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MeSH Heading: Communication Devices for People with Disabilities
Tree Number(s): E07.796.250
Unique ID: D003143
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003143
Scope Note: Equipment that provides mentally or physically disabled persons with a means of communication. The aids include display boards, typewriters, cathode ray tubes, computers, and speech synthesizers. The output of such aids includes written words, artificial speech, language signs, Morse code, and pictures.
Entry Term(s): Augmentative and Alternative Communications Systems; Communication Aids for Disabled; Communication Aids for Handicapped; Communication Aids for Persons with Disabilities; Communication Boards; Speech Synthesizers; TDD; TTY Telephone; Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf; Text Telecommunication; Text Telecommunication Devices; Text Telephone
Previous Indexing: Communication (1966-1979); Nonverbal Communication (1970-1979)
See Also: Speech Recognition Software
Public MeSH Note: 93; was COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-92 (see under SELF-HELP DEVICES 1980-90)
Online Note: use COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED to search COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-92
History Note: 93; was COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-92 (see under SELF-HELP DEVICES 1980-90)
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 2024/10/17
Revision Date: 2024/10/17

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Concept UI: M0004875
Scope Note: Equipment that provides mentally or physically disabled persons with a means of communication. The aids include display boards, typewriters, cathode ray tubes, computers, and speech synthesizers. The output of such aids includes written words, artificial speech, language signs, Morse code, and pictures.
Terms: Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Preferred Term
Term UI T001144809
Date08/06/2024
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2025); Communication Aids for Disabled
Term UI T009166
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1980); Communication Aids for Handicapped
Term UI T009165
Date12/31/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1993); Communication Aids for Persons with Disabilities
Term UI T001145834
Date10/17/2024
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2025)

Communication Devices for People with Disabilities MeSH Descriptor Data 2025