Pancho Ramirez (2025) describes his evolving use of AAC, including laser pointers, an air mouse, and his participation in clinical trials with a brain computer interface. He emphasizes the importance of supporting communication with family members (in multiple languages!), and his strategies for active community participation.
Now free at the AAC journal
https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2513902
Kevin Williams and Christine Holyfield (2025) describe the importance of AAC innovations that incorporate “intuitiveness, feasibility, sustainability, solutions for those who currently benefit the least from existing technologies, affordability, and parallel advocacy work for expanded AAC funding”
Now free at the AAC journal
https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2513906
A call for meaningful inclusion for AAC users, by Grant Blasko, Janice Light, David McNaughton, Bob Williams, and Jordyn Zimmerman, now published.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2514748
Ren Koloni describes how despite advances in the field of AAC, “the vast majority of people who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood still lack meaningful access to effective communication that meets their physical, emotional, social, and cultural needs, and fulfills the civil and human rights to which they are entitled.”
Now free at the AAC journal
https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2515283
Jordyn Zimmerman is a nonspeaking autistic person who was segregated and denied access to effective augmentative communication until she was 18. In her paper, Beyond Access: the Intersecting Role of AAC, Literacy, and Technology, she calls for “a more user-centered design approach across the board—where AAC users are not merely participants, but leaders in the design and development process, ensuring this work is reflective of people’s needs and serves to meaningfully include in our increasingly digital world.”
Now free at the AAC journal at https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2504499