“Every message already takes attention, motor planning, and time,” says Hari Srinivasan, Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate and AAC user. “When technology adds corrections and guesswork, it compounds that effort.” He explains how engineered exclusion harms AAC users and how designed dignity enhances inclusion.
The journal of Augmentative and Alternative Communication published papers from our Future of AAC Research Summit! Nearly all of the 21 papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses AAC. Access these papers and watch many of the authors present now.
Typing with his toes is one way our Board Director Tim Jin communicates. Tim’s key(board) to success has been embracing change in AAC technology! Learn more from his AAC Research Summit talk.
This resource includes quick tips written by AAC users on organizing and hosting online meetings with AAC users.
CommunicationFIRST held a brainstorming session to begin to identify some of the “good, bad, and ugly” ways technologies can uniquely impact people with speech-related disabilities.
CommunicationFIRST publicly recruited a diverse group of AAC users who were willing to be interviewed on camera about their priorities for AAC research.
In a first-of-its-kind event held May 13-14, 2024, people with speech-related disabilities from around the U.S. told senior federal officials and researchers how future research dollars should be prioritized.
