Sc@ut: developing adapted communicators for special education

This paper outlines our experience in the development of augmentative and alternative communication systems (AACS) and their application in Special Education schools. We have created, within the Sc@ut Project (http://scaut.ugr.es), a platform to design AACS for people with special communication need...

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Published inProcedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 1; no. 1; pp. 1348 - 1352
Main Authors Rodríguez-Fórtiz, M.J., González, J.L., Fernández, A., Entrena, M., Hornos, M.J., Pérez, A., Carrillo, A., Barragán, L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2009
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Augmentative and alternative communication systems
Disability
Mobile devices
Sign language
User impairments adaptation
Disability
Sign language
Mobile devices
User impairments adaptation
Augmentative and alternative communication systems
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Summary:This paper outlines our experience in the development of augmentative and alternative communication systems (AACS) and their application in Special Education schools. We have created, within the Sc@ut Project (http://scaut.ugr.es), a platform to design AACS for people with special communication needs, e.g. people with autism, dysphasia and brain paralysis, inter alia. Sc@ut communicators, which run on several devices (many of which are portable), include three types of language: pictograms, sounds (spoken language) and sign language (animations showing gestures), and are specially intended for communicative learning. They increase students’ motivation and are an attractive means of training in abilities, concepts and gestures, facilitating the communication of people with intellectual disability and severe problems in their oral expression.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.238