| The use of electronic augmentative and alternative communication techniques may enable more frequent patient-initiated communication among nonspeaking ICU patients. |
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| This augmentative beauty is what's lost when back matter is banished to a third literary space like the Internet. |
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| Michael writes: ISAAC is a wonderful international community of people devoted to augmentative and alternative communication. |
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| Similar to other consumers, confidentiality is of the utmost importance for people using augmentative communication as well. |
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| In communicating via augmentative styles, the need for a properly trained communication facilitator is essential. |
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| When I can give some hope to a parent of an augmentative communication user I feel good. |
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| However, these children may be taught alternative or augmentative forms of communication such as the use of meaningful sounds, gestures, signs, or pictorial systems. |
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| As their use is increasing worldwide, there are currently about 100 companies mass producing and selling such organisms as augmentative forms of biological control. |
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| The way the organization has functioned since its conception has always been through dialogue with all the stakeholders in augmentative and alternative communication. |
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| The first attempt to expand the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems to children and adolescents with intellectual impairments was thus a consequence of this initiative. |
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| Some patients benefit from therapy to learn strategies for improving swallowing, muscle strength, and intelligibility of speech or to learn augmentative and alternative methods of communication. |
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| Those who are unable to produce speech may also consider an electronic augmentative communication device with voice output so that they can communicate on the phone and talk to unfamiliar people. |
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| One of our main objectives should be to make the world understand that augmentative and alternative communication is not a preoccupation of a marginal and small group. |
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| The person must have the option to choose how they want to communicate. i.e. bring a support person, use an augmentative communication device, etc. |
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