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Treatment at the Raphael Hospital
Published in Barbara A. Wilson, Allen Paul, Rose Anita, Kubickova Veronika, Locked-In Syndrome after Brain Damage, 2018
Barbara A. Wilson, Allen Paul, Rose Anita, Kubickova Veronika
Paul is able to use mouthing words combined with partner-assisted scanning to maintain communication during sessions. Facial exercises undertaken daily, with his keyworker as well as in physiotherapy and SALT sessions, are aimed at improving oro-motor strength and range of movement. Despite right-sided facial paralysis and left-sided weakness, Paul is able to use facial expression to communicate in context.
Communication aid provision and use among children and adolescents developing aided communication: an international survey
Published in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2018
Stephen von Tetzchner, Kaisa Launonen, Beata Batorowicz, Leila Regina d’Oliveira de Paula Nunes, Cátia Crivelenti de Figueiredo Walter, Judith Oxley, Munique Massaro, Kristine Stadskleiv, Chih-Kang Yang, Débora Deliberato
Table 2 shows that the average age when the first aid was provided ranged from 30.6 months in the younger group to 54.9 months in the older group. Most of the participants had changed communication aids at least once. Among those who had changed, the average length of use of the first aid varied from 21.3 months in the younger group to 40.1 months in the older group (Table 2). At the time of the interviews, all age groups had used an average of just over three aids. The length of time they had used communication aids varied from an average of 45.2 months in the younger group to 107.9 months in the older group. One third of the participants (38.8%) had started with individual symbols or pictures and no communication board or book, and 43.8% with a communication board or book (Table 3). In all, 15% of the participants had started with an electronic aid, most of them with digitized or synthetic speech output, and 2.5% with an Etran eye-gaze board. Most of the participants used finger pointing or gaze to operate their first aid, and only 5% used switches. Direct selection was used by 72.2%, while 27.8% used scanning, almost always through partner-assisted scanning.
Visual-spatial cognition in children using aided communication
Published in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2018
Kristine Stadskleiv, Beata Batorowicz, Munique Massaro, Hans van Balkom, Stephen von Tetzchner
All of the tests place minimal demands on motor skills because they involve selection from a fixed number of possible answers. For the participants who were unable to point due to severe fine motor impairment, partner-assisted scanning was used as the response mode. Using this mode, the alternatives are pointed to systematically and the child accepts or rejects each alternative in turn. Test results are not influenced by whether the response mode is pointing with a finger or partner-assisted scanning (Kurmanaviciute & Stadskleiv, 2017).