Using a Single-Switch Voice Output Communication Aid to Increase Social Access for Children with Severe Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Evans Cosbey ◽  
Susan Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Inclusive Classrooms ◽  
Voice Output Communication Aid ◽  
Communication Aid ◽  
Voice Output

Effects of Speakers' Augmented Characteristics and Listeners' Sex on Intelligibility and Acceptability of Synthesized Speech

2002 ◽  
Vol 94 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1081-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee W. Ellis ◽  
Bernard Spiegel ◽  
Barbaranne Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
Voice Output Communication Aid ◽  
Communication Aid ◽  
Synthesized Speech ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Voice Output

16 women and 16 men as listeners provided magnitude estimation scaling responses for the intelligibility and acceptability of synthesized speech transmitted by two different individuals using a voice output communication aid (VOCA). Listeners rated the samples when presented by a physically disabled nonspeaking male and when presented by a nondisabled speaking male. Analysis indicated no significant difference in listeners' judgments of the intelligibility or acceptability of the samples transmitted by the two VOCA users regardless of sex of the listener or speaking ability of the presenter.

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