(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 ...

Under the harsh fluorescent lights of an emergency room, most people can verbally communicate their symptoms and severity of pain to a nurse. Those who cannot use their voice to communicate must rely ...

Speech is heard but if one cannot respond with speech themselves, are there other ways? These alternative means of communication are called Augmentative Alternative Communication or AAC tools. sign ...

Alyssa is a doctoral student in neuroscience at the University of Rhode Island. Follow them @yes_thattoo or check out their personal blog. This post is part of a (somewhat loose) series about being ...

NEW ORLEANS & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Team Gleason, a leading foundation for ALS patient support, is collaborating with Boston Children’s Hospital’s ALS Augmentative Communication Program, which ...

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 impact a ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - It’s been more than a year-long wait for some families to receive crucial devices to help their children with disabilities, who are non-verbal, be able to communicate. Imagine for a ...

A high school freshman with cerebral palsy uses an eye-controlled device to communicate. The device, known as an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tool, allows her to speak, text, and ...