All were extremely vulnerable adults, with limited communication abilities and a range of physical disabilities, including blindness.

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On May 19, 2013, with all of our vaunted communication abilities -- 24-hour television news, universal cellphones, Twitter, Facebook, the all-but-countless ways to stay in touch -- would such an event merit merely a shrug?

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It will be designed to cater for each individual's communication needs and abilities and is the size of a credit card.

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When teaching literacy, the facilitators systematically work to develop four complementary abilities: oral communication, reading, writing and vocabulary expansion.

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