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 ...

The school bus driver is trying to keep everyone safe while staying on schedule. Transportation is more than logistics. It is ...

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 ...

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 ...

A £33,000 grant has been awarded to the island’s Speech and Language Therapy Service to fund new communication technology for ...

NEW ORLEANS & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Team Gleason, a leading foundation for ALS patient support, is collaborating with Boston Children’s Hospital’s ALS Augmentative Communication Program, which ...

The National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator awarded a $749,960 grant to an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the U of A and Temple University. The team will develop augmentative ...

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 ...

Communication is crucial to understanding what needs to be done in emergency situations. However, for individuals with speech disorders or for non-native English speakers, there can be barriers ...

This June is the second anniversary of one of the most horrific and traumatic times of my life. After several weeks in the ICU and almost dying several times, I came home from the hospital with an ...

(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 ...

CYPRESS, Texas -- Archer Calder, a teenager from Cypress, Texas, grew up unable to have a conversation with his younger sister Della. She has a rare genetic disorder called Bainbridge-Ropers syndrome ...