OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Augmentative and Alternative Communication is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Multilingualism and augmentative and alternative communication: examining language ideology and resulting practices	25
“All of a sudden we noticed a difference at home too”: parents’ perception of a parent-focused early communication and AAC intervention for toddlers	23
Transitioning from a low- to high-tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system: effects on augmented and vocal requesting	14
An early Spanish vocabulary for children who use AAC: developmental and linguistic considerations	13
Engaging stakeholders to improve social validity: intervention priorities for students with complex communication needs	12
Centering the family in their system: a framework to promote family-centered AAC services	11
In search of a novel way to analyze early communicative behavior	9
Adapted Picture Exchange Communication System using tangible symbols for young learners with significant multiple disabilities	8
Review of methods for conducting speech research with minimally verbal individuals with autism spectrum disorder	8
Creating a response space in multiparty classroom settings for students using eye-gaze accessed speech-generating devices	8
A survey of school-age children with highly unintelligible speech	8
Augmentative and alternative communication services during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on children, their families and service providers	7
Text messaging “Helps Me to Chat”: exploring the interactional aspects of text messaging using mobile phones for youth with complex communication needs	7
A parent-implemented embedded AAC intervention for teaching navigational requests and other communicative functions to children with Autism spectrum disorder	7
Using the ImPAACT program with preschoolers with Down syndrome: a hybrid service-delivery model	7
Participant characteristics predicting communication outcomes in AAC implementation for individuals with ASD and IDD: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Naturalistic teaching approach to develop spontaneous vocalizations and augmented communication in children with autism spectrum disorder	7
Code-switching using aided AAC: toward an integrated theoretical framework	7
Dynamic assessment of augmentative and alternative communication application grid formats and communicative targets for children with autism spectrum disorder	6
Ensuring communication access for all during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: supporting patients, providers, and caregivers in hospitals	6
Current preparation status in AAC: perspectives of special education teachers in the United States	6
Advances in AAC intervention: some contributions related to applied behavior analysis	6
Providing visual directives via a smart watch to a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder: an intervention note	6
Facilitators and barriers to developing romantic and sexual relationships: lived experiences of people with complex communication needs	5
The effects of teacher-delivered behavior skills training on paraeducators' use of a communication intervention for a student with autism who uses AAC	4

Mental health matters: a pilot study exploring the experiences and perspectives of individuals with complex communication needs	4
Advances in augmentative and alternative communication research for individuals with Autism spectrum disorder: moving research and practice forward	4
Typical preschoolers’ perceptions of augmentative and alternative communication modes of a preschooler with autism spectrum disorder	4
Malaysian speech-language pathology students’ reflections about their participation in an AAC training program	4
Coaching paraeducators to implement functional communication training involving augmentative and alternative communication for students with autism spectrum disorder	4
Parent perspectives on augmentative and alternative communication in Sri Lanka	3
Prompting for repair as a language teaching strategy for augmentative and alternative communication	3
Working with children with cortical visual impairment who use augmentative and alternative communication: implications for improving current practice	3
A scoping review of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)	3
The development of a core key word signing vocabulary (Lámh) to facilitate communication with children with down syndrome in the first year of mainstream primary school in Ireland	3
Effect of online instruction on volunteers who support people with complex communication needs in active recreation	3
Using key-word signing to support learners in South African schools: a study of teachers’ perceptions	3
Speech-language pathologists’ practices in augmentative and alternative communication during early intervention	3
Vocabulary in dialogic reading: implications for AAC	2
Development of a Manually Operated Communication System (MOCS) for patients in intensive care units	2
Barriers and facilitators to accommodations in the workplace for adults who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC): a systematic review	2
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	2
AAC barriers and facilitators for children with Koolen de Vries syndrome and childhood apraxia of speech: parent perceptions	2
Effects of adapted Letter-Sound correspondence instruction with older learners with complex communication needs and autism spectrum disorder	2
Designing augmentative and alternative communication systems with Aboriginal Australians: vocabulary representation, layout, and access	2
Updated systematic-narrative review on communication intervention in Rett Syndrome: 2010–2022	2
Augmentative and alternative communication for Aboriginal Australians: Developing core vocabulary for Yolŋu speakers	2
An investigation into the relationship between Quality of pantomime gestures and visuospatial skills	2
The effect of responsiveness to speech-generating device input on spoken language in children with autism spectrum disorder who are minimally verbal^†	1
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	1
“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	1
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	1
Core vocabulary for AAC practice from Mandarin Chinese-speaking Taiwanese without disabilities	1
Expressive and receptive performance with graphic symbol sentences by individuals who use aided communication	1
A scoping review of the playground experiences of children with AAC needs*	1
Frequency of word usage by Hebrew preschoolers: implications for AAC core vocabulary	1
Assessing working memory capacity through picture span and feature binding with visual-graphic symbols during a visual search task with typical children and adults	1
Speech-language pathologists’ perceptions of augmentative and alternative communication in Thailand	1
Provision of augmentative and alternative communication interventions to Norwegian preschool children with cerebral palsy: are the right children receiving interventions?	1
The BCH message banking process, voice banking, and double-dipping	1
Is there a ‘universal’ core? Using semantic primes to select vocabulary across languages in AAC	1
Teletherapy, AAC & COVID-19: the experiences of speech language pathologists providing teletherapy during a global pandemic	1
The effect of cue type on directive-following in children with moderate to severe autism spectrum disorder	1
Relationship between lexicon and grammar in children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication	1
Effect of partner reauditorization on young adults’ attitudes toward a child who communicated using nonelectronic augmentative and alternative communication	1
Something for everybody? Assessing the suitability of AAC systems for children using stated preference methods	1
Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum	1
A qualitative study exploring the effect of communicating with partially intelligible speech	1
Using occupational therapy principles and practice to support independent message generation by individuals using AAC instead of facilitated communication	1