Re: Communication methods for people with extremely limited articulation

Den 11. jan. 2009 kl. 21.07 skreiv Sai Emrys:

> There are times when I have been unable to speak or control my body in
> anything more than very crude ways. A couple times, during atonic
> seizures, I essentially had the exact same condition as the person in
> the film - I could blink, and later grunt, but no more.
>
> More frequently, I find myself merely unable to speak; that's not too
> bad though, since I'm moderately fluent in American Sign Language, and
> I've always ensured my partners learned some.
>
> It seems to me that the methods described in the flyer (and portrayed
> in the film) are both extremely cumbersome and don't adequately take
> advantage of all the articulators that a person with LIS (or seizure)
> may have. (E.g.: one can blink in patterns, have length be
> significant, grunt softly, grunt loudly, etc. A good system would need
> to abstract this somehow and accommodate some range of articulation
> channels.)
>
> Thus, this seems to be a good candidate for medically beneficial
> conlanging.
>
> Have any of you experienced this? Do you know of resources that give
> the current state of the art for communication in similar situations?
>
> Would you be interested in collaborating on creating a better system?
I certainly would, though I have no such experiences. And my
linguistic knowhow is limited. But I have been known to suffer from
bursts of clear and analytic thinking occasionally.

This would be not a just-for-fun project like so many conlangs. Thus
we (you) would aim to find widespread international acceptance for
the product. Other aims should be ease of learning, selecting the
most vital concepts for the more easily expressible and
understandable atoms of communication. You with your experience may
be in a good place to detect the more vital concepts to communicate,
perhaps.

LEF

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