Speech is heard but if one cannot respond with speech themselves, are there other ways? These alternative means of communication are called Augmentative Alternative Communication or AAC tools. sign ...

(TNS) — Ereeni Roulakis is a speech language pathologist who uses play-based speech and language therapy to help New Orleans children with communication disorders and differences. Such disorders can ...

Under the harsh fluorescent lights of an emergency room, most people can verbally communicate their symptoms and severity of pain to a nurse. Those who cannot use their voice to communicate must rely ...

A Bristol-based technology company that helps people who have difficulty with writing or speech has partnered with specialist growth buyout investment firm Verdane.

Physicians are being told to play a bigger role in ensuring that children with disabilities have access to needed augmentative and alternative communication technologies. In a clinical report out this ...

Augmentative and alternative communication tools help people who have difficulty with speech. Sam Sennott of Portland State University says building these tools with artificial intelligence is ...

Funding clinical services for clients who cannot communicate through speech is the ultimate goal of a $220,000 grant awarded to the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, College of Arts ...

Kaili Webster has cerebral palsy. Mostly non-verbal, she finds her voice with the use of an eye-controlled communication ...

WESTFORD --On a cool, sunny Saturday morning, the Mahady family ventured to the Forge Beach playground in Westford -- where Weston Mahady, 3, loves to go. He led his parents, Ali and Patrick Mahady, ...

Claire Davies is a member of the Canadian Accessibility Network and collaborates with the International Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She receives funding from the Government ...