OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Augmentative and Alternative Communication is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
A comparison of differing organizational formats for teaching requesting skills to children with autism	18
Common ground in AAC: how children who use AAC and teaching staff shape interaction in the multimodal classroom	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	15
“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	14
Effect of AAC intervention on communication within social routines from preschool-age emerging symbolic communicators with developmental disabilities	12
Relationship between lexicon and grammar in children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication	12
The effect of an educational program on the knowledge and attitudes of first responders about people with complex communication needs	12
Moving beyond binary: shades of yes and no in embodied responses	12
Advances in augmentative and alternative communication research for individuals with Autism spectrum disorder: moving research and practice forward	12
Experiences of school-based professionals delivering AAC to bilingual students in the US: challenges and strategies	11
List of reviewers 2024	10
Beyond access: the intersecting role of AAC, literacy, and technology	10
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	9
“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	9
Parent perspectives on augmentative and alternative communication in Sri Lanka	9
Aided Enhanced milieu teaching to develop symbolic and social communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorder	9
Guessability of Indian picture symbols for communication (IPSC) and picture communication symbols (PCS) among Malayalam-speaking typical adults	8
Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training	8
Teaching South African center-based caregivers to implement augmentative and alternative communication strategies	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
Augmentative and alternative communication services during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on children, their families and service providers	7
Representation of aided AAC in contemporary young adult fiction	7
Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum	6
Core vocabulary for AAC practice from Mandarin Chinese-speaking Taiwanese without disabilities	6
Supporting effective alternative access for individuals with physical disabilities: state of the science, emerging technologies, and future research directions	6

Rethinking device abandonment: a capability approach focused model	6
Social validity assessment of instructional approaches for parents of children who require augmentative and alternative communication: a scoping review	6
How to select AAC: further evidence from children with autism spectrum disorder and complex communication needs	6
Malaysian speech-language pathology students’ reflections about their participation in an AAC training program	5
Parent-implemented AAC verb symbol intervention with children with ASD	5
Move to learn: considerations for providing upright, hands-free, self-initiated mobility to children with severe physical and communication disabilities	5
Something for everybody? Assessing the suitability of AAC systems for children using stated preference methods	5
Nurse perspectives on supporting children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in the pediatric intensive care unit	5
Unraveling time in communicative interactions involving children who use aided communication	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
Code-switching using aided AAC: toward an integrated theoretical framework	5
Frequency of word usage by Hebrew preschoolers: implications for AAC core vocabulary	4
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	4
A Systematic review of AAC interventions using speech generating devices for autistic preschoolers	4
Development of an Arabic core vocabulary list for children utilizing augmentative and alternative communication	4
Using occupational therapy principles and practice to support independent message generation by individuals using AAC instead of facilitated communication	4
The development of synthetic child speech in three South African languages	4
Still having his say: David Yoder’s legacy in AAC	4
The prevalence of relational basic concepts on core vocabulary lists for AAC: is frequency enough?	4