Bruce Baker has designed, personally and with associates, a wide range of individual systems to empower people with severe language impairments to speak.    Through MINSPEAK® brand systems, the powerful language representation technique which he developed, he has helped empower communication for more than 65,000 individuals with severe disabilities worldwide. The system has been translated and licensed in French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. For Worldwide Distribution outside the U.S., go to Prentke Romich International and domestically to Prentke Romich Company.

Bruce is currently Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, holding appointments in two departments. He also serves that School on its Board of Visitors.   He is President of Semantic Compaction Systems and has served as consulting linguist to a series of companies, including the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.    

He is the recipient of the National Design Award from United Cerebral Palsy Associations, the Distinguished Service Award from the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America, and the Distinguished Service Award from the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.   He is regularly invited to speak at international societies as keynoter in Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Bruce did his undergraduate and graduate work in Greek, Latin, and Linguistics at Wabash College (Voices Raised article), Indiana University, Middlebury College, and the University of Paris.   He has taught widely in the United States and Europe.   In 1980 as part of doctoral work in linguistics, he developed the semantic compaction language representation technique.