Two persons with severe post-coma motor impairment and minimally conscious state use assistive technology to access stimulus events and social contact

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 367-372

  Lancioni, Giulio E ^a   Singh, Nirbhay N ^b   O'Reilly, Mark F ^c   Sigafoos, Jeff ^d   Buonocunto, Francesca ^e   Sacco, Valentina ^e   Colonna, Fabio ^e   Navarro, Jorge ^e   Megna, Gianfranco ^a   Chiapparino, Claudia ^a   De Pace, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^e S Raffaele Rehabilitation Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMA; COMMUNICATION AID; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; STIMULATION;

ADULT; COMA; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SELF-HELP DEVICES;

EID: 70649089385     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17483100903038584     Document Type: Article

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