RERC on AAC

ISAAC 2016

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Beukelman, Fried-Oken, LIght
 
RERC on AAC partners David Beukelman, Melanie Fried-Oken, and Janice Light presented in Toronto, Canada, for ISAAC 2016, August 8 – 11, 2016.
 
Monday, August 8

• Designing AAC interventions and research to improve outcomes for individuals with complex communication needs
Janice Light, David McNaughton (handout as pdf)

Tuesday, August 9

• Evidence-based Literacy Intervention and Apps for Individuals Who Require AAC
Janice Light, David McNaughton, Jessica Gosnell Caron (handout as pdf)

Wednesday, August 10

• Designing effective AAC systems for young children with complex communication needs to support communication development
Janice Light (handout as pdf)

• Providing Communication Access for Patients: The Role of AAC Across Healthcare Settings
  Sarah Blackstone, David Beukelman, John Costello, Richard Hurtig, Lisa Bardach, Kathryn Yorkston (handout as pdf)

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Adults with Total Locked-In Syndrome
   Betts Peters, Brandon Eddy, Kendra McInturf, Melanie Fried-Oken (handout as pdf)

Thursday, August 11

• Research and Development Project Update of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for AAC
Janice Light, Melanie Fried-Oken, David McNaughton, David Beukelman, Susan Fager, Tom Jakobs (handout as pdf)

• Challenges and opportunities in creating synergy between AAC and brain-computer interfaces
Melanie Fried-Oken, Hochberg Leigh, Jane Huggins, Mary Ann Romski, Theresa Vaughan (handout as pdf)

• Using Communication Supports to Enhance Communication Effectiveness of People with Severely Dysarthric Speech  (handout as pdf )
David Beukelman, Susan Fager

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

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