RERC on AAC

T3: Student Research and Design Challenges

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RESNA SDCPurpose: To encourage student R&D in AAC through an AAC Student Research and Design Competition, and to support the RESNA Student Design Challenge at a free website.

Activities: We will sponsor an annual Student Research and Design Competition on thematic topics related to AAC (e.g., innovative access techniques, wearable AAC technology). In addition, the RERC on AAC will continue to support the availability of a website (https://sites.psu.edu/resnasdc/) at which over 350 student submissions to the RESNA Student Design Challenge are now publicly available.

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentation

The first word in accessibility is “access” (Regan, 2025)

Patrick Regan (2025) is President-Elect of USSAAC, and he also plays leadership roles in ISAAC, and in outreach programs for the Bridge School. Patrick experiences Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and has used a wide variety of AAC to communicate. In this paper, he describes “access challenges that I have experienced as someone who uses AAC, how my team and I have resolved them, and what challenges I face now.”

Now free at the AAC journal
https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2513912

Other recent activity

Conferences

Recent

ASHA (2024) handouts and virtual posters

ATIA (2025) handouts

Upcoming

ASHA 2025

 

 

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The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90REGE0014) to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this website do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.