Using computers as visual aids to enhance communication in therapy.
Using computers as surrogate therapists and to provide cognitive stimulation through, for example, computer exercises or activities is widely reported in the computer-assisted therapy literature. We, however, present a computer-assisted therapy technique, which primarily aims to enhance communicatio...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 847 - 856 |
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Elsevier Science
September 2006
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