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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, 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: 2026(1993); see COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-1992 (see under SELF-HELP DEVICES 1980-1990), and COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED 1993-2025
History Note: 2026(1993); was COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR HANDICAPPED 1980-1992 (see under SELF-HELP DEVICES 1980-1990), and COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED 1993-2025
Date Introduced: 1991/01/01
Last Updated: 2026/01/01

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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, 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 2026