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Evidence-based intervention & apps to improve literacy outcomes for children with autism who require AAC (Light et al)

December 17, 2016 by David McNaughton

Evidence-based intervention and AAC apps to support the literacy development of children with autism and complex communication needs

Filed Under: News, Presentation, Research

Preliminary investigation of eye gaze on visual scene displays with navigation menu (O’Neill et al.)

December 17, 2016 by David McNaughton

O’Neill et al examined visual attention to visual scene displays and navigation menus by individuals with developmental disabilities.

Filed Under: News, Presentation, Research, Student project

Visual Scene Displays (VSDs) with dynamic text: Supporting early reading in adults with IDD ( Holyfield et al)

December 8, 2016 by David McNaughton

The current study explores the impact of an AAC app designed to foster literacy development on single word reading performance in adults with intellectual disabilities.

Filed Under: News, Presentation, Research, Student project

Grid displays to literacy: Effect of dynamic text on word reading for individuals with ASD (Caron et al., 2016)

December 7, 2016 by David McNaughton

In this research study, children and adolescents with ASD made use of a Transition to Literacy feature in an AAC app.

Filed Under: News, Presentation, Research, Student project Tagged With: transition to literacy

Designing AAC systems to enhance language & communication development (Light, 2016)

December 5, 2016 by David McNaughton

This session shared results from many research studies to improve the design of AAC apps to increase appeal, reduce learning demands, and support language, literacy, and communication.

Filed Under: Presentation, Research Tagged With: Light

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Recent Posts

  • The first word in accessibility is “access” (Regan, 2025)
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  • Future of AAC technologies: priorities for inclusive innovation (Williams & Holyfield, 2025)
  • Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training (Blasko et al., 2025)
  • To include us in our own worlds: AAC is not optional (Koloni, 2025)

Recent Publications and Presentation

Patrick Regan and a quote from his article in the AAC journal

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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