ReviewAugmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)2025
AAC and technology: what's communication equity got to do with it?
Review in Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Dismantling societal barriers that limit people who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) · 2025Review
- External challenges for individuals who need or use AAC who are learning language: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) · 2025Review
- Supporting meaningful participation in society by adults with developmental disabilities who need and use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) · 2025Review
- Unveiling underlying systemic isolation challenges for AAC users.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) · 2025Review
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
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. True community is not a dot on a map. It is a way of belonging. The right to community and communication are symbiotic. While our disabilities modify the ways we live, unchallenged biases cripple our lives far more. Communication equity boils down to the societal and legal obligation to ensure that all people have fair and universal, lifelong access to all means of communication. Research is required to determine whether the way we talk about AAC perpetuates the erroneous assumption that people should express themselves and be understood in one prescribed way only. To move toward communication equity, we need research grounded in the lived experiences of those who need or use AAC. We need to work together to bring about communication equity, not for the privileged few, but for all.
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