Emerging technologies in augmentative and alternative communication: restorative and compensatory approaches to acquired disorders of communication

摘要: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies are underutilized in the treatment of acquired disorders for a variety reasons. A potential AAC user may prefer to regain lost skills rather than have replace them with less natural means communicating. The technology be rejected because its appearance, inefficiencies supporting typical communicative exchanges, or complexities use. Further, many individuals who sustained injury their brains exhibit highly idiosyncratic language disturbances requiring specialized applications that simply do not exist. This review article examines several current emerging impact often complex cognitive linguistic sequelae neurological injury. begins synopsis progress areas such as speech input output, processing, interface technologies, graphics make consideration new generation devices possible. is followed by discussion specific aspects breakdown might minimized eliminated through address restoration function well compensation loss function. Lastly, addresses conceptual attitudinal shifts must occur if useful accepted families. key successful application rests researchers, clinicians consumers; they provide guidance product developers so device designs needs effective acceptable ways.