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AAC Challenge
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We have a secondary mainstream student, with failing vision, severe tremour and not that clear speech. Any ideas of what we could try??????? Thank-you
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Independent AAC Assessment and Funding
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Hi,Im Helen Hendrickson,of Central Communication Consultancy.I am a former SLT and researcher/academic lecturer and writer with a specialism and fervent interest in AAC.I more recently managed Health and Spocial Care services for children and Adults in and acrss an NHS region I recently decided to research and set up a Community Interest Company... more »
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Job Vacancy for Research Lead
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Communication Matters - Research Matters: An AAC evidence base JOB VACANCY - RESEARCH LEAD Contract until March 2013 £50,000 pro-rata (12-15 days per annum increasing to 12 days in the last 6 months) This is a ground breaking opportunity for an experienced senior manager, used to working at board level, with research knowledge to lead an... more »
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Funding for older adults with acquired speech loss?
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Many members of my site 'Living With Ataxia' are much older when they develop Ataxia (40-60yrs) and for the ones who have speech severely affected they often struggle to get funding for communication aids. I was lucky to get funding from my local NHS ECC (Exceptional Cases Committee) due to having more than one rare condition for most of my... more »
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Scanning Worksheets and Past Papers
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Hi All, I have had a query from a family about whether it is possible to scan school worksheets and past exam papers into a computer for users to input the answers onscreen. I'm thinking that this is theoretically possible, you could scan in and just type over the top, but it could conceivably get quite complicated, with issues around font size etc. Does anyone know if there's a nice, neat, easy way of doing this that I could recommend?... more »
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Apps for Environmental Control (for UK TV) to go on iPad
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Anyone have one of the IR remote apps and dongles on their iPhone/iPod Touch to work their TV's in UK? I seen minired eye which seems to be based in US and although they ship to UK, I got no idea whether it will work with UK brands (Philips and Bush TV's here) I have seen a Sky plus app that seems to work for iphone but i think... more »
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Abridged summary of cm-aac-forum@googlegroups.com - 19 Messages in 4 Topics
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In response to my previous message and some of the resonses that I have had. We were not critising or 'putting down' Dynavox. The support and service that we have and are recieving is fantastic! We were simply trying to find other people, who either work with or are hard users themselves, who use the same batteries as us and experiance the same... more »
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Switch access
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We have a patient on the ward at the moment who has been communicating only via eye movement to yes no questions (he can open and close his eyes but its slow and ?consistent). He now has some head movement though fatigues really impacts- we improvised using a pal pad switch with his head movement but this was not consistent or reliable.... more »
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