PEARLS OR PERILS
■ Multidisciplinary approaches to evaluating a child's needs are most effective. You may have all the tools you need, but the family story is what's important.
■ The goal of all assistive communication technology is to help people with disabilities overcome the limitations of those disabilities and to become more independent and more efficient, to become faster and to experience longer stamina, and to be able to become active members of their social communities.
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