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Self-Help Devices
Medical Definition: | Devices, not affixed to the body, designed to help persons having musculoskeletal or neuromuscular disabilities to perform activities involving movement. |
Communication Aids for Disabled - Equipment that provides mentally or physically disabled persons, who cannot speak effectively, with a means of communication. The aids include display boards, typewriters, cathode ray tubes, computers, and speech synthesizers. The output of such aids includes written words, artificial speech, language signs, Morse code, and pictures. | |
Wheelchairs - Chairs mounted on wheels and designed to be propelled by the occupant. |
Self-Help Devices Medical Definitions and Terms
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