Hi Erin-

Erin, as an aside, (and these are just my personal feelings), I always feel
a little nervous when people use the term "non-compliant". I think there are
a lot of reasons why AT/AAC gets abandoned, and non-compliance is only one
part of it.

I remember once visiting a very remote client, with a very dysfunctional
family.  It had been mentioned at clinic that she was "non-compliant" using
her power chair. I did a home visit, and it turns out the wheelchair
wouldn't fit through any of the doors inside her home. It wasn't that she
was non-compliant- it just wasn't feasible for her to use the wheelchair
inside.
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I personally don't believe that there is a link between having your voice
banked and successfully using a SGD. (The only link that I can  think of is
that people who follow through with the voice banking tend to be much more
pro-active and more computer savvy, and people who are more pro-active and
computer savvy might tend to do better with an SGD.)

Margaret Cotts

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Thanks for everyone's responses- keep them coming if you have different
experiences. I am currently in phase one of a longitudinal study on voice
banking and I'm focusing now on compliance issues with AAC devices and I'm
trying to see if there is a link between non compliance and the voice that
patients choose to use. Ideally I'd like to see if those patients who have
the ability (prior to losing their voice) to voice bank are more compliant
with their devices when it's their own voice.

Right now I'm recording my own synthesized voice with Model Talker but it is
incredibly time consuming and fatiguing for ME, I can only imagine how
fatiguing it would be for those with ALS or MND. I'm excited to see the end
result.

It seems to me from most of these responses that those who are doing a form
of voice banking are essentially doing "phrase banking".

Jen, please let me know how it goes putting the model talk voices on the
Vmax- That is my next step as well.

Thanks everyone!

Erin Singleton M.A., CCC-SLP
Neuroscience Outpatient Rehabilitation Center
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Fresno, California 93701
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