| dc.description.abstract | Communication is an important way for people in exchanging
information and sharing opinions between each other. However, personal
emotion, social interaction, education, and job are affected by the limited
cognitive, sensory and movement ability of people with communication
disorder. Therefore, there is a need for them to develop an augmentative
and alternative communication (AAC) to achieve the purpose of
communication. The main purpose of this study is to develop an AAC to
provide assistance for patients with various communication disorders. By
using the developed device, these patients could improve their ability of
self-control and judgment, their relationship with family and people, and
increase their dignity and employment opportunity. Based on the platform
of Android system, this device could provide functions for editing (addition
and arrangement) pictures with different configurations, text-to-speech
synthesized (TTS) speech or nature language recording to motivate the
communication disorders to communicate with people.
Furthermore, studies of comparison between the use of traditional
communication book and our smart-mobile device-based AAC were
conducted with Speech Therapy team on 6 subjects with communication
disorders at Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tao
Yuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare-Sinwu Branch. The
results showed that our developed AAC had a better performance with
statistical significance on accuracy and spontaneous speech than the
communication book. | en_US |