Biometrics based assistive communication tool for children with special needs

Abstract

Communication is very important in our daily lives. Unfortunately, there is a minority group of people who suffers from both speech and physical disability. For example, people with cerebral palsies (CP) suffer from speech and physical, and also mental disability in some cases. Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) or Assistive Communication tools have been developed to help them to communicate. However, due to the limitations of these tools, it is less efficient and effective in helping them. This research proposed an enhanced assistive communication tools as enhancement to the existing AAC tools. Results have shown that our proposed tool has the potential to assist people with Cerebral Palsy to communicate through facial expressions.