Schedule

Please note that all times listed are local to Toronto (Eastern time), UTC-5.

Opening Ceremonies Cathi Davis, Kevin Williams
09.11.2026 12:00 – 13:00 Zoom Room 5
ISAAC LEAD Committee AAC Town Hall Meeting
09.11.2026 14:00 – 16:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 71 Cultural and linguistic adaptation of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication system for Rioplatense Spanish Agustina Giorgetti, Brenda Belén Martínez Ocampo, Gustavo Gasaneo
10.11.2026 08:00 – 08:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 72 Generative Artificial Intelligence Supporting Functional Communication and Return to Work in a Person With Wernicke’s Aphasia: A Case Study Mariana Mestrinho Ferreira, Marta Gomes Pinto
10.11.2026 08:00 – 08:30 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 7 Training, Collaboration and AAC Interface Modifications for Children with Cortical Visual Impairment: Results of a Survey of the United States Jamie Boster, Julie Potts, Kathryn Brown, Kevin Pitt
10.11.2026 08:00 – 09:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 20 Le cahier de vie comme support aux opportunités intra-familiales de communication : étude de l’impact d’une implémentation protocolisée au sein de familles d’enfant avec polyhandicap. Pauline Collin, Sarah Quéméneur de Kergariou
10.11.2026 08:00 – 08:30 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 24 Same Chance to Communicate Supporting Autistic voices through AAC: An independent evaluation of the AsIAm AAC programme Emma Nolan, Hazel Walsh, Dr. Neil Kenny, Dr. Sylwia Kazmierczak Murray
10.11.2026 08:00 – 09:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 44 Telepractice and AAC parent coaching during Spanish storybook reading Cheri Dodge-Chin, Joseph Swingle, Melissa Hershberger
10.11.2026 08:00 – 09:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 81 Home Shared Reading for Children Who Cannot Rely on Speech in Taiwan: A Mixed-Methods Study Hsiao-Ting Su
10.11.2026 08:30 – 09:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 38 The AAC Learning Center Moodle: A free online educational resource on AAC David McNaughton, Erik Jakobs, Lance McLemore, Tracy Rackensperger
10.11.2026 08:30 – 09:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 39 From Message Composition to Conversation Participation: Bobbai, a Context-Aware AI Speech Application, and Its Implications for Everyday AAC Use Jelmer van der Weide
10.11.2026 08:30 – 09:30 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 58 Systematic Review of Reading Interventions for Adolescents and Adults Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication Jing Tong Ong, Joanna Holzman, Rose Osnaya
10.11.2026 09:00 – 09:30 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 42 AI and Culture in AAC: Opportunities and Challenges for Culturally Responsive Symbol Design Charlie Danger, David Banes, E.A. Draffan
10.11.2026 09:00 – 09:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 53 Increasing research evidence and development of meaningful, intelligible language and use by people with PMLD Beverley Hamilton, Rosemary Woods
10.11.2026 09:30 – 10:30 Zoom Room 5
Session-ID 62 Streamlining Professional Development with Multimedia Resources: Support for Formal and Informal AAC Learning Experiences Using Stepping into AAC Materials Carole Zangari, Michaela Ball, Tabi Jones Wohleber
10.11.2026 09:30 – 10:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 75 HALO: Artificial Intelligence for Dynamic, Context-Responsive AAC Marta Gomes Pinto
10.11.2026 09:30 – 10:30 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 16 AAC at Work: Supporting Secondary School Students with Complex Needs in Early Community Work Experiences Beth Poss, Lauren Fuhr
10.11.2026 09:30 – 10:30 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 22 AAC in Adolescence Kathy Look Howery
10.11.2026 09:30 – 10:30 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 57 Rethinking Mean Length of Utterance for Aided Utterances Brianna Coltellino, Cathy Binger, Jennifer Kent-Walsh, John Heilmann, Nancy Harrington
10.11.2026 10:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 25 School’s out! Are we prepared for everyday life: today, tomorrow and beyond Beth Moulam
10.11.2026 10:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 33 What Parents Say About AAC: South African Parents’ Perceptions of AAC Interventions Amy Chamberlain-Grant, Katherine Smith, Shakila Dada
10.11.2026 10:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 54 Is Modeling Enough? Balancing Implicit and Explicit Instruction in AAC. Euan Robertson, Rachael Langley
10.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 56 PATHS to Reading: Promoting Language and Literacy Learning for Young Students who Use or Need AAC Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Becky Haynes, Elizabeth Biggs, Erin Turner, Kristin Dorris
10.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 60 Building Better Aided Language Measures: Speech-Language Pathologist Perspectives Cathy Binger, Jaime Branaman, Jennifer Kent-Walsh, John Heilmann, Nancy Harrington, Naomi Nattress
10.11.2026 11:00 – 11:30 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 76 Dynamic Assessment of Learning Factors: A Collaborative AAC Framework to Support Communication, Participation, and Learning Kathy Look Howery, Linda Burkhart
10.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 5
Session-ID 34 AAC Without Borders: Practical Strategies for Supporting Communication Across Cultures, Languages, and Resource Contexts Heather Prenovost, Jenny Lawrence
10.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 18 A culturally adapted communication partner intervention for educators in South Africa Sarah Douglas
10.11.2026 11:30 – 12:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 29 Beyond the Device: Navigating AAC in Everyday Life as a User, Tester, and Advocate Esther Klang
10.11.2026 12:00 – 12:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 52 Speech-generating devices for children with complex communication needs: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Amanda Brignell, Angela Morgan, Halianna Van Niel, Martin Downes, Shui Wong
10.11.2026 20:00 – 20:20 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 64 Teaching with AAC: Embedding Communication, Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum Amanda Hartmann, Emily Seoud, Lachlan Munn
10.11.2026 20:00 – 21:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 12 Advancing AAC Through Artificial Intelligence: Developing Context-Aware Communication Tools for Neurodivergent Individuals Ayana Singh
10.11.2026 20:00 – 21:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 45 Understanding proxemics in multimodal child-clinician interactions: a case of Sturge-Weber Syndrome Judith Oxley, Xueao Cao
10.11.2026 20:00 – 20:30 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 67 Finding My Voice Through Humor: Creating the “Murder of Words on AAC” Podcast Chelsea Hagen
10.11.2026 21:00 – 21:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 50 Cancelled – The Enhancing Peer Networks Project: Fostering Peer Relationships for Children Who Use or Need AAC Elizabeth Biggs, Erin Turner
10.11.2026 21:30 – 22:30
Session-ID 59 Supporting Symbolic Communication through Naturalistic Visually Adapted AAC Intervention Allison Nannemann, Cathy Binger, Cindy Gevarter, Naomi Nattress, Natalie Douglas
10.11.2026 21:30 – 22:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 83 Introduction to the ISAAC Leadership Committee (“LEAD”) and Overview of Leadership Opportunities for AAC Communicators in ISAAC and its Chapters Chelsea Hagen, Grant Blasko, Jamie Preece, Kevin Williams, Lateef McLeod, Marcia Gemler, Patrick Regan
10.11.2026 21:30 – 23:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 51 AIM for Writing: Access, Instruction, and Meaningful Writing Opportunities Janet McLellan
10.11.2026 22:00 – 23:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 19 Words Across Languages: Core Vocabulary Research, Culturally Responsive Practice, and International Student Learning in AAC Gat Savaldi Harussi, Jens Boenisch
10.11.2026 22:00 – 23:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 40 What makes an AAC system robust?: Pediatric speech-language pathologists’ opinions Audrey McMillion
10.11.2026 22:30 – 23:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 61 PODD as an AAC Option for Aphasia Patients Eve Knight, Justine Springs, Vicki Haddix
10.11.2026 23:00 – 23:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 63 AI-Based AAC with Next-Word Suggestions and Multi-Word Sentence Completion Using Personal Data and Context Byeong Joon Cho, Kang Hee Kim, Soo-Young Lee
10.11.2026 23:00 – 23:30 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 31 Cultural and linguistic adaptations in AAC interventions: A scoping review Adele May, Chane Naidoo, James Lee, Sarah Douglas, Shakila Dada
10.11.2026 23:00 – 23:30 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 5 Family Camp as a Naturalistic AAC Intervention Model: Outcomes for Minimally Speaking Autistic Adults and Graduate SLP Students Jae Handler, Kimberly Ho, Sara Young
10.11.2026 23:30 – 00:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 10 When AAC Users Stay Invisible: Bridging Confidence Gaps in Everyday Communication Sheena Yap Chan
10.11.2026 23:30 – 00:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 8 Strength in Connections: Building A Collaborative AAC Community Ann Marie Polovick, Kathryn Brown, Kelly Wallace
11.11.2026 08:00 – 09:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 26 Humans are hardwired for connection and belonging: AAC users don’t choose to have poor mental wellbeing Beth Moulam
11.11.2026 08:00 – 09:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 41 The Future Starts Now: Strategic Planning for the Development of a Comprehensive School-Based AAC Program Melissa Friscia
11.11.2026 08:00 – 09:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 43 Using the INSTRUCT App to Teach Communication Partners to Interact Effectively with Individuals Who Use AAC David McNaughton, Dawn Sowers, Erik Jakobs, Holly Panfil, Janice Light, Kelsey Steffen, Kristina Exton, Savanna Brittlebank, Tara McCarty
11.11.2026 08:00 – 09:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 69 The Impact of AAC on Communication Skills and Quality of Life Among Autistic Children: A Quasi-Experimental Study from Georgia Elene Tskrialashvili, Mariam Gelashvili
11.11.2026 09:00 – 09:30 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 32 The involvement of children with communication disabilities in research: A scoping review Adele May, Shakila Dada, Verusha Mudaly
11.11.2026 09:00 – 09:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 35 A 10-Week Systematic Comparison of Three Aided Language Applications for Supporting Vietnamese-English Vocabulary Development: A Descriptive Case Study Jessica Tran, Lisa Erwin-Davidson
11.11.2026 09:00 – 09:30 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 37 Capturing and Creating Visual Supports Together: Using a Participatory Action Framework with an Adolescent AAC User in Community Recreation Andrew Mutolo, David Hajjar
11.11.2026 09:00 – 09:30 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 68 Empowering Partners: Cascading Coaching to Enhance Caregiver Use of AAC-Embedded NDBI Strategies Cathy Binger, Ciara Ousley, Cindy Gevarter, Jaime Branaman
11.11.2026 09:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 80 Beyond the SGD: Sisters Co-constructing Meaning with Unaided AAC Karen Erickson, Suzanne Feinstein
11.11.2026 09:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 9 Comunicação Aumentativa e Alternativa na Educação Infantil: Promovendo a Comunicação Funcional em Crianças com TEA Não Verbais Nelma Montemor, Rosangela Trabuco Malvestio da Silva
11.11.2026 09:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 11 An aided language modeling intervention to support SLPs and caregivers Sarah Douglas
11.11.2026 09:30 – 10:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 15 Navigating High-Tech AAC: The Accessibility of Toddlers’ First Words on Widely Used Speech-Generating Device Systems Ashleigh Hayward
11.11.2026 09:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 27 Listen, Look, Link: Adapting AAC for Children with Hearing Loss Collin Shield, Lauren Yoshihiro
11.11.2026 09:30 – 10:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 47 Engineering Digital Equity: Free, Input-Agnostic AAC for Everyday Life Cliff Kushler, Kirk Skye
11.11.2026 09:30 – 10:30 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 70 Infusing T2L Literacy Supports into AAC for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities with Different Needs and Skills Beth Frick Semmler, Christine Holyfield, Erik Jakobs, Janice Light, Jessica Caron, Lauramarie Pope, Savanna Brittlebank, Susannah Boyle
11.11.2026 10:00 – 11:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 88 Work Smarter, Not Harder: Timesaving AAC Tools & Strategies That Make a Difference Jon Karbo, Joni Nygard
11.11.2026 10:00 – 11:00 Zoom Room 5
Session-ID 21 Determining and validating fringe vocabulary categories and items appropriate for children who require AAC from a Sepedi language background Keamogetswe Makena, Kerstin Tönsing, Ngwanamashiane Mothapo
11.11.2026 10:00 – 10:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 74 Teaching Language Stimulation Strategies to Parents of AAC Users: An Exploratory A-B Single-Case Study Ruth Candela
11.11.2026 10:30 – 11:00 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 66 The AAC Access Gap: Population-Level Evidence of Underutilization of AAC Services Among Children in the United States Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Brianna Coltellino, Michelle Therrien
11.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 78 The Communication Bill of Rights, 3rd Edition: Guidance for Advocacy and Practice to Support Children and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Beth Mineo, Karen Erickson, MaryAnn Romski, Rose Sevcik, YuPing Chen
11.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 6 Let’s Talk About Sex Baby, Let’s Talk About it on AAC Jae Handler
11.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 17 From Gatekeeper to Gate Opener: Using AI to Expand Language, Preserve Authorship, and Support Co-Construction in AAC Brenda Del Monte
11.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 23 Beyond Communication: Rethinking Participation, Identity and Everyday Life Through AAC Alicia Alverson, Amanda Grabiner
11.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 28 Communication Access as Protection: AAC, Safeguarding, and Trauma Nadja Burgio
11.11.2026 11:00 – 11:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 82 Bringing Light to Mental Health Access and Complex Communication: Cross-Continental Perspectives and Strategies for Mental Health Access from PWUAAC and Mental Health Advocates Adrianna Noyes, Emily Cunningham, Heather Banet, Kim Vuong, Luis Carlos Perez Hernandez, Stephanie Fassov, Tori & LeeAnn Erwine
11.11.2026 20:00 – 21:30 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 86 The Importance of Friendships and Social Networks In The AAC Community Cristina Martin-Valero, Drew Boyle, Patrick Regan, Sarah Varon, Thanh Diep
11.11.2026 20:00 – 21:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 46 From Efficacy to Implementation: Video Visual Scene Displays to Support Community Participation and Communication for Adults Who Need AAC Beth Frick Semmler, David McNaughton, Erik Jakobs, Janice Light, Rebecca Stroschein, Rebecca Wood, Sharon Redmon
11.11.2026 20:00 – 21:00 Zoom Room 4
Session-ID 49 Improve Literacy Instruction with Practical Tools and Real-life, Inclusive, and Engaging, Learning Experiences Tina Lorenzana
11.11.2026 20:00 – 21:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 77 Novel Mobile Technologies for Family-implemented Early Language Interventions in Augmentative and Alternative Communication Barbara Weber, Oliver Wendt
11.11.2026 21:30 – 23:00 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 2 Parent and speech pathologists’ expectations and experiences in implementing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in Ghana Clancy Conlon, Karen Wylie, Tanja Effing-Tijdhof
11.11.2026 21:30 – 22:00 Zoom Room 3
Session-ID 14 Literacy for All: Enhancing Science of Reading Instruction for AAC Users Using Free Accessible Tools Kate Ahern
11.11.2026 21:30 – 22:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 87 A Multimodal, On-Device AI System for Real-Time, Context-Aware Vocabulary Suggestion on AAC Displays Rishi Karumanchi, Tanay Vinaykya
11.11.2026 23:00 – 23:30 Zoom Room 1
Session-ID 36 The Interactive Periodic Table of AAC Kate Ahern
11.11.2026 23:00 – 23:30 Zoom Room 2
Session-ID 79 Adaptive Gamified Interface for Identifying Reading Comprehension Barriers in Autism Sreeja Pal
11.11.2026 23:30 – 00:00 Zoom Room 1