Janice Light, Ph.D. holds the Hintz Family Endowed Chair at Penn State University. She is actively involved in research, teaching, service, and outreach to enhance the communicative competence of individuals who require AAC. She is currently the principal investigator of the federally-funded Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on AAC and is also the project director of a federally funded doctoral training grant in AAC. She is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers.

Disclosures:

Financial:

This research was supported by grants #90RE5017 and #90REGE0014 from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the RERC on AAC.

Nonfinancial:

Janice Light has no nonfinancial disclosures to report.