Persons with CCN
Persons with complex communication needs (CCN) are those persons who cannot realize their communication needs through existing, typical ways of communications due to various reasons which limit their ability for independent functioning.
Persons with CCN belong to project’s target group focused on persons with Down syndrome, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe intellectual disabilities, and complex physical disabilities. All these groups of persons can benefit from alternative and augmentative communication (AAC). Their needs are related to:
- social inclusion and participation (e-Inclusion), especially focused on promoting their greater independence and ways of expressing their feelings; and
- participation in designing policies which affect their lives.
Constraints of persons with CCN stem from their disabilities, with individual persons having varying capacities related to:
- nonverbal cognitive abilities;
- receptive or expressive language; and
- speech.
