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.
Grid displays to literacy: Effect of dynamic text on word reading for individuals with ASD (Caron et al., 2016)
In this research study, children and adolescents with ASD made use of a Transition to Literacy feature in an AAC app.
Visual/cognitive processing demands of keyboard layouts for individuals with & without TBI (Fager et al, 2016)
This poster session at ASHA 2016 examined the visual-cognitive processing demands of using an ABC and QWERTY onscreen keyboard by individuals with and without TBI.
Using human factors to evaluate emerging Augmented Reality (AR) Technologies (Richtsmeier & Light, 2017)
Recent advances in the field of augmented reality present a new opportunity for AAC systems that are more contextually integrated, relevant and cognitively salient.
ISAAC 2016
RERC on AAC partners David Beukelman, Melanie Fried-Oken, and Janice Light presented in Toronto, Canada, for ISAAC 2016, August 8 – 11, 2016.