At the 2019 ATIA Conference, Fried-Oken and colleagues discussed the Cognitive Demands Checklist for AAC—a tool to help identify the attention, memory, and executive function demands of different AAC technologies.
Recent Publications and Presentation
Alternative access for persons with physical disabilities (Koester et al, 2025)
This paper addresses two main questions: “How well do existing alternative access methods meet users’ needs? And what is the best way to choose the “right” access method(s) for a given individual?”
Koester, H., Koch Fager, S., Gormley, J., Jakobs, E., Johnsen, K., & Brumberg, J. (2025). Supporting effective alternative access for individuals with physical disabilities: state of the science, emerging technologies, and future research directions. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2499676