AT Research Archives

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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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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 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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Join me at the RESNA 2021 Conference

Don’t miss the RESNA 2021 Virtual Conference, July 7-9, 2021! Registration deadline is Friday, June 25, 2021. I’ll be part of three presentations (more on these below). Hope to see you there!

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New mega-review of literature on AT and education

Dave Edyburn spent the last year reviewing over 900 articles on assistive technology and education. He shared the findings in several reports, and even compiled a database of all the articles. Read on for details!

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