RERC on AAC: Progress on Research, Development, and Training Activities

Speaker: David McNaughton; Erik Jakobs; Heidi Koester

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC) is a 5-year collaborative center (2020-2025), funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). The RERC on AAC (https://rerc-aac.psu.edu) will address research, development, training and dissemination projects in AAC. We will summarize our progress on three research projects (video visual scene display technology,  AAC technologies to support the transition from graphic symbols to literacy,  design of AAC interfaces) and three development projects (multimodal technologies to improve access, software supports for access assessments, software supports for partner training). We also will present on the training and dissemination activities, including the AAC Learning Center (https://aac-learning-center.psu.edu) 

Learning Objectives: 

1. Describe the three research projects of the RERC on AAC;
2. Describe the three development projects of the RERC on AAC;
3. Describe the training and dissemination activities of the RERC on AAC, 
4. Describe three currently available training modules from the RERC on AAC Learning Center Moodle
5. Describe the goals and activities of the AAC Consumer and Technology Forum

Completion of all product components earns 0.1 IACET CEUs. 

Webinar recorded at the RESNA 2022 Conference