Alice taught me things that have helped me be a better parent, a better ally, a better advocate, a better steward of this world, caretaker of other people’s lives, and thus a better human.
This is what we mean about modeling justice with your life. I didn’t know her personally.🕊️
"Communication equity boils down to the societal and legal obligation to ensure that all people have fair and universal, lifelong access to all means of communication.”
“The right to community and communication are symbiotic. While our disabilities modify the ways we live, unchallenged biases cripple our lives far more. "
"We all are a part of the solution, and we need disabled and non-disabled people to commit to the future of our field, and to help us diversify the research workforce with intentionality and inclusion in mind." @ISAAC_AAC@AACjourn@AAHD1
Dr. Anjali Forber-Pratt describes how her experiences and academic work have shaped her belief in the importance of disability inclusion and representation in research.
Now free at the AAC journal #openaccessdoi.org/10.1080/074346…@communication1st
#openaccess Gormley et al. (2023). Supporting children’s communication of choices ... Effects of a mobile training for health care providers. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(2), 545–564. doi.org/10.1044/2022_A…#aac
Now #OpenAccess at the AAC journal, Brittlebank et al. (2024). A scoping review of AAC interventions for children and young adults with simultaneous visual and motor impairments Augmentative and Alternative Communication doi.org/10.1080/074346…