NICHD Rehabilitation Research Conference
NICHD Rehabilitation Research at NIH: Moving the Field Forward, is being held May 25-26, 2016 in Bethesda, MD and is open to all scientists and graduate students.
Public school students: Who can pay for SGDs?
Lew Golinker, a lawyer with the Assistive Technology Law Center, provides information on funding resources for public school students who require a speech generating device.
Integrating Speech Recognition into AAC Technology (Fager, Beukelman, & Jakob, 2015)
This presentation described an AAC prototype that integrates supplemented speech recognition.
Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) with Dr Melanie Fried-Oken
Melanie Fried-Oken was interviewed on the topic of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) for the Indata podcast series.
What we write about when we write about AAC: 30 years of research and future directions. (McNaughton & Light, 2015).
While much has been learned in the past 30 years, there is a special need for reports of interventions with older individuals with complex communication needs as a result of acquired disabilities, and for information on effective interventions for the communication partners of persons with complex communication needs.