Communication aid
Various devices and methods are referred to as communication aids , which primarily facilitate or enable people with a disability to communicate directly with other people. These communication aids can act both actively (the disabled person sends a message) and passively (the disabled person receives a message via the communication aid).
Device communication aids
Device communication aids are e.g. B. Handwriting communicators with keyboard and text display or print output for the speech-impaired, adapted or alternative computer keyboard operations and adaptations for people with motor disabilities such as spastic people , hearing aids and telephones with amplified headphones for the hard of hearing , cochlear and brain stem implants , for deaf people, text telephones , videophones , park light equipment, light and vibration alarm for the deaf , Braille and Braille machines for blind and deaf-blind etc.
In the European standard EN ISO 9999 , communication aids are classified according to the following structure:
- 22 Tools for communication and information
- 22 03 visual aids (e.g. magnifying glasses , screen readers )
- 22 06 hearing aids (e.g. hearing aids , hearing glasses )
- 22 09 Speech aids (e.g. voice generator , voice amplifier )
- 22 12 Writing and drawing aids
- 22 15 Calculation aids (e.g. calculating devices, calculation software)
- 22 18 Tools for processing visual information as well as audio and video information
- 22 21 aids for the short distance communication (eg. As letters rates, symbol sets, communicators , software for short distance communication)
- 22 24 Aids for telephony (and telematics )
- 22 27 Aids for alarming, displaying and signaling
- 22 30 Reading aids (e.g. page turner , tactile reading devices, reading materials with voice output )
- 22 33 Computers and Terminals
- 22 36 Input devices for computers (e.g. keyboards, alternative input devices, input software)
- 22 39 Output devices for computers (e.g. braille displays, printers , speech output )
Depending on the personal situation, the financing of such devices falls under the responsibility of various social cost carriers , such as statutory health insurance , employment agency , accident insurance, etc.
In this context, the list of resources of the statutory health insurance lists the products that are subject to the assumption of costs, although some terminology is different :
- Group 07 Aids for the blind
- Group 13 hearing aids
- Group 16 communication aids
- Group 27 Speech Aids
Personal communication aids
In the law on equality for people with disabilities and in the ordinance on communication aids , it was anchored that natural persons who, as participants in administrative proceedings because of a hearing or speech impairment, are entitled to personal communication aids to exercise their rights . These include: interpreters for German sign language , for signs accompanying spoken language , written interpreters , simultaneous text interpreters and oral interpreters , who can be freely selected by the client depending on his needs. The remuneration of communication assistants in the context of an administrative procedure is borne by the authority.
Section 3 of the Communication Aid Ordinance lists the following:
1. Communication helpers are in particular
- a) speech-to-text interpreters;
- b) Simultaneous speech interpreters;
- c) Oral interpreters or
- d) Communication assistants.
2. Communication methods are particular
- a) Lormen and tactilely perceptible gestures or
- b) assisted communication for people with autistic disorder.
3. Means of communication are particular
- a) acoustic-technical aids or
- b) graphic symbol systems.
Web links
- Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Communication Aid Ordinance
- Personal communication aids for the hearing impaired (PDF file; 25 kB)
- Interpreting services: communication aids for hard-of-hearing employees - guidelines for the hörkomm.de project - barrier-free hearing and communication in the world of work