In this blog post, we share the results of a 2012 exploratory survey we conducted together with professors from the University of San Diego and the California State University at San Marcos.
Autism Acceptance Month challenges us to examine how we teach autonomy and privacy to people learning to use AAC. Alyssa Hillary is an Autistic graduate student in neuroscience, where they do AAC-related research. Their perspective on privacy and autonomy was so powerful that it needed its own blog, which they tell about in their own words here.
Proloquo2Go and Proloquo4Text user Derek Burrow talks about his love for roleplaying games. He explains why they’re a perfect method to teach social and communication skills, all with the help of AAC!
If we believe that accessibility is important and we should be implementing it, why don’t we already consistently and thoroughly account for disability in design? Is it just a knowledge gap, or is there more at work?
