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Future of AAC Research Summit (2024)

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.

screenshot of Grant Blasko with other AAC users

Systemic social isolation of AAC users (Blasko, 2024)

Grant Blasko Grant Blasko is a young adult nonspeaking autistic student and part of the Summit’s Organizing Committee. He is a University of Washington DO-IT Scholar, an active member of TASH’s National Communication Access Workgroup,… 

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Speech is Simpy Exhausting (corbin, 2024)

endever* corbin endever* corbin is a multiply disabled semispeaking autistic self-advocate. Their life has improved so markedly since getting access to AAC that they now spend a lot of their time on research, presentations, consulting,…