What is it about?
This article illustrates how powered mobility intervention can mediate the participants' development of social interaction and communication, as well as a sense of self, object-interaction and agency. Typically powered mobility practice is focused on learning how to operate the machine, therefore it took time to become conscious of and recognize the aspect of the parallell development of communication.
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Why is it important?
The findings show that it is important for professionals to be aware of and take advantage of the aspect of mediated communication in powered mobility intervention. The professional can simultanously assist the learner's understanding of how to control the experience of movement and the learner's development of strategies for how to use the movement to interact and communicate.
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Dialogue and mutual interaction during powered mobility intervention is nurturing the understanding of how the machine and the operating device can be used to express emotion, communicate desire and will also in people who act and communicate at an early developmental level.
Dr Lisbeth Nilsson
Lund University
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This page is a summary of: Communication Mediated by a Powered Wheelchair: People with Profound Cognitive Disabilities, Disability Studies Quarterly, October 2011, The Ohio State University Libraries,
DOI: 10.18061/dsq.v31i4.1708.
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