Building on residual speech: A portable processing prosthesis for aphasia

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1401-1414

  Linebarger, Marcia C ^a,d   Romania, John F ^a   Fink, Ruth B ^b   Bartlett, Megan R ^b   Schwartz, Myrna F ^b,c  

^a Psycholinguistic Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

AAC; Aphasia; Assistive technology; Augmentative and alternative communication; Communication aid; Communication disorders; Language disorders; Nonfluent aphasia; Processing prosthesis; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AAC; APHASIA; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION AID; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; NONFLUENT APHASIA; REHABILITATION;

LINGUISTICS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PROSTHETICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

APHASIA; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; VOICE;

APHASIA; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 65949096102     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2007.10.0171     Document Type: Article

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