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Jolene Hyppa-Martin; Jason Lilley; Mo Chen; Jaclyn Friese; Corinne Schmidt; H. Timothy Bunnell – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) commonly results in the inability to produce natural speech, making speech-generating devices (SGDs) important. Historically, synthetic voices generated by SGDs were neither unique, nor age- or dialect-appropriate, which depersonalized SGD use. Voices generated by SGDs can now be customized via voice banking and…
Descriptors: Intelligibility, Speech Impairments, Artificial Speech, Voice Disorders
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Biggs, Elizabeth E.; Rossi, Elizabeth Burnett; Douglas, Sarah N.; Therrien, Michelle C. S.; Snodgrass, Melinda R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The global COVID-19 pandemic brought about widespread use of telepractice to provide services to children with communication disorders, including students who use aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) such as speech-generating devices. This descriptive quantitative study utilized network analysis to investigate the nature…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders
Lund, Shelley K.; Light, Janice C. – 2001
This report presents the activities, accomplishments, and outcomes of a study of the long-term outcomes of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions with individuals with severe communication disabilities. The study evaluated long-term outcomes for 7 young men (ages 19-23 years) who had used AAC systems for at least 15 years.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders