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Alyssa Hillary Zisk
Dr. Zisk is an AAC researcher and an Autistic part-time AAC user. Some of their research (e.g. AAC for speaking autistic people) has to do with their own AAC use and needs, while other parts of their research do not (e.g. working with anonymous language use data at AssistiveWare). Dr. Zisk completed their Ph.D. in May 2021, working on brain computer interfaces for people with ALS. They are also one of the moderators of the Facebook group, “Ask Me, I’m an AAC User.”
Disclosures:
Financial:
Dr. Zisk is paid by AssistiveWare as their AAC research team lead to do AAC research and give presentations, including on this topic. Dr. Zisk has separately received speaker fees to present on this and other topics.
Nonfinanicial:
Dr. Zisk is on the editorial board for Ought: The journal of autistic culture, the admin team for “Ask Me, I’m an AAC User”, and the advisory council of CommunicationFIRST.
Speaker Events
October 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Speech.exe has failed to load: when speech isn’t enough for true communication
Session ID: 1014 Objectives: 1. Define the terms intermittent, unreliable, insufficient, and expensive speech and distinguish between them. 2. Describe examples of how intermittent, unreliable, insufficient, and expensive speech […]
October 29 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
Supporting Gestalt Language Processors to Keep Scripting
Session ID: 1015 Objectives: 1. Explain the benefits of supporting gestalt language processors to continue scripting. 2. Describe three of ways in which AAC can support gestalt language processors. […]