Accessible internet training package helps people with aphasia cross the digital divide

Aphasiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-280

  Egan, Jennifer ^a   Worrall, Linda ^a   Oxenham, Dorothea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL COMPUTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTERNET; LEARNING; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH REHABILITATION; SPEECH THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHING; TRAINING; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 2342599662     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030344000562     Document Type: Article

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