Communicate with technology

Communicating, using a portable computer and switches

About this website

The Swedish website www.kommed.nu was originally the home for a project called "Communication through technology - from an every day perspective". The project was running from 1999 to 2002, supported by the Swedish Handicap Institute and Vinnova. Its aim was to develop methods for enhancing communication of non-speaking students with severe physical disabilities, using models for collaborative problem solving and technology. We who worked on this project was Bitte Rydeman, speech and language pathologist at DaKo in Halmstad, and Gerd Zachrisson, occupational therapist at DART in Gothenburg. Tutor for the project was professor Eva Björck-Åkesson at Mälardalen University.

This project was reported at the international ISAAC conference in Odense 2002, and the slides from the presentation are available at this site. The presentation was called "Who's in charge - consumer focus on AAC intervention".

The website www.kommed.nu has since developed to become a resource in the Swedish language for information about communication aids: symbol software, dynamic displays, VOCA:s and computer software for speech- and language training. It also has reports (in Swedish) from Swedish and international conferences, such as CSUN 2000, ISAAC 2000 and ID-dagarna 2000 and 2001.

This page was created 2003-07-15 by Bitte Rydeman.
If you want to get in touch with me, you can mail me at "bitte at bittech dot se"