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

Pancho Ramirez (2025) describes his evolving use of AAC, including laser pointers, an air mouse, and his participation in clinical trials with a brain computer interface. He emphasizes the importance of supporting communication with family members (in multiple languages!), and his strategies for active community participation.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2513902

Kevin Williams and Christine Holyfield (2025) describe the importance of AAC innovations that incorporate “intuitiveness, feasibility, sustainability, solutions for those who currently benefit the least from existing technologies, affordability, and parallel advocacy work for expanded AAC funding”

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https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2513906

A call for meaningful inclusion for AAC users, by Grant Blasko, Janice Light, David McNaughton, Bob Williams, and Jordyn Zimmerman, now published.

Free access in AAC journal at
https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2514748

Ren Koloni describes how despite advances in the field of AAC, “the vast majority of people who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood still lack meaningful access to effective communication that meets their physical, emotional, social, and cultural needs, and fulfills the civil and human rights to which they are entitled.”

Now free at the AAC journal
https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2515283