Technology-based Intervention Programs to Promote Stimulation Control and Communication in Post-coma Persons with Different Levels of Disability

Post-coma persons in a minimally conscious state and with extensive motor impairment or emerging/emerged from such a state, but affected by lack of speech and motor impairment, tend to be passive and isolated. A way to help them develop functional responding to control environmental events and comm...

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Main Authors: Giulio E. Lancioni, Andrea eBosco, Marta eOlivetti Belardinelli, Nirbhay N Singh, Mark F O'Reilly, Jeff eSigafoos, Doretta eOliva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00048/full