Category Archives: AAC
Voice banking for people with degenerative diseases
Radio 4's Word of Mouth this week interviewed Laurence Brewer. Laurence has Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and is in the process of banking his voice to create his unique synthesised version for future use. Laurence says that, although the idea of voice … Continue reading
Posted in AAC, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Parkinson's disease, Phonetics / phonology, Resources, Speech and Language Therapy, Voice
Tagged Chris Ledgard, Laurence Brewer, MND, ModelTalker, motor neurone disease, Radio 4, Shelley Trower, speech and language therapists, speech patterns, speech synthesis software, synthesised voice, Tim Bunnell, Tony Crimlisk, voice banking, Word of Mouth
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Devices for Dignity
Research speech and language therapist Gill Townend has been in touch to say that the deadline for therapists, clients and carers responding to the Devices for Dignity communication aids survey has been extended until 23rd October. As reported in the Spring 09 issue of … Continue reading
Posted in AAC, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged AAC, D4D, speech language therapy, symbols
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