Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparison of differing organizational formats for teaching requesting skills to children with autism18
Common ground in AAC: how children who use AAC and teaching staff shape interaction in the multimodal classroom17
Measuring impact of augmentative and alternative communication interventions: adapting the family impact of assistive technology scale for augmentative and alternative communication (FIATS-AAC-No) for15
“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 needs14
Effect of AAC intervention on communication within social routines from preschool-age emerging symbolic communicators with developmental disabilities12
Relationship between lexicon and grammar in children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication12
The effect of an educational program on the knowledge and attitudes of first responders about people with complex communication needs12
Moving beyond binary: shades of yes and no in embodied responses12
Advances in augmentative and alternative communication research for individuals with Autism spectrum disorder: moving research and practice forward12
Experiences of school-based professionals delivering AAC to bilingual students in the US: challenges and strategies11
List of reviewers 202410
Beyond access: the intersecting role of AAC, literacy, and technology10
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 invento9
“They aren’t waiting for an SLP, they think ‘what can I as a parent do now?’” course leaders’ perceptions of AAC interventions targeting parents9
Parent perspectives on augmentative and alternative communication in Sri Lanka9
Aided Enhanced milieu teaching to develop symbolic and social communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder9
Guessability of Indian picture symbols for communication (IPSC) and picture communication symbols (PCS) among Malayalam-speaking typical adults8
Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training8
Teaching South African center-based caregivers to implement augmentative and alternative communication strategies7
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 Zealand7
Augmentative and alternative communication services during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on children, their families and service providers7
Representation of aided AAC in contemporary young adult fiction7
Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum6
Core vocabulary for AAC practice from Mandarin Chinese-speaking Taiwanese without disabilities6
Supporting effective alternative access for individuals with physical disabilities: state of the science, emerging technologies, and future research directions6
Rethinking device abandonment: a capability approach focused model6
Social validity assessment of instructional approaches for parents of children who require augmentative and alternative communication: a scoping review6
How to select AAC: further evidence from children with autism spectrum disorder and complex communication needs6
Malaysian speech-language pathology students’ reflections about their participation in an AAC training program5
Parent-implemented AAC verb symbol intervention with children with ASD5
Move to learn: considerations for providing upright, hands-free, self-initiated mobility to children with severe physical and communication disabilities5
Something for everybody? Assessing the suitability of AAC systems for children using stated preference methods5
Nurse perspectives on supporting children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in the pediatric intensive care unit5
Unraveling time in communicative interactions involving children who use aided communication5
Communication-related quality of life in adults with acquired neurological disorders who use augmentative and alternative communication: a scoping review of existing tools5
Code-switching using aided AAC: toward an integrated theoretical framework5
Frequency of word usage by Hebrew preschoolers: implications for AAC core vocabulary4
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 dosages4
A Systematic review of AAC interventions using speech generating devices for autistic preschoolers4
Development of an Arabic core vocabulary list for children utilizing augmentative and alternative communication4
Using occupational therapy principles and practice to support independent message generation by individuals using AAC instead of facilitated communication4
The development of synthetic child speech in three South African languages4
Still having his say: David Yoder’s legacy in AAC4
The prevalence of relational basic concepts on core vocabulary lists for AAC: is frequency enough?4
A scoping review of AAC interventions for children and young adults with simultaneous visual and motor impairments: Clinical and research Implications3
A large-scale comparison of two voice synthesis techniques on intelligibility, naturalness, preferences, and attitudes toward voices banked by individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis3
The role of the body in SGD-mediated interactions3
Lessons for the AAC field: a tribute to Dr. David Beukelman3
Preservice speech-language pathologists’ learning outcomes with speech-generating devices3
Language comprehension assessment using the computer-based instrument for low motor language testing (C-BiLLT) in children with Angelman syndrome3
Unveiling underlying systemic isolation challenges for AAC users3
The effect of responsiveness to speech-generating device input on spoken language in children with autism spectrum disorder who are minimally verbal†3
What relationships exist between nouns and verbs and the use of prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives in children and adolescents who use speech generating devices?3
Emotional availability in mothers and their children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 who require augmentative and alternative communication: a mixed-methods pilot study3
A personal commentary about disability inclusion, and representation in research3
A qualitative pilot study of adult AAC users’ experiences related to accessing and receiving mental health services2
Discussing future AAC: technology, interactions and ownership2
Facilitators and barriers to developing romantic and sexual relationships: lived experiences of people with complex communication needs2
Consideration of artificial intelligence applications for interpreting communicative movements by individuals with visual and/or motor disabilities2
Design of aided augmentative and alternative communication systems for children with vision impairment: psychoacoustic perspectives2
Designing augmentative and alternative communication systems with Aboriginal Australians: vocabulary representation, layout, and access2
Speech is exhausting2
Frequency of Hebrew word usage by children with intellectual and developmental disabilities: implications for AAC core vocabulary2
Participant characteristics predicting communication outcomes in AAC implementation for individuals with ASD and IDD: a systematic review and meta-analysis2
External challenges for individuals who need or use AAC who are learning language: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions2
The BCH message banking process, voice banking, and double-dipping2
Thank you to the 2023 Reviewers for Augmentative and Alternative Communication2
Dismantling societal barriers that limit people who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions2
We need to take AAC out of the “too hard basket.” An exploration into the attitudes of Australian speech language pathologists toward AAC2
The effect of AAC training programs on professionals’ knowledge, skills and self-efficacy in AAC: a scoping review2
Considering whether brain–computer interfaces have prospective potential to support children who have the physical abilities for touch-based AAC access: a forum manuscript1
Visual-perceptual features of augmentative and alternative communication displays affect efficiency of motor reaching by individuals with Down syndrome: a pilot study1
Speech-language pathologists’ perspectives on augmentative and alternative communication assessment and intervention across language domains: A crosslinguistic replication study1
The effects of symbol format and symbol placement on identification accuracy and activation time1
Development of a Manually Operated Communication System (MOCS) for patients in intensive care units1
The effect of non-verbal working memory on graphic symbol selection1
AAC and technology: what’s communication equity got to do with it?1
“I don’t think you can really understand it until you put it to action”: school-based SLPs’ reflections on graduate and continuing education in AAC1
Teletherapy, AAC & COVID-19: the experiences of speech language pathologists providing teletherapy during a global pandemic1
Smart Predict: adding partner-suggested vocabulary to increase efficiency in a dual tablet AAC typing application1
Environmental factors contributing to using spelling in communication: Perceptions of literate aided communicators1
Alternative ways to access AAC technologies1
Editorial: Recognition of excellence1
A comparison of three modes of online key word sign training to determine efficacy and acceptability in comparison to in-person key word sign training1
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions that promote commenting: a systematic review1
Effects of an AAC feature on decoding and encoding skills of adults with Down syndrome1
Current preparation status in AAC: perspectives of special education teachers in the United States1
Attitudes Toward and Perceived Communicative Competence of Individuals with Aphasia Using Speech-Generating Devices1
Describing the communicative profiles of young children with a significant cognitive and motor developmental delay1
Supporting students with complex communication needs: special education teachers’ reflections on their training1
Aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventions in India: A scoping review and quality appraisal1
Embracing change in AAC technology: the keyboard to my success1
Prompting for repair as a language teaching strategy for augmentative and alternative communication1
Future of AAC technologies: priorities for inclusive innovation1
Is there a ‘universal’ core? Using semantic primes to select vocabulary across languages in AAC1
Parental perceptions of social life before and after attending a parent training program for children with complex communication needs: the ComAlong example1
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