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Communication Aids for Disabled

Medical Definition:	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.
Also Called:	Communication Boards,Speech Synthesizers,Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf,Text Telecommunication Devices,Text Telecommunication
Previously Indexed:	Communication (1966-1979),Nonverbal Communication (1970-1979)

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