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AAC and people who have ALS (Research project)

June 8, 2016 by David McNaughton

Update: July 25, 2016. So that we may focus on summarizing and sharing the information we have received to date, we are no longer accepting new participants in this project.

Filed Under: Research, Student project

Visual attention patterns of people with aphasia for Visual Scenes (Thiessen et al., 2016)

May 31, 2016 by David McNaughton

Participants with aphasia responded to engagement cues by focusing on objects of interest more for task-engaged scenes than camera-engaged scenes …

Filed Under: News, Publication, Research

Experiences of individuals With ALS who use AAC and social media. (Caron & Light, 2015)

May 27, 2016 by David McNaughton

This study explored how people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (pALS) use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and social media to address their communication needs

Filed Under: News, Publication, Research

NARIC highlights work on social media and AAC

May 27, 2016 by David McNaughton

  NARIC highlighted the recent RERC on AAC publication on the use of social media by persons with ALS who use AAC in their Research in Focus newsletter. The NARIC article was subsequently redistributed by the American Congress on Rehabilitation Medicine eBlast. The original full article is available from the NARIC collection under accession number J73049. […]

Filed Under: News, Publication, Research

RERC on AAC (2016 Update)

February 4, 2016 by David McNaughton

The RERC on AAC partners used this forum to present our individual projects and discuss our progress through Year 1.

Filed Under: News, Presentation, Research

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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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