Communication aid

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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:

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 :

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.

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