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  • Title: Enabling two women with blindness and additional disabilities to make phone calls independently via a computer-aided telephone system.
    Author: Lancioni GE, O'Reilly MF, Singh NN, Oliva D.
    Journal: Dev Neurorehabil; 2011; 14(5):283-9. PubMed ID: 21870952.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To assess whether two women with blindness and additional disabilities could make independent phone calls through a computer-aided telephone system. METHOD: For each participant, the study involved an ABAB design, in which the A represented baseline phases and the B represented intervention phases with the special telephone system (involving among others a net-book computer with specific software, a global system for mobile communication modem and a microswitch). RESULTS: Both participants learned to use the system and made phone calls independently to a variety of partners such as family members, friends and staff personnel. CONCLUSION: The system assessed in this study might represent a useful means for enabling persons with blindness and additional disabilities to manage phone calls on their own.
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