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Research & Abstracts
Key Resources For Research & Abstracts
Autism Research 2025 - Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People
Vikram K. Jaswal, Barry M. Prizant, Morgan D. Barense, Kristie Patten, & Gary StobbeRead the ResearchWhy I Invited a Commentary on “Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People”
David G. AmaraRead the ArticleState of VT Right to Communication Resolution 2026
United for Communication Choice (UCC) - Research Compilation (good place to start!)
UCC - A Selection of Peer-Reviewed Publications Supporting the Use of FC and RPM
UCC - U.S. Law On Communication Access and Choice
Rebuttal to ASHA - Quick Facts About Communication Choice And Why the ASHA Statements are Both Dangerous and Flawed
Rebuttal to ASHA 2025 - Public Letter to ASHA on Spelling Methodologies to support Minimally Speaking People
Touch Does Not Disqualify Nonspeakers’ Communication
David Kaufer, 2026Read the ArticleRebuttal to ASHA 2018 - Ethical Violations in Study Relied Upon by ASHA Committee
Rebuttal to ASHA 2018 - UCC, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, The ARC, TASH, The National Disability Rights Network, and more urge ASHA to withdraw position statements
Occupational Therapy Journal of Research 2025 - Ethnographic Perspectives of Unreliable, Minimal and Non-Speaking Autism Associated With Apraxia
John Damiao, Galilee Damiao, Jonathan Polanco, Maudey Lockwood, & Jake QuinnRead the ResearchFrontiers - Autism: The Movement Perspective (300 pages of peer reviewed journal research articles)
Frontiers 2022 - Perspective: Presuming Autistic Communication Competence and Reframing Facilitated Communication
Melanie Heyworth, Timothy Chan, & Wenn LawsonRead the LetterDisabilities Study Quarterly 2020 - The Voices of Typers: Examining the Educational Experiences of Individuals Who Use Facilitated Communication
Aja McKee & Audri Sandoval GomezRead the ArticleScientific Reports 2020 - Eye-tracking reveals agency in assisted autistic communication
Vikram K. Jaswal, Allison Wayne & Hudson GolinoRead the ResearchLiteracy in nonspeaking autistic people
Vikram K Jaswal, Andrew J Lampi, and Kayden M StockwellRead the Research‘Wishing to go it alone’: the complicated interplay of independence, interdependence and agency
Christine Ashby, Eunyoung Jung, Casey Woodfield, Katherine Vroman & Fernanda OrsatiRead the Research
Additional Resources For Research & Abstracts
American Journal of Occupational Therapy: Finding Our Strengths: Recognizing Professional Bias and Interrogating Systems.
Kristie K. PattenRead the ResearchAutism: The movement (sensing) perspective a decade later.
Torres, E. B., Travers, B. G., Delafield-Butt, J. T., & Srinivasan, A. (2025, June 18)Read the ResearchA back door approach to autism and AAC. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 24, 220-234
Mirenda, P. (2008)Read the ResearchConstructing competence: Autism, voice and the ‘disordered’ body. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 10(2-3), 169-188.
Biklen, D. & Kliewer, C. (2006)Read the ResearchGrammar and lexicon in individuals with autism: A quantitative analysis of a large Italian corpus. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 47, 373-385.
Tuzzi, A. (2009)Read the ResearchHidden Communicative Competence: Case Study Evidence Using Eye-Tracking and Video Analysis; Autism, 16,75-86.
Grayson, Emerson, Howard-Jones, O'NeilRead the ResearchHoping for greatness: Exploring the notion of "movicity" in communication support partnerships
Woodfield, C Jung, E & Ashby, C (2015)Read the Research“I am thinking that speech is asinine”: Narrating complexities and rethinking the notion of “independence” in communication. Equity & Excellence in Education, 39(2), 176-186.
Broderick, A. & Kasa-Hendrickson, C. (2006)Read the Research“I like others to not try to fix me”: Recognizing and supporting the agency of individuals with developmental disabilities. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 46(5), 364-375.
Rossetti, Z., Arndt, K., Ashby, C., Chadwick, M., & Kasahara, M. (2008)Read the ResearchIndependence, participation, and the meaning of intellectual ability. Disability and Society, 16, 415-429.
Rubin, S., Biklen, D., Kasa-Hendrickson, C., Kluth, P., Cardinal, D.N., & Broderick, A. (2001)Read the Research“Moved deeply I am” Autistic language in texts produced with FC. Journees internationals d’Analyse statistique des Donnees Textuelles, 7, 1-9.
Tuzzi, A., Cemin, M. & Castagna, M. (2004)Read the ResearchMoving quietly through the door of opportunity: Perspectives of college students who type to communicate.
Ashby, C.E. & Causton-Theoharis, J. (2012)Read the ResearchParent Perspectives on Assisted Communication
John and Galilee Damiao, et alRead the ResearchPresuming competence. Equity and Excellence in Education, 39(2), 166-175.
Biklen D., & Burke J (2007)Read the Research“Say Just One Word at First”: The Emergence of Reliable Speech in a Student Labeled with Autism. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 21(1), 13-24.
Broderick, Alice, & Kasa-Hendrickson, C., (2001)Read the ResearchSorting our speech: Understanding multiple methods of communication for persons with autism and other developmental disabilities, Journal of Developmental Processes, 4(2), 116-133
Kasa-Hendrickson, C., Broderick, A., & Hanson, D. (2009)Read the ResearchThe right path of equality: supporting high school students with autism who type to communicate
Ashby, C.E. & Causton-Theoharis, J. (2015)Read the ResearchThinking Person’s Guide to Autism; Interview regarding eye-tracking study in 2020, demonstrating communicative agency in a group of nonspeaking autistic letterboard users.
Jaswal, Vikram (The Jaswal Lab at the University of Virginia)Read the ResearchWishing to go it alone: The complicated interplay of independence, interdependence and agency
Ashby, C, Jung, E, Woodfield C, Vroman, K & Orsati, F. (2015)Read the Research
