D’Amico, Fabio Colonna, Jeff Sigafoos, Nirbhay N. Singh, Crocifissa Lanzilotti, Francesca Buonocunto, Sara Quaranta   +9 more
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Aids and equipment for the disabled in the community.

Nursing times, 1991
The redefinition of disability from a medical problem inherent in the individual, to a socially constructed problem affected by the world in which that individual lives, has led to an emphasis and exploration of the interrelationship between disease/disorder, impairment, disability and handicap.
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Characterizing the energy use of disabled people in the European Union towards inclusion in the energy transition

Nature Energy, 2021
Diana Ivanova, Lucie Middlemiss
exaly