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This article emphasises the importance of natural gestures and describes the framework and the development process of the “Signs Workshop” CD-ROM, which is a multimedia application for the promotion of early communication skills of children with developmental disabilities. Signs Workshop CD-ROM was created in the scope of Down’s Comm Project, which was financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and is the result of a partnership between UNICA (Communication and Arts Research Unit of the University of Aveiro) and the Portuguese Down Syndrome Association (APPT21/Differences).
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Almeida, A.M.P. et al. (2009). Signs Workshop: The Importance of Natural Gestures in the Promotion of Early Communication Skills of Children with Developmental Disabilities. In: Sales Dias, M., Gibet, S., Wanderley, M.M., Bastos, R. (eds) Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation. GW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92865-2_27
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