Word prediction, or predictive editing, has a long history as a tool for augmentative and assistive communication. Improvements in the state-of-the-art can still be achieved, for instance by training personalized statistical language models. We developed the word prediction system Soothsayer.1 The main innovation of Soothsayer is that it not The system is available as an interactive demo at htt...

The use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) services and supports with infants and young children has been limited, owing to a number of myths about the appropriateness of AAC use with this population. This article will provide an overview of some of the myths that have hampered the inclusion of AAC into early intervention service delivery and refutes them. It will then examine ...

Users with disability interact with augmentative and alternative communication devices, environmental control units, and computers via an access technology. While caregivers routinely exploit contextual information to interact meaningfully with individuals who are nonverbal and have severe motor impairments, access technologies to date have largely ignored context. Contextual factors include th...

Sc@ut Communicators are augmentative and alternative communication systems (AAC) that have been developed by the Sc@ut platform. These communicators help people with communication problems and their main feature is that they may be adapted to each individual. These communicators are currently being used by autistic children, and professionals require us to develop a system with greater autonomy...

Using Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices in combination with Environmental Control Systems (ECS) offers two benefits for severely and multiple impaired children. First of all, they are in a position to overcome some of their communication and manipulation barriers. Second, the use of these tools in the hands of dedicated therapists and pedagogues can contribute significant...

This paper provides an innovative form of ―Translation of unintelligible speech of user into synthetic speech using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device‖. This AAC device converts the meaningless speech into understandable speech .The development of this system is carried out by building small vocabulary from both the utterance and from the inaudible speech of the autism peop...

Augmentative biological control relies on the inundative release of natural enemies pests that are usually mass-reared in laboratory. This practice substantially reduces environmental impact pest agriculture by reducing use insecticides. However, there many reasons to expect more or less deleterious effects biodiversity: if enemy is not specific pest, large populations predators can directly af...

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) supports communication process of people who have communication disabilities and is based on the use of symbols. Multidisciplinary research is undertaken aiming to explore and create interoperable and scalable symbol based communication services for different user devices. The paper introduces model of the platform architecture for developing and...