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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Training Using Eye Blink Switch for Locked-in Syndrome Patient.

[locked-in syndrome]

Locked-in Syndrome is a severe pontine stroke causing quadriplegia, lower cranial nerve paralysis, and mutism with preservation of only vertical gaze and upper eyelid movement in a conscious patient. We present a case of a Locked-in Syndrome patient who received communication training with augmentative and alternative communication equipment by using eye blinks. After 3 weeks of training, the patient was able to make an attempt to interact with other people, and associate a new word by Korean alphabet selection. Augmentative and alternative communication equipment which uses eye blinks might be considered to be beneficial in improving the communication skills of locked-in syndrome patients.

Diseases presenting "stroke" symptom

  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • alexander disease
  • alpha-thalassemia
  • cadasil
  • cohen syndrome
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • fabry disease
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis
  • homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria
  • hydrocephalus with stenosis of the aqueduct of sylvius
  • kallmann syndrome
  • locked-in syndrome
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • sneddon syndrome
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • werner syndrome
  • zellweger syndrome

This symptom has already been validated