ReviewAugmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)2025
Dismantling societal barriers that limit people who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions.
Review in Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Impact of Hospitals on Language Learning: A Case Study of a 3-Year-Old Boy With Developmental Delay Who Needed Augmentative and Alternative Communication.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Article
- The Use of a Visual Scene Display for the Acquisition of Manding in Young Children with Complex Communication Needs.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Effects of Video Visual Scene Displays on the Symbolic Communication of Preschool Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Peers in a Shared Video Activity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- An Examination of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Response Options for Academic Communication from Autistic Children.Journal of special education technology : a publication of Utah State University, the Association for Special Education Technology, and the Technology and Media Division of the Council for Exceptional Children · 2026Article
- External challenges for individuals who need or use AAC who are learning language: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) · 2025Review
- Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) · 2025Review
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
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Abstract
Society generally, and communication partners specifically, wield substantial power in determining access to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools and controlling the opportunities for participation afforded to people who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood. This paper integrates the lived experiences of people who need or use AAC with key research findings related to policy, practice, technology, attitude, knowledge, and skill barriers in society that limit people who need or use AAC. Future research and technology development is urgently required to dismantle societal barriers to ensure access to AAC and meaningful opportunities to participate in all aspects of society - education, employment, healthcare, leisure, family, and community.
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