Communication and Handicap (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Communication and Handicap: Aspects of Psychological Compensation and Technical Aids 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 8
Preface 6
Introduction 10
Chapter 1. Communication, compensation and handicap 10
PART 1: HEARING ASPECTS OF HANDICAPS 28
Chapter 2. Compensatory strategies in speechreading 28
Chapter 3. Compensatory use of acoustic speech cues and language structure by hearing-impaired listeners 48
PART 2: VISUAL ASPECTS OF HANDICAPS 70
Chapter 4. IT make sense: Form, content and use of information 70
Chapter 5. Compensation as skill 94
Chapter 6. Travelling without vision: On the possibilities of cognitive and perceptual compensation 112
Chapter 7. Computerized presentation of text for the visually handicapped 124
Chapter 8. Blind people reading a daily radio distributed newspaper: Braille and speech synthesis 136
PART 3: READING DEFICITS 150
Chapter 9. Working memory, reading and dyslexia 150
Chapter 10. The reading/short-term memory relationship: Implications of an exception 162
Chapter 11. Compensation in reading disabilities 180
PART 4: NEUROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HANDICAPS 200
Chapter 12. Aphasia therapy research: Methodological requirements and illustrative results 200
Chapter 13. Possibilities of spontaneous compensation for aphasic symptoms in conversation 224
Chapter 14. Blissymbolics, cognition and the handicapped 242
Chapter 15. Lexical prediction for a text-to-speech system 262
Chapter 16. Communication and handicap: Conclusion 274
Subject and author indices 282