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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Engaging stakeholders to improve social validity: intervention priorities for students with complex communication needs	15
An early Spanish vocabulary for children who use AAC: developmental and linguistic considerations	14
Centering the family in their system: a framework to promote family-centered AAC services	12
In search of a novel way to analyze early communicative behavior	11
A survey of school-age children with highly unintelligible speech	10
Review of methods for conducting speech research with minimally verbal individuals with autism spectrum disorder	10
Current preparation status in AAC: perspectives of special education teachers in the United States	10
Using the ImPAACT program with preschoolers with Down syndrome: a hybrid service-delivery model	10
A parent-implemented embedded AAC intervention for teaching navigational requests and other communicative functions to children with Autism spectrum disorder	9
Naturalistic teaching approach to develop spontaneous vocalizations and augmented communication in children with autism spectrum disorder	9
Participant characteristics predicting communication outcomes in AAC implementation for individuals with ASD and IDD: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Code-switching using aided AAC: toward an integrated theoretical framework	8
Augmentative and alternative communication services during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on children, their families and service providers	8
The effects of teacher-delivered behavior skills training on paraeducators' use of a communication intervention for a student with autism who uses AAC	8
Coaching paraeducators to implement functional communication training involving augmentative and alternative communication for students with autism spectrum disorder	7
A scoping review of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)	7
Ensuring communication access for all during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: supporting patients, providers, and caregivers in hospitals	7
Text messaging “Helps Me to Chat”: exploring the interactional aspects of text messaging using mobile phones for youth with complex communication needs	7
Dynamic assessment of augmentative and alternative communication application grid formats and communicative targets for children with autism spectrum disorder	6
Speech-language pathologists’ practices in augmentative and alternative communication during early intervention	6
Barriers and facilitators to accommodations in the workplace for adults who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC): a systematic review	6
Facilitators and barriers to developing romantic and sexual relationships: lived experiences of people with complex communication needs	6
Advances in AAC intervention: some contributions related to applied behavior analysis	6
Typical preschoolers’ perceptions of augmentative and alternative communication modes of a preschooler with autism spectrum disorder	6
Providing visual directives via a smart watch to a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder: an intervention note	6

Parent perspectives on augmentative and alternative communication in Sri Lanka	5
Malaysian speech-language pathology students’ reflections about their participation in an AAC training program	4
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	4
Updated systematic-narrative review on communication intervention in Rett Syndrome: 2010–2022	4
Advances in augmentative and alternative communication research for individuals with Autism spectrum disorder: moving research and practice forward	4
Mental health matters: a pilot study exploring the experiences and perspectives of individuals with complex communication needs	4
A qualitative study exploring the effect of communicating with partially intelligible speech	3
Using key-word signing to support learners in South African schools: a study of teachers’ perceptions	3
Working with children with cortical visual impairment who use augmentative and alternative communication: implications for improving current practice	3
Provision of augmentative and alternative communication interventions to Norwegian preschool children with cerebral palsy: are the right children receiving interventions?	3
AAC barriers and facilitators for children with Koolen de Vries syndrome and childhood apraxia of speech: parent perceptions	3
Prompting for repair as a language teaching strategy for augmentative and alternative communication	3
Effect of online instruction on volunteers who support people with complex communication needs in active recreation	3
Designing augmentative and alternative communication systems with Aboriginal Australians: vocabulary representation, layout, and access	3
Augmentative and alternative communication for Aboriginal Australians: Developing core vocabulary for Yolŋu speakers	3
Relationship between lexicon and grammar in children and youth who use augmentative and alternative communication	3
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	3
Vocabulary in dialogic reading: implications for AAC	2
Teletherapy, AAC & COVID-19: the experiences of speech language pathologists providing teletherapy during a global pandemic	2
Assessing working memory capacity through picture span and feature binding with visual-graphic symbols during a visual search task with typical children and adults	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
The effect of responsiveness to speech-generating device input on spoken language in children with autism spectrum disorder who are minimally verbal^†	2
Effects of adapted Letter-Sound correspondence instruction with older learners with complex communication needs and autism spectrum disorder	2
Development of a Manually Operated Communication System (MOCS) for patients in intensive care units	2
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	2
Using occupational therapy principles and practice to support independent message generation by individuals using AAC instead of facilitated communication	1
Frequency of word usage by Hebrew preschoolers: implications for AAC core vocabulary	1
Speech-language pathologists’ perceptions of augmentative and alternative communication in Thailand	1
Feasibility of an eye-gaze technology intervention for students with severe motor and communication difficulties in Taiwan	1
Is there a ‘universal’ core? Using semantic primes to select vocabulary across languages in AAC	1
Expressive and receptive performance with graphic symbol sentences by individuals who use aided communication	1
“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	1
A scoping review of the playground experiences of children with AAC needs*	1
Something for everybody? Assessing the suitability of AAC systems for children using stated preference methods	1
Effect of partner reauditorization on young adults’ attitudes toward a child who communicated using nonelectronic augmentative and alternative communication	1
Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum	1
Rethinking device abandonment: a capability approach focused model	1
Attitudes toward the use of low-tech AAC in acute settings: a systematized review	1
Emotional availability in mothers and their children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 who require augmentative and alternative communication: a mixed-methods pilot study	1
The effect of cue type on directive-following in children with moderate to severe autism spectrum disorder	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
Common ground in AAC: how children who use AAC and teaching staff shape interaction in the multimodal classroom	1
Core vocabulary for AAC practice from Mandarin Chinese-speaking Taiwanese without disabilities	1
The BCH message banking process, voice banking, and double-dipping	1
Parental perceptions of social life before and after attending a parent training program for children with complex communication needs: the ComAlong example	1