What advances have been made to date in AAC interventions for children? And what are the challenges that we need to address to improve outcomes?
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Fast switch scanning keyboards: Minimal expected query decision trees (Higger et al, 2016)
Within AAC, switch scanning is a common paradigm for spelling where a set of characters is highlighted and the user is queried as to whether their target character is in the highlighted set. This work seeks a decision tree which requires the fewest expected queries per decision sequence (EQPD).
A kronecker product structured EEG covariance estimator for a language model assisted-BCI (Gonzalez-Navarro & Moghadamfalahi, 2016)
in this manuscript we propose a Kronecker product structure for covariance matrices
Spatio-temporal EEG models for brain interfaces (Gonzalez-Navarro et al, 2017)
In this paper we propose a structure for the covariance matrices of the multichannel EEG signals.
Effect of Message Type on the Visual Attention of Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury (Thiessen et al., 2017).
This investigation provides preliminary evidence of the relationship between image and message type for people with TBI.
Student Engineering Partnerships for Spring 2017
The RERC on AAC partnered with three student engineering Learning Factory teams at Penn State University in the spring of 2017
Penn State News highlights AAC Think Tank
Penn State News featured the RERC on AAC Doctoral Student Think Tank in a recent news story
RERC on AAC Think Tank
The Doctoral Student AAC Research Think Tank was held at Penn State University from May 16 – May 18, 2017.
Effects of “Transition to Literacy” software on sight word recognition skills … (Boyle et al., 2017)
Suz Boyle and Ashley McCoy presented on the effects of T2L software at CEC in Boston.
Reading and Writing Intervention for Adults with Complex Communication Needs (Caron et al., 2017)
Caron et al presented case studies of literacy instruction for adults with complex communication needs