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Visual Fixation Patterns to AAC Displays Are Significantly Correlated with Motor Selection for Individuals with Down Syndrome or Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
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Krista M. Wilkinson; Savanna Brittlebank; Allison Barwise; Tara O'Neill Zimmerman; Janice Light – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Eye tracking research technologies are often used to study how individuals attend visually to different types of AAC displays (e.g. visual scene displays, grid displays). The assumption is that efficiency of visual search may relate to efficiency of motor selection necessary for communication via aided AAC; however, this assumption has not…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Pattern Recognition, Visual Stimuli, Eye Movements
Effects of a Literacy Feature in an Augmentative and Alternative Communication App on Single-Word Reading of Individuals with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Caron, Jessica; Light, Janice; McNaughton, David – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app with transition to literacy (T2L) software features (i.e., dynamic text and speech output upon selection of a graphic symbol within the grid display) on the acquisition of 12 personally relevant single words for individuals with…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Severe Disabilities