The goal of this project is to increase the communication rate of physically disabled individuals via abbreviation expansion. Currently, abbreviation expansion systems require the assignment of a unique abbreviation to each word that its user abbreviates. The user must then memorize all of these assignments. Flexible Abbreviation Expansion, one application of Automatic Abbreviation Generation, seeks to eliminate these requirements. In this approach the expansion system recognizes any well-formed abbreviation for a word, eliminating the need to define and memorize specific abbreviation assignments.