AAC-RERC Research Areas and Projects

Research Projects

R1 Improving AAC technology to better support societal roles

• R1-A: Literacy Support Technologies for AAC Users
• R1-B: Telework to Improve Employment Outcomes for AAC Users
• R1-C: Specialized AAC Vocabulary Research

R2 Enhancing AAC access by reducing cognitive/linguistic load

• R2-A: Contextual Scenes for Beginning Communicators
• R2-B: Contextual Scenes for Adults with Aphasia
• R2-C: Contextual Scenes and Intelligent Agents for Persons with Autism

R3 Enhancing AAC usability and performance

• R3-A: Improving Interface Performance Efficiency between AAC/IT Systems
• R3-B: Communication Performance Assessment: Monitoring/Simulating AAC

Development Projects

D1 Technology and Policy Watch

• D1-A: Technology and Policy Watch

D2 New Interfaces

• D2-A: AAC Technology to Supplement Intelligibility of Residual Speech
• D2-B: Recognition of Dysarthric Speech
• D2-C: Gesture Recognition
• D2-D: Brain Interface

D3 Reducing the cognitive linguistic burden on AAC users

• D3-A: AAC WebCrawling-Communication Content from the Internet
• D3-B: Enhancing the Role of Listeners in AAC Interactions

Training Projects

• T1: High School Training in AAC/AT
• T2: AAC Users Writer's Workshop
• T3: ACETS Online through E-Coaching
• T4: Webcast Series
• T5: State of the Science Conference

Dissemination Projects