ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some potential types of technologies and how they can be repurposed to support individuals with cognitive-communication impairments, rather than trying to address an exhaustive and ever-changing list of individualized supports and specific programmes. It discusses opportunities and applications for everyday technologies exist to support individuals with cognitive-communication impairments. Facebook has been identified as a means of social support among individuals with mild impairments to cognition following traumatic brain injury. Disruptions to cosmesis or perceptions of how others may see assistive technologies are an important element of the self-stigma that can arise from use of individualized assistive technologies. Since the use of everyday technologies as an assistive technology support requires adoption of a device or application, people believe it provides a strong parallel. Provision of feedback that is accessible and understandable to persons with cognitive-communication impairments is crucial to supporting use of everyday experience-sampling, health-monitoring devices and applications.
