OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Augmentative and Alternative Communication is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“It’s like a guessing game all the time”: parent insights on barriers, supports, and priorities for children with cortical visual impairment and complex communication needs	20
Moving beyond binary: shades of yes and no in embodied responses	17
Measuring impact of augmentative and alternative communication interventions: adapting the family impact of assistive technology scale for augmentative and alternative communication (FIATS-AAC-No) for	16
Relationship between lexicon and grammar in children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication	15
Common ground in AAC: how children who use AAC and teaching staff shape interaction in the multimodal classroom	15
A comparison of differing organizational formats for teaching requesting skills to children with autism	15
The effect of an educational program on the knowledge and attitudes of first responders about people with complex communication needs	13
Advances in augmentative and alternative communication research for individuals with Autism spectrum disorder: moving research and practice forward	13
Beyond access: the intersecting role of AAC, literacy, and technology	12
Effect of AAC intervention on communication within social routines from preschool-age emerging symbolic communicators with developmental disabilities	12
Experiences of school-based professionals delivering AAC to bilingual students in the US: challenges and strategies	12
Voice banking to support individuals who use speech-generating devices: development and evaluation of Singaporean-accented English synthetic voices and a Singapore Colloquial English recording invento	11
List of reviewers 2024	11
Aided Enhanced milieu teaching to develop symbolic and social communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder	11
“They aren’t waiting for an SLP, they think ‘what can I as a parent do now?’” course leaders’ perceptions of AAC interventions targeting parents	11
Parent perspectives on augmentative and alternative communication in Sri Lanka	10
Guessability of Indian picture symbols for communication (IPSC) and picture communication symbols (PCS) among Malayalam-speaking typical adults	9
“It’s caused our whole family to enjoy each other:” a family’s perspective on the impact of disability and AAC on the family system	8
Supporting effective alternative access for individuals with physical disabilities: state of the science, emerging technologies, and future research directions	8
Representation of aided AAC in contemporary young adult fiction	8
Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training	8
How to select AAC: further evidence from children with autism spectrum disorder and complex communication needs	7
Social validity assessment of instructional approaches for parents of children who require augmentative and alternative communication: a scoping review	7
Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum	7
Augmentative and alternative communication services during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on children, their families and service providers	7

Empowering Parents for AAC: a training and coaching intervention to support parents to implement a core board with fringe vocabulary with their children in New Zealand	7
Rethinking device abandonment: a capability approach focused model	6
Move to learn: considerations for providing upright, hands-free, self-initiated mobility to children with severe physical and communication disabilities	6
Core vocabulary for AAC practice from Mandarin Chinese-speaking Taiwanese without disabilities	6
Teaching South African center-based caregivers to implement augmentative and alternative communication strategies	6
Code-switching using aided AAC: toward an integrated theoretical framework	6
The development of synthetic child speech in three South African languages	5
Unraveling time in communicative interactions involving children who use aided communication	5
Frequency of word usage by Hebrew preschoolers: implications for AAC core vocabulary	5
Development of an Arabic core vocabulary list for children utilizing augmentative and alternative communication	5
Still having his say: David Yoder’s legacy in AAC	5
Nurse perspectives on supporting children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in the pediatric intensive care unit	5
Something for everybody? Assessing the suitability of AAC systems for children using stated preference methods	5
Malaysian speech-language pathology students’ reflections about their participation in an AAC training program	5
The prevalence of relational basic concepts on core vocabulary lists for AAC: is frequency enough?	5
Communication-related quality of life in adults with acquired neurological disorders who use augmentative and alternative communication: a scoping review of existing tools	5
Parent-implemented AAC verb symbol intervention with children with ASD	5
The effect of aided language stimulation on the acquisition of receptive vocabulary in children with complex communication needs and severe intellectual disability: a comparison of two dosages	5
A Systematic review of AAC interventions using speech generating devices for autistic preschoolers	4
A personal commentary about disability inclusion, and representation in research	4
The role of the body in SGD-mediated interactions	4
The effect of responsiveness to speech-generating device input on spoken language in children with autism spectrum disorder who are minimally verbal^†	4
Using occupational therapy principles and practice to support independent message generation by individuals using AAC instead of facilitated communication	4
Unveiling underlying systemic isolation challenges for AAC users	4
Language comprehension assessment using the computer-based instrument for low motor language testing (C-BiLLT) in children with Angelman syndrome	4
Emotional availability in mothers and their children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 who require augmentative and alternative communication: a mixed-methods pilot study	4
What relationships exist between nouns and verbs and the use of prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives in children and adolescents who use speech generating devices?	4
Lessons for the AAC field: a tribute to Dr. David Beukelman	3
Preservice speech-language pathologists’ learning outcomes with speech-generating devices	3
Thank you to the 2023 Reviewers for Augmentative and Alternative Communication	3
Designing AAC for use in social and community contexts: a scoping review	3
A scoping review of AAC interventions for children and young adults with simultaneous visual and motor impairments: Clinical and research Implications	3
Speech is exhausting	3
A qualitative pilot study of adult AAC users’ experiences related to accessing and receiving mental health services	3
A large-scale comparison of two voice synthesis techniques on intelligibility, naturalness, preferences, and attitudes toward voices banked by individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	3
Discussing future AAC: technology, interactions and ownership	3
Designing augmentative and alternative communication systems with Aboriginal Australians: vocabulary representation, layout, and access	3
Frequency of Hebrew word usage by children with intellectual and developmental disabilities: implications for AAC core vocabulary	3
The effect of non-verbal working memory on graphic symbol selection	2
“Take me seriously, talk to me, ask me questions, and listen when I speak”. An empirical analysis of experiences with AAC in young adults’ educational and social interactions	2
We need to take AAC out of the “too hard basket.” An exploration into the attitudes of Australian speech language pathologists toward AAC	2
Facilitators and barriers to developing romantic and sexual relationships: lived experiences of people with complex communication needs	2
Design of aided augmentative and alternative communication systems for children with vision impairment: psychoacoustic perspectives	2
Parental perceptions of social life before and after attending a parent training program for children with complex communication needs: the ComAlong example	2
A comparison of three modes of online key word sign training to determine efficacy and acceptability in comparison to in-person key word sign training	2
Editorial: Recognition of excellence	2
The effects of symbol format and symbol placement on identification accuracy and activation time	2
Participant characteristics predicting communication outcomes in AAC implementation for individuals with ASD and IDD: a systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Dismantling societal barriers that limit people who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions	2
The effect of AAC training programs on professionals’ knowledge, skills and self-efficacy in AAC: a scoping review	2

Effects of an AAC feature on decoding and encoding skills of adults with Down syndrome	2
Aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventions in India: A scoping review and quality appraisal	2
Embracing change in AAC technology: the keyboard to my success	2
Alternative ways to access AAC technologies	2
Future of AAC technologies: priorities for inclusive innovation	2
Consideration of artificial intelligence applications for interpreting communicative movements by individuals with visual and/or motor disabilities	2
External challenges for individuals who need or use AAC who are learning language: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions	2
Teletherapy, AAC & COVID-19: the experiences of speech language pathologists providing teletherapy during a global pandemic	2
Is there a ‘universal’ core? Using semantic primes to select vocabulary across languages in AAC	2
AAC and technology: what’s communication equity got to do with it?	2
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions that promote commenting: a systematic review	2