AAC to support conversation in persons with moderate Alzheimer's disease

AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 219-231

  Fried Oken, Melanie ^a   Rowland, Charity ^a   Daniels, Darlene ^a   Dixon, Mayling ^a   Fuller, Bret ^b   Mills, Carolyn ^a   Noethe, Glory ^a   Small, Jeon ^c   Still, Kevin ^a   Oken, Barry ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AAC; Aided conversation; Alzheimer's disease; Dementia

Indexed keywords

AAC; AIDED CONVERSATION; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; APPLIED RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION AIDS; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; DEMENTIA; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; EXTERNAL MEMORY; PILOT EXPERIMENT; SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION; VOICE OUTPUT;

COMMUNICATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION AID; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PILOT STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 84871591530     PISSN: 07434618     EISSN: 14773848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07434618.2012.732610     Document Type: Article

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