High-tech AAC and severe aphasia: Candidacy for TouchSpeak (TS)

Aphasiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 459-474

  van de Sandt Koenderman, W Mieke E ^a,b   Wiegers, Jiska ^a   Wielaert, Sandra M ^a   Duivenvoorden, Hugo J ^b   Ribbers, Gerard M ^a,b  

^a Erasmus MC University Medical Center and Rijndam Rehabilitation Center Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONDUCTION APHASIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACILITATED COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH THERAPY;

EID: 34247580760     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030601146023     Document Type: Article

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