Introducing Access Navigator 1.0 – to support decision-making for alternative access

We’re excited to announce the release of Access Navigator software: a free tool to support decision-making for alternative access!

Introducing Access Navigator 1.0

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Review article: Supporting effective alternative access for individuals with physical disabilities

Check out our review article on supporting effective alternative access for individuals with physical disabilities. Part of the AAC Journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration.

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Today’s blog post features the review article titled: Supporting effective alternative access for individuals with physical disabilities: state of the science, emerging technologies, and future research directions. This is part of the AAC journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration.

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Embracing change in AAC technology: the keyboard to my success

Read Tim Jin’s paper on his lived experience as someone who uses alternative access and AAC. Part of the AAC Journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration.

Title is the keyboard to my success. This post features Tim Jin's article on how he uses his keyboard with his toes. The image also shows a picture of Tim and a screenshot of the paper's abstract.Today’s blog post features Tim Jin’s paper: Embracing change in AAC technology: the keyboard to my success. This is part of the AAC journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration. All of the papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses AAC.

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Pancho Ramirez: Alternative ways to access AAC technologies

Read Pancho Ramirez’s paper on his lived experience as someone who uses alternative access and AAC. Part of the AAC Journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration.


Today’s blog post features Pancho Ramirez’s paper: Alternative ways to access AAC technologies. This is part of the AAC journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration. All of the papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses AAC.

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The first word in accessibility is “access”

Read Patrick Regan’s paper on his lived experience as someone who uses alternative access and AAC. Part of the AAC Journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration.

Title is The first word in accessibility is access. This is the title of Patrick Regan's article. Image also includes a screenshot of the article abstract and a photo of Patrick.
The AAC journal’s special issue on AAC Research: The Power of Collaboration includes 21 papers from the Future of AAC Research Summit. All of the papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses AAC. Today’s blog post features Patrick Regan’s paper: The first word in accessibility is “access.”

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Special Issue of the AAC Journal

Check out the special issue of the AAC journal, including 21 papers from the Future of AAC Research Summit. Free access to all articles!

Special Issue of the AAC Journal
The AAC journal has recently published a special issue based on the Future of AAC Research Summit held in spring, 2024. All of the papers are authored or co-authored by someone who uses AAC.
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ATIA 2025 Conference Preview

Join the RERC on AAC along with practitioners and researchers from the assistive technology community at the ATIA 2025 conference. We’ll present on our AAC projects and look forward to seeing you at the RERC on AAC exhibit booth!

Logo for ATIA 2025 conference
Join the RERC on AAC at our presentations and our booth in the exhibit hall for the ATIA 2025 conference. ATIA 2025 is where the assistive technology community will gather, January 30 – February 1, in Orlando, Florida and virtually! Over the past 25 years, the ATIA conference has been a leading community-building and learning event for all things AT.

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Request for participants: Try our Access Navigator app

If you have experience prescribing access devices for individuals with severe motor impairments, please help us evaluate a new app called Access Navigator.

Request for participants: Try our Access Navigator app
We are developing an app called Access Navigator with the RERC on AAC to help clinicians complete alternative access evaluations. We now have a working app, and we really need people to try it out. Please consider participating in our evaluation study for Access Navigator and read on to learn more.

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ATIA 2024 Conference Preview

Join the RERC on AAC along with practitioners and researchers from the assistive technology community at the ATIA 2024 conference. We’ll present on our AAC projects and look forward to seeing you at the RERC on AAC exhibit booth!

ATIA Conference Preview
ATIA 2024 is where the assistive technology community will gather, January 25–27, in Orlando, Florida and virtually! Over the past 24 years, the ATIA conference has been the leading community-building and learning event for all things AT. Join the RERC on AAC at our presentations and our booth in the exhibit hall.

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AT-node revisited: explore the data on typing with assistive technology

Our free AT-node for access website is back up and running. How fast can people with physical disabilities type when using different assistive technologies? Use AT-node to get evidence to enhance your understanding.

AT-node is a website that organizes the available research evidence on text entry rates (typing speeds) for people with physical disabilities. We built it a few years ago, and recently it had not been working due to necessary platform changes. I finally got around to fixing it, and now you can run AT-node for Access again.

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