Assistive and Augmentive Communication for the Disabled: Intelligent Technologies for Communication, Learning and Teaching

✍ Scribed by Lau Bee Theng

• Publisher: IGI Global snippet
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Assistive and augmentive communication is an emerging research area receiving much support from the disabled community. It enables communication for those with impairments or restrictions on the production or comprehension of spoken or written language.Assistive and Augmentive Communication for the Disabled: Intelligent Technologies for Communication, Learning and Teaching provides benefits to the professionals and researchers working in various disciplines in the field, such as special education, healthcare, computational intelligence and information technology. Moreover, this book provides insights and support to individuals who are concerned with the development of children and adults with disabilities. It covers recently completed studies as well as ongoing researches to provide a cutting-edge window into this area of promising, new applications.