ProsthesisWare: A new class of software supporting the activities of daily living.

Presents a case study of a 37-yr-old female patient with an expressive aphasia secondary to a traumatic brain injury. The development of successive approximations of a speech prosthesis for the S illustrated how new hardware and software capabilities permit the rapid iterative design and redesign of cognitive prosthesis tools. However, the rehabilitation infrastructure supporting microcomputer implementation needs to be developed. The emergence of ProsthesisWare, a class of rehabilitation software, constitutes an application of microcomputers that offers utilitarian prosthetic aids for activities of daily living for some people with cognitive impairments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)