RESNA Student Design Competition
The RERC on AAC will provide website support for the RESNA Student Design Competition in 2015. The competition provides an opportunity for rehabilitation engineering students to share their capstone projects, and each year student teams are invited to present their work at the RESNA conference.
Supporting Communication of Individuals with Minimal Movement (webcast)
In this free webcast, Susan Fager and David Beukelman describe AAC technology for persons with minimal movement
AAC for Persons with Primary Progressive Aphasia (webcast)
In this free webcast, Melanie Fried-Oken describes her research on AAC intervention for people with primary progressive aphasia.
ATIA – 2015
RERC on AAC partners Susan Fager and Tom Jakobs presented at ATIA 2015 in Orlando, Florida
RERC on AAC
The RERC on AAC is a collaborative center committed to advancing knowledge and producing innovative engineering solutions in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The RERC on AAC will support a research and development program that addresses three areas of rehabilitation science and engineering: Improving access to technologies through exploration of innovative approaches and through integration of multi-modalities; Developing […]
Penn State researchers explore the future of augmentative communication
An article in the Penn State news provided information on the newly funded RERC on AAC
RERC on AAC
Our goal is that the AAC technologies and knowledge generated by the RERC on AAC will enable individuals with complex communication needs to achieve the basic human right of communication, and to maximize their participation in education, employment, health and community activities
Announcing the RERC on AAC
Studies underway to help children, adults overcome communications obstacles Research focuses on improving outcomes for those who rely on alternative communication Marjorie S. Miller October 31, 2014 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Earlier this year Penn State’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) was awarded a grant by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation […]
AAC at Oregon Health and Science University
Dr Melanie Fried-Oken describes the role of the Oregon Health and Science University in the RERC on AAC