Hoping that the "imperfect" English used by a large part of the world for functional communication will one day come to resemble "real" English is quite futile.
Between pathologically impaired consciousness and normal consciousness exists a scarcely researched transition zone, referred to as emergence from minimally conscious state, in which patients regain the capacity for functional communication, object use, or both.
Lastly, there is evidence for bi-directional functional communication between mast cells and nerves [ 10- 12].
Specific recommendations can be made for remediation of language and perception after left and right hemisphere stroke, respectively, and for the remediation of attention, memory, functional communication, and executive functioning after TBI.
This meta-analysis analyzes the extant empirical literature for PECS relative to targeted (functional communication) and non-targeted concomitant outcomes (behavior, social skills, and speech) for learners with autism, learners with autism and intellectual disabilities and those with autism and multiple disabilities.
This localizer scan will map an individual's attention network, and determine whether all or parts of the canonical attention network, observed at the group-level, are expected to be activated during selective attention in a functional communication scan for that individual participant.
Extensive historical evidence from the drug abuse literature has provided support for the concept that there is functional communication between central nervous system (CNS) circuitries which subserve reward/motivation, and the regulation of energy homeostasis.
For many patients the progress toward functional communication is steady but slow, while other patients need to be assisted to learn compensatory strategies for an effective social communication.
Functional communication is such a milestone for relatives that it will not be missed or forgotten and could be reported reliably (see also 28).
We then propose the virtual communication platform that is composed of six functional communication layers, which provides a common medium for communication, i.e., same communication language.
Healthy aging is characterized by the ability to compensate for difficulties in linguistic processing, which allows the elderly to maintain functional communication.
