O’Neill et al examined visual attention to visual scene displays and navigation menus by individuals with developmental disabilities.
Archive | Student project
Visual Scene Displays (VSDs) with dynamic text: Supporting early reading in adults with IDD ( Holyfield et al)
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.
2016 Winner of Student Research and Design Competition
Engineering students from Penn State University and the Belgium Campus – South Africa are the winning team in the 2016 Student Research and Design Competition.
RESNA 2016
Please join us at RESNA 2016, July 10 -14 in Arlington, VA.
AAC and people who have ALS (Research project)
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.
Penn State students work to add “tone of voice” to AAC devices
A recent article in the Penn State news describes the work of student engineering teams to add “tone of voice” to AAC devices.