(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 ...

The first app to use artificial intelligence to power an alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) tool for profoundly autistic and other minimal- and non-speaking users was recently unveiled ...

For the first fourteen years of his life, Viraj Dhanda, who has autism and apraxia, was non-verbal, non-communicative, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dad of a non-speaking, autistic boy has had the alphabet tattooed on his arm so his son can always communicate with him. Dan Harris, 45, had the £180 tattoo completed on his left forearm two weeks ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The memory of one of Staten Island’s most inspirational residents will live on through the advocacy work of his family and loved ones. The GRACE Foundation, a local nonprofit ...

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 ...