Boyle et al. completed a systematic review to investigate the impact of shared reading on early language and literacy skills for children with ASD.
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Learning styles and motivations of individuals without prior exposure to AAC (Thiessen & Beukelman, 2019)
Thiessen and Beukelman (2019) Investigated the learning styles and motivation of individuals without prior exposure to AAC
Student Engineering Partnerships for Spring 2019
The RERC on AAC partnered with a student engineering Learning Factory team at Penn State University in the spring of 2019
Effects of literacy instruction on single-word reading (Mandak et al., 2018)
Mandak et al. completed a systematic review to investigate the effects of instruction on single-word reading for individuals who use AAC.
The employment experiences of adults with ASD who use AAC (Richardson, McCoy, & McNaughton, 2019)
Richardson et al describe the employment experiences of 7 individuals with ASD who use AAC in the workplace.
Providing services in the inpatient rehabilitation setting (Gormley & Light, 2019)
Gormley and Light describe the experiences of 11 SLPs who work with people with complex communication needs within the inpatient rehabilitation setting
RERC on AAC: Progress on Research, Development, and Training Activities (McNaughton et al., 2019)
At the 2019 ATIA Conference, McNaughton et al. shared progress updates on the many research, development, and training activities of the RERC on AAC.
Cognitive Demands Checklist for AAC (Fried-Oken, et al., 2019)
At the 2019 ATIA Conference, Fried-Oken and colleagues discussed the Cognitive Demands Checklist for AAC—a tool to help identify the attention, memory, and executive function demands of different AAC technologies.
Training SLPs to provide adapted literacy instruction (Caron et al., 2019)
At the 2019 ATIA Conference, Caron and colleagues shared findings from a study in which SLPs were trained in adapted literacy instruction from online modules.
Building capacity in AAC (McNaughton et al., 2019)
McNaughton et al. describe strategies to build capacity and awareness in the AAC field to ensure appropriate AAC supports are provided.