A word board or communications board is a simple means to help people who have lost the ability to speak. A word board may typically be provided to those recovering after a
stroke
A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functionin ...
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Stroke Centre - recovering after a atroke. Retrieved 18 November 2011
To communicate, the user points at the relevant words, letters or symbols on the board. Typically the following are included:
Yes , No , (☺) ,
, Want, That
ABCD EFG
HIJK LMNOP
QRS ''X'' TUV
& WX ? YZ
Why, What, When, Where
There are now sophisticated electronic speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
devices available for this purpose.
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