Design and Development of Symbol Based Services for Persons with Complex Communication Needs

Abstract

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) supports communication
process of people who have communication disabilities and is based on the use
of symbols. Multidisciplinary research is undertaken aiming to explore and create
interoperable and scalable symbol based communication services for different user
devices. The paper introduces model of the platform architecture for developing
and deploying symbol based communication services and describes a model of
adaptive symbol based AAC application.