... systems Communication Request verbalization Intellectual disability Blindness Deafness Motor impairment People with intellectual and multiple disabilities are likely to encounter very serious difficulties in acquiring functional communication skills and particularly expressive communication...

...Fiora D'Amico; Filippo Boscia; Andrea Cannone; Gloria Alberti; Giulio Lancioni Purpose The study was to develop and test a new technology-aided program to support basic communication and leisure of people with extensive neuro-motor and speech impairments. Design/methodology/approach The study...

... and social networks. Media accounts have highlighted both the apparently miraculous impacts of technology on supporting communication and learning for people with autism, as well as significant concerns about whether technology use is healthy, safe and socially appropriate for children and young people...

...Rebecca Checkley; Lisa Reidy; Sue Chantler; Nick Hodge; Katie Holmes Purpose This naturalistic study adapted exploratory school practice in order to support empirically‐informed decision making in the provision of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies for children...

...‐generating device (SGD). Design/methodology/approach Activity‐based communication analysis (ACA) was used as the basis for analysing and discussing of communicative behaviours in video recordings made before and during SGD intervention. The coded communicative behaviours were engagement in activity, role...

...Michael Clarke; Jannet Wright; Christine Sherlock Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the journey of a young person with severe and complex communication needs from no formal expressive communication system, to a point where he is motivated and able to use a text based voice output...

...Louise Greenstock; Brendon Wickham Purpose This paper seeks to provide an overview of research that is currently underway at The University of Melbourne, Australia, exploring the ways in which people with little or no speech communicate with general practitioners (GPs). Design/methodology...

... and young people, especially those who may have learning difficulties. Key words Animation; Danish school system; literacy; visual; communication. Introduction Animation is a powerful medium and should be as common in schools as blackboard and chalk, or speaking and writing. During my fifteen years of work...

...Jonathan Chetwynd How are we to engage people with low literacy in the burgeoning development of the internet? It is well documented that a large minority of the population is functionally illiterate. How might they be encouraged to communicate, author and publish work as they develop skills...

...Joan Murphy; Cindy Gray; Sylvia Cox The aims of this project were to establish whether Talking Mats, a low tech communication framework, helps people with dementia to communicate and to examine how effective the Talking Mats framework is for people at different stages of dementia. Thirty‐one people...