| communication aids for disabled | Equipment that provides mentally or physically disabled persons, who cannot speak effectively, with a means of communication. The aids include display boards, typewriters, cathode ray tubes, computers, and speech synthesisers. The output of such aids includes written words, artificial speech, language signs, morse code, and pictures. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| communication barriers | Those factors, such as language or sociocultural relationships, which interfere in the meaningful interpretation and transmission of ideas between individuals or groups. (12 Dec 1998) |
| communication disorders | Disorders characterised by the individual's inability to comprehend or share ideas or feelings because of impairment of language, speech, or hearing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| communication methods, total | Utilization of all available receptive and expressive modes for the purpose of achieving communication with the hearing impaired, such as gestures, postures, facial expression, types of voice, formal speech and non-speech systems, and simultaneous communication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| computer communication networks | A system containing any combination of computers, computer terminals, printers, audio or visual display devices, or telephones interconnected by telecommunications equipment or cables: used to transmit or receive information. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospital communication systems | The transmission of messages to staff and patients within a hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nonverbal communication | Transmission of emotions, ideas, and attitudes between individuals in ways other than the spoken language. (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical service communication systems | The use of communication systems, such as telecommunication, to transmit emergency information to appropriate providers of health services. (12 Dec 1998) |