Message banking: Perceptions of persons with motor neuron disease, significant others and clinicians.

Purpose: Message banking is an intervention strategy that has the potential to facilitate effective communication for people with motor neuron disease when their condition deteriorates to the extent that they cannot communicate using natural speech. The aim of the current study was to determine and compare the perceptions on message banking of three stakeholder groups, namely, persons with motor neuron disease, their significant others and speech-language pathologists.

Method: A comparative group survey design was used.