Janice Light

Janice Light, Ph.D. holds the Hintz Family Endowed Chair at Penn State University. She is involved in research, teaching, and outreach to enhance the communicative competence of individuals who use AAC. She is the principal investigator of the 2020-26 Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on AAC. She is the author of more than 165 peer-reviewed papers and is a former Editor of the journal, Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

ASHA Financial Disclosures:
This research and development project was supported by grant #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 Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (The RERC on AAC). The author has no other financial interests in this research.

ASHA Non-Financial Disclosures:
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