Kaili Webster has cerebral palsy. Mostly non-verbal, she finds her voice with the use of an eye-controlled communication ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A school in the Tucson Unified School District is providing a new tool for students with communicative disabilities to socialize on the playground. While many schools utilize ...

When a child doesn’t develop verbal communication skills, that doesn’t mean they will never communicate. Experts at UChicago Medicine share some facts. It’s a heartwarming experience to hear that ...

Under the harsh fluorescent lights of an emergency room, most people can verbally communicate their symptoms and severity of pain to a nurse. Those who cannot use their voice to communicate must rely ...

is your neighborhood reporter for North Beach, Downtown Corpus Christi and the Bay Area. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — For most people communicating is a simple task, but it can also be a challenge for ...

When my daughter Gracie was diagnosed with autism, we were advised to seek speech and other forms of therapy to help aid her development. When she was 7 years old, her speech pathologist recommended ...

Sometimes, simple things can make a world of difference. Take for example a non-verbal person who can’t necessarily control a touch screen in order to tell someone else what they need or want or think ...

When Toby and Lindsay Latham sent their son Calvin to school in Fairfax County, they hoped it would be a place where he could grow and thrive. Instead, they discovered he wasn’t learning at all. “It ...

Scottsville 8-year-old Nathaniel Johnson, who’s autistic, carries around a picture binder for when verbal communication is difficult. A breadth of pictures and words represent things concrete and ...

Speech generating devices (SGDs) may be funded using private health insurance, Medicare, and/or Medicaid. Medicaid is the provider of last resort, so funding must be sought through other funding ...

For people who can’t speak, there has been depressingly little innovation in technology that helps them communicate. In December 2022, a few months after learning that he’d won an Iowa Arts Fellowship ...