Svensk definition
Utrustning som underlättar för personer med fysiska eller psykiska handikapp, och som inte kan tala, att kommunicera. Hjälpmedlen omfattar bildskärmar, skrivmaskiner, katodrör, datorer och talsyntesapparater. Hjälpmedlen producerar skrift, konstgjort tal, språktecken, Morsetecken och bilder.
Engelsk definition
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.
Svenska synonymer
Kommunikationshjälpmedel för funktionshindrade personer — Texttelefon — Talsyntes — Text-till-tal hjälpmedel
Engelska synonymer
Communication Aids for Handicapped — Text Telecommunication Devices — Telecommunication Device, Text — Telecommunication Devices, Text — Text Telecommunication Device — TTY Telephone — TTY Telephones — Text Telephone — Text Telephones — Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf — TDD — Communication Boards — Communication Board — Speech Synthesizers — Speech Synthesizer — Synthesizer, Speech — Synthesizers, Speech — Text Telecommunication — Telecommunication, Text — Telecommunications, Text — Text Telecommunications — Augmentative and Alternative Communications Systems