Promoting the choice behavior in a person with multiple severe Intellectual and Motor Disabilities with the help of an optical pointer

People with multiple and severe disabilities find it difficult to develop verbal and non-verbal language, thus remaining passive or inadequate in communication (Ricci, Miglino, Alberti, Perilli, & Lancioni, 2017). Increased communication skills would promote active participation. An example of communicative application is represented by the Walden Personal Communicator (WPC): a hybrid system which uses images and/or physical objects with radio frequency identification technology (RFID), with the aim of promoting the development and increase of communicative and social skills (Ricci, Di Ferdinando, Romeo, & Miglino, 2013).