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Descriptor English: Communication Aids for Disabled
Descriptor Spanish: Equipos de Comunicación para Personas con Discapacidad
Descriptor ayudas de comunicación para discapacitados
Entry term(s) ayudas técnicas de comunicación para discapacitados
dispositivos de telecomunicación para discapacidad auditiva
dispositivos de telecomunicación para sordos
equipos de comunicación para discapacitados
sintetizadores del habla
sistemas de comunicación alternativos y aumentativos
tableros de comunicación
Scope note: Equipo que proporciona un medio de comunicación a las personas con discapacidad mental o física. Los equipos incluyen pizarras, máquinas de escribir, tubos de rayos catódicos, ordenadores y sintetizadores de voz. La salida de dichos aparatos auxiliares incluyen palabras escritas, voz artificial, signos de lenguaje, código Morse e imágenes.
Descriptor Portuguese: Auxiliares de Comunicação para Pessoas com Deficiência
Descriptor French: Aides à la communication pour personnes handicapées
Entry term(s): Augmentative and Alternative Communications Systems
Communication Aids for Handicapped
Communication Board
Communication Boards
Speech Synthesizer
Speech Synthesizers
Synthesizer, Speech
Synthesizers, Speech
TDD
TTY Telephone
TTY Telephones
Telecommunication Device, Text
Telecommunication Devices, Text
Telecommunication, Text
Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf
Telecommunications, Text
Text Telecommunication
Text Telecommunication Device
Text Telecommunication Devices
Text Telecommunications
Text Telephone
Text Telephones
Tree number(s): E07.796.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003143
Scope note: Equipment that provides mentally or physically disabled persons with a means of communication. The aids include display boards, typewriters, cathode ray tubes, computers, and speech synthesizers. The output of such aids includes written words, artificial speech, language signs, Morse code, and pictures.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
MI microbiology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Communication (1966-1979)
Nonverbal Communication (1970-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 93; was COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-92 (see under SELF-HELP DEVICES 1980-90)
Online Note: use COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED to search COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-92
History Note: 93; was COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-92 (see under SELF-HELP DEVICES 1980-90)
Related: Speech Recognition Software MeSH
DeCS ID: 30943
Unique ID: D003143
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1979/04/11
Revision Date: 2004/07/07
Communication Aids for Disabled - Preferred
Concept UI M0004875
Scope note Equipment that provides mentally or physically disabled persons with a means of communication. The aids include display boards, typewriters, cathode ray tubes, computers, and speech synthesizers. The output of such aids includes written words, artificial speech, language signs, Morse code, and pictures.
Preferred term Communication Aids for Disabled
Entry term(s) Communication Aids for Handicapped
Text Telecommunication Devices - Narrower
Concept UI M0415351
Preferred term Text Telecommunication Devices
Entry term(s) TTY Telephone
TTY Telephones
Telecommunication Device, Text
Telecommunication Devices, Text
Text Telecommunication Device
Text Telephone
Text Telephones
Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf - Narrower
Concept UI M0415350
Preferred term Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf
Entry term(s) TDD
Communication Boards - Narrower
Concept UI M0004876
Preferred term Communication Boards
Entry term(s) Communication Board
Speech Synthesizers - Narrower
Concept UI M0004877
Preferred term Speech Synthesizers
Entry term(s) Speech Synthesizer
Synthesizer, Speech
Synthesizers, Speech
Text Telecommunication - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0450342
Preferred term Text Telecommunication
Entry term(s) Telecommunication, Text
Telecommunications, Text
Text Telecommunications
Augmentative and Alternative Communications Systems - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0467668
Preferred term Augmentative and Alternative Communications Systems



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