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The conference paper "Sibylle AAC system: exploiting syntax and semantics for word prediction," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It presents Sibylle, an AAC system for persons with severe speech and motion impairments.

The conference paper "Dual-display SGD intelligibility with alphabet supplementation and word prediction" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the use of speech-generating devices for alphabet supplementation and word prediction.

The conference paper "Early language and literacy connectors in young multiple disabled children," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the effect of cognitive/linguistic and neural perspectives on early language and literacy development in children with cerebral palsy.

The conference paper "Producing and interpreting symbol sequences: the impact of language development," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It explores the production and comprehension of messages composed of graphic symbols.

The conference paper "Utility of ICF for Describing Changes in Interaction and Participation" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the evaluation of interventions as it shows how communication affects the quality of life of an individual.

The conference paper "Combining Lexical Resources for an Interactive Language Tool" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the JAPE program for children with speech and language disabilities.

The conference paper "Using New Technologies to Study Language Use in Augmentative Communication" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses advances in evidence-based assessment of communication performance for people with disabilities.

The conference paper "Can we augment conversation for persons with dementia?" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the communicative functions in people with dementia.

The conference paper "Children's VOCA Mediated Interaction: Delays As a Problem and Resource" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany, from July 29-August 5, 2006. It addresses issues of time and timing through an examination of the realization of delays in voice output communication aid (VOCA) mediated turn construction.

Although health care spending represents one of the largest expenditure categories in all Western societies, most research on the welfare state has neglected issues related to health and health care. In this paper, we use the ISSP to evaluate the public attitudes towards health care in the United States, Australia, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy at three points in time. We find that public attitude do not cluster according to the most widely used schemes to classify welfare states which is not surprising given that these nations have often been clustered together without paying attention to health care. The results also indicate that the cleavages that are most influential in dividing individual health outcomes are an important predictor of people's attitudes towards government involvement in health care. In general, groups who have been shown to experience worse health in modern society are more supportive of government involvement in health care whereas groups experiencing better health are generally less supportive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conference paper "Early literacy precursors in children with Cerebral Palsy" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It studies the importance of phonological and phonemic awareness in learning .

The conference paper "Trade-offs Between Redundancy and Speed of Message Delivery in AAC," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the effects of trade-off choices between speed of message delivery and either relevance or informativeness in a particular public situation.

The conference paper "The Speaking Mobile Phone: provoking new approaches to AAC design," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the specific features of an over-sized mobile phone that allows its user to hold a spoken conversation using their hands, not their mouth.

The conference paper "Neural perspectives on early literacy in children with Cerebral Palsy" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It investigates if two precursors of learning to read are developed in these children by using the EEG technique.

The conference paper "Presymbolic Children in Sweden Interaction, Family Accommodation and Social Network" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It investigates the development of interaction between children and caregivers in relation to the family's accommodations of their routines in everyday life.

The conference paper "The effectiveness of AAC in autism: A quantitative research synthesis," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It follows up on a presentation given at the previous ISAAC conference on preliminary results of a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of AAC for children with autism.

The conference paper "Topic Modeling in Fringe Word Prediction for AAC," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It provides more details regarding the implementation of topic modeling as well as further evaluations.

The conference paper "Computer-based Articulation Test for Thai Cerebral Palsy Children with Dysarthia," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29, 2006 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the development of an automatic speech recording program for cerebral palsied children to have a natural speech conversation.

The conference paper "Asking well-built questions for evidence-based practice" is presented. The paper was presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) held in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It describes a proposed evidence-based template for AAC purposes called PESICO template.

The conference paper "Vocabulary for VOCAs based on a Spoken Language Corpus," is presented. The paper was presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication held in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the use of voice output communication aids (VOCAs) to supplement other ways of expression for people with severe speech and language difficulties.

The conference paper titled "Implementing Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): Strategies for Practitioners and Researchers," is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication scheduled in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the need for the involvement of all stakeholders in augmentative and alternative communication in embedding EBP in the clinical/service delivery context.

The conference paper titled "Acquired communication disorder case study: AAC and Therapeutic SLP issues" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication scheduled in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses clinical speech language pathology practice and the possible applications of AAC in acquired communication disorder.

The conference paper titled "Persons with speech disabilities participating to human-centered internet pages design" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication scheduled in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses how speech- and intellectually disabled individuals took part on the project, how they participated in the design process and the related implications.

The conference paper titled "The Use of Theater in AAC Research" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication scheduled in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the specifications and applications of live theater and video performances for exploring communication and technical design issues.

The conference paper titled "Generating Language From BlissSymbols Using Semantic Authoring" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication scheduled in Dusseldorf, Germany on July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses techniques and practices that will enable a high rate of communication for users of augmentative and alternative communication devices.

The conference paper "Communication Assessment in Preschool Children With Physical and Multiple Disabilities" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the alternatives to standardised testing to set up situations which could give a child his best communication performance.

The conference paper "Factors Contributing to Attitudes towards Individuals Who Use AAC" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the impact of people's attitudes towards individuals who use AAC on the life of the speech impaired.

The conference paper "A sociological view on AAC-interventions-On the essentials for well-being and identity of people with cognitive impairment and communication disabilities" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses social model of disability.

The conference paper "Literacy ability in children with SSPI; A cross-linguistic comparison between Swedish and English speaking children" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses a study which examines strategies used by children with severe speech and physical impairments to acquire reading and spelling skills.

The conference paper "A Transition Pilot Project for Parents of AAC Users" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication on July 29 to August 5, 2006 in Dusseldorf, Germany. It focuses on the implementation and evaluation of the parent component of the Communication and Writing Aids Service (CWAS).

The conference paper "Speech Consistency Score: Dysarthric Speech Assessment for Modern Speech Technologies" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication on July 29 to August 5, 2006 in Dusseldorf, Germany. It proposes an indicator called speech consistency score (SCS), which can be used to predict a possibly outcome performance of alternative speech technologies.

The conference paper "Mobile Accessible Japanese Sign Language Dictionaries over the Internet" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication on July 29 to August 5, 2006 in Dusseldorf, Germany. It discusses an electronic dictionary system for Japanese Sign Language (JSL) that a user can access by a mobile videophone through the Internet.

The conference paper "A Descriptive Study of AAC Interventions for Toddlers and Preschoolers " is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the development of language and expressive communication in young children with communication disorders.

The conference paper "A Symbol-to-text Writing Module" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the methods for using the vocabulary and grammatical structures.

The conference paper "Hierarchy of Conversational Maxim Violations in AAC Using Utterance-Based Technology" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the identification of choices which yield the most positive evaluations to the user.

The conference paper "The Frametalker Project: Building an Utterance-Based Communication Device" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses a prototype application to generate and modify whole utterances for people with disabilities.

The conference paper "Basic Concept Instruction for Children With Autism Using Multimedia Applications" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the ability to identify spatial concepts to enhance communicative competence.

The conference paper "The Influence of Color on Graphic Symbol Acquisition" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the effects of computer-based intervention on the acquisition of graphic symbols by people with disabilities.

The conference paper "Environmental Control-a provocative approach to communication" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the use of environmental control to promote communication aid in Great Britain.

The conference paper "AAC-RERC Products and Tools: 1998-Present" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany, from July 29-August 5, 2006. It discusses a selection of products and tools that have been developed through the work of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Communication Enhancement (AAC-RERC) and its partner organizations and manufacturers.

The conference paper "Comparative Approach Toward Representability in AAC Systems/Sets" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany, from July 29-August 5, 2006. It suggests a theoretical analysis of representability in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) symbols, organized according to representational dimensions and oppositional features.

The conference paper "Communicative interactions between adults with profound intellectual disability and disability support workers" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the relationship between people with profound intellectual disability and disability support worker.

The conference paper "The Realibility of a Universally Accessible Assessment of Reading" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses the factors needed for successful reading with comprehension.

The conference paper "AAC Training of South African Speech Pathologists: Changing Perceptions" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany, from July 29-August 5, 2006. It highlights the different aspects of augmentative and alternative communication workshop of speech pathologists in South Africa and the challenges and outcomes of the project.

The conference paper "Keeping Pace With (Assistive) Technology: Analysing Training for Professionals" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany, from July 29-August 5, 2006. It focuses on the skills development associated with assistive technology applications: aids for communication, computer access and use and environmental control.

The conference paper "Investigation of Experimental Communication Access Pathways" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication held in Dusseldorf, Germany, from July 29-August 5, 2006. It aims to establish the manifestation of willful indication of communicative intent in verbal individuals. It highlights the results from residual motor activation and galvanic skin response measurements.

The conference paper "Troubles with proforms in AAC talk: a Conversation Analysis study" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses troubles with augmentative and alternative communication turns in conversation where a proform reference leads to a request for clarification by the recipient.

The conference paper "Language and cognitive development in augmentative and alternative communication" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses a case study of language and cognitive development in a group of children.

The conference paper "Researching symbol use: ethical and methodological issues" is presented. The paper will be presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Dusseldorf, Germany from July 29 to August 5, 2006. It discusses ethical and methodological issues when working with people who have learning disabilities. It also discusses graphic and other aided symbols.