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Presenter(s)
Frank Lunde & Liv Stabell Kuloe
Center for Assistive Technology
PB 5200, Oslo NO-0426 ,Norway
Email: frank.lunde@trygdeetaten.no
Email: liv.stabell.kulo@trygdeetaten.no
"How to express yourself when speech is lost" is an e-learning program developed at the Centre for Assistive Information technology at the Norwegian National Insurance Administration in co-operation with speech and language pathologist Liv Stabell Kulx from Sunnaas University Rehabilitation Hospital, Norway. In the years 2001 - 2003 she traveled round Norway, making interviews with users of AAC devices and their families. The project was funded by the Norwegian Fundation for Health and Rehabilitation.
The objects of this program are:
• To illustrate that there exists means of communication through AAC devices when language is still present, but speech has been lost.
• To give anyone the possibility to learn about views and knowledge of users and professionals on AAC.
• videoclips showing users of AAC devices
• short articles about AAC methods and devices
• demos of some of the devices with possibility to try some of them (eye pointing and on screen keyboard with scanning)
• the possibility to reflect over issues given by the program
We hope that this program will give AAC users, their families and professionals more knowledge in this field and thereby a greater possibility to contribute with wishes and demands in improving their own position.
Who is it for?
Persons who have or is about to get a speech impairment, their families, friends and professionals.
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