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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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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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!

Join me at the RESNA 2021 Virtual Conference
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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!

New mega-review of literature on AT and education
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Assistive technology for Rett syndrome: a systematic review

Have you seen the 2019 systematic review covering assistive technology as an intervention for individuals with Rett syndrome? If not, read on for a summary of the research on assistive technology for Rett syndrome.

Assistive technology for Rett syndrome: a systematic review. Photo shows a young girl using a computer-based AAC system. An adult is alongside her, holding her hand.
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In-person training improves assistive technology outcomes

In a recent research study, people who received in-person training from an occupational therapist had significantly better outcomes with their computer assistive technology, as compared to people who used a home-study program or those who received no training at all. Read on for a summary of this 2019 study from France.

In-person training improves assistive technology outcomes. Two images: one showing an occupational therapist and a person with a spinal cord injury working together. The other shows a close-up of a person typing using a typing splint.
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Your Guide to 10+ One-hand Typing Options

Here’s a guide to currently available methods and devices for one-hand typing. If you need to type with one hand due to a limb difference, stroke, or other motor impairment, this guide will help you sort through your options for productive typing.

One-handed typing: What's available?  Pictures show 3 example options -- one-hand touch typing, tapping codes on touchscreen, and a chorded keyboard in the palm

This post focuses on options for people who need to type using the fingers of a single hand, possibly with a bit of help from the other hand but often completely solo. Depending on your specific needs, it might work well to use a standard physical keyboard with one hand, but you might want to consider various options such as one-handed techniques, alternative keyboard layouts, or novel methods of text input. The key is to make an informed choice to make sure your one-hand typing method truly meets your needs. In our last post, we described 12 considerations to think about when choosing a one-hand typing method. Here, we examine a variety of specific one-hand typing options that are available and see how they stack up on those considerations.

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