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How to Interact with Someone on the Spectrum: Peer Training Developed by an Autistic College Student

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– AAC user: this training shows how INSTRUCT can be used by people with disabilities, including those who benefit from AAC, to develop their own trainings for their communication partners  
– Communication partner: this training was created by an autistic college student to teach his peers how to interact with him based on his lived experience 
– Target skill: how to interact with someone on the spectrum (based on one autistic college student’s lived experience)

Bob Williams and abstract

AAC & technology: What’s communication equity got to do with it? (Williams, 2024)

“Many, if not most, people who need AAC are still denied effective language-based AAC; assumed illiterate for life; and subjected to extreme isolation and violence. We must secure fundamental fairness and mitigate the multiple and compounding biases and discrimination that those who require AAC endure. We must envisage ways in which people who use AAC can be better heard and live in community with all others.”

This presentation was first made at the Future of AAC Research Summit on May 13, 2024.

The iPad and mobile technology revolution: Benefits and challenges (McNaughton & Light, 2013)

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The iPad and other mobile technologies provide powerful new tools to potentially enhance communication for individuals with developmental disabilities, acquired neurogenic disorders, and degenerative neurological conditions. These mobile technologies offer a number of potential benefits, including: (a) increased awareness and social acceptance of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), (b) greater consumer empowerment in accessing AAC solutions, (c) increased adoption of AAC technologies, (d) greater functionality and interconnectivity, and (e) greater diffusion of AAC research and development. However, there remain a number of significant challenges that must be addressed if these benefits are to be fully realized…