(TNS) — Ereeni Roulakis is a speech language pathologist who uses play-based speech and language therapy to help New Orleans children with communication disorders and differences. Such disorders can ...

Oliver Wendt, a Purdue University assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, demonstrates how the SPEAK all! app allows the user to select images to create a sentence. A version of ...

Owen Duncan, 5, is autistic, non-verbal and has a global developmental delay. He needs an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device to communicate his wants and needs. The device is about ...

Physicians are being told to play a bigger role in ensuring that children with disabilities have access to needed augmentative and alternative communication technologies. In a clinical report out this ...

To cope, some autistic people try to mimic non-autistic behavior by studying gestures, taking acting classes, or copying characters from TV. Others prefer to communicate in writing, where the pressure ...

Vidya Sagar, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that works with the disabled community, plans to expand augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to help non-verbal children with ...

Autism is often diagnosed at a young age. The average age listed by the CDC is 4.5 years old. Because of that, many people in the autism community feel it's often forgotten that kids with autism grow ...

STOCKTON, California -- A Stockton Police Department officer is being praised for the way he helped a child with autism found alone downtown. In a post on Facebook, the police department said ...

On the front of the page on the right, you’ll see an assortment of what looks like flat buttons, each with an image. On the back of the page, you’ll see a keyboard image and then a blank space at the ...

Imagine having a conversation where every gesture and glance feels like a test. You're juggling eye contact, facial expressions, and tone of voice, all while trying to keep up with the words. You ...