Holyfield, C., Light, J., McNaughton, D., Caron, J., Drager, K., Pope, L. (2018, July). Effect of VSDs with dynamic text in social interactions on single word reading in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Poster presented at the State of the Science Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC), Arlington, Va.
- Unfortunately, many adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have limited speech do not have functional literacy skills and are often limited in their access to appropriate literacy instruction.
- Therefore, supports that supplement traditional instruction might be beneficial to these individuals.
- AAC technologies designed to promote literacy learning may be one supplemental support option.
This study investigated the effects of a VSD app with the Transition to literacy (T2L) feature used during social interactions on the single-word reading performance of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, limited speech, and early literacy profiles.
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