Word board
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Word board A word board or communications board is a simple means to help people who have lost the ability to speak. A word board may typically be provided to those recovering after a stroke
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To communicate, the user points at the relevant words, letters or symbols on the board. Typically the following are included:
Yes |No | (☺) |
|Want| That
ABCD EFG
HIJK LMNOP
QRS X TUV
& WX ? YZ
Why|What|When|Where
There are now sophisticated electronic speech synthesis
devices available for this purpose.
Stroke
A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
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To communicate, the user points at the relevant words, letters or symbols on the board. Typically the following are included:
Yes |No | (☺) |
|Want| That
ABCD EFG
HIJK LMNOP
QRS X TUV
& WX ? YZ
Why|What|When|Where
There are now sophisticated electronic speech synthesis
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
devices available for this purpose.