Boyle et al describe the results of a pilot study intervention using digital texts including VSDs and T2L features with children with language delays in an inclusive preschool setting.
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Improving literacy outcomes for individuals with ASD and limited speech
This webcast summarizes the positive results observed for research-based literacy interventions with individuals with ASD
2018 Student Research & Design Competition: Access and AAC
The RERC on AAC is pleased to announce the 2018 Student Research and Design Competition
Family-centered services for children with ASD and limited speech: The experiences of parents and speech-language pathologists (Mandak & Light, 2017)
99 parents of children with ASD and limited speech and 211 SLPs who served children with ASD and limited speech completed questionnaires measuring their experiences with the provision of family-centered services.
Students from Northeastern University win 2017 RERC on AAC Award
Fernando Quivira and Matt Higger (Northeastern University) won the 2017 RERC on AAC Student Research and Design Competition
AAC intervention to build communication, language, and literacy skills with children with complex communication needs… (Light, 2016)
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?
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.