Designing a Research Learning Community: AAC Social

Date & Time

Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 2:20 PM PDT  

Location

Platinum 1  

Description

This research project chronicles the co-design and implementation of an assistive technology research community using the Photovoice methodology. This community-based participatory action research project inquires about the perspectives and findings related to AAC intervention, including AAC mentoring, speech prosthetics and AAC social groups. Participants included people learning to use speech prosthetics, family, AAC mentors, graduate students and friends of participants. We used Design Thinking to guide our creation of what would eventually become the AAC Social. Design Thinking is a five-step process: we empathized and focused on the people we wanted to design for; we defined the focus of our project; we brainstormed ideas for what it might look like; and we created and tested a prototype. In each phase of this process, we used the SETT framework to guide our discussion. SETT stands for student, environment, task, and tools, and is a person-centered methodology for determining what support a person will need for a given task in a given environment. We implemented our “AAC Social” group around music, created music with Google’s Chrome Music Lab, made playlists with Spotify, and played real drums. The main results of the photovoice project and final presentation strongly confirmed the need for social support for youth learning to use AAC. The methodology led to an effective way to demonstrate and communicate to third parties what we feel, think, and believe.  

Audience

• K-12 Education
• Entertainment & Recreation
• Research & Development
• Military

Audience Level

Beginning  

Session Summary (Abstract)

This research project chronicles the co-design and implementation of an assistive technology research community using the Photovoice methodology. This community-based participatory action research project focuses on AAC, music and social groups.  

Primary Topic

Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC)  

Secondary Topics

• Design
• Education
• Research

 

Session Type

Journal Track  

Presenter

• Samuel Sennott
  Portland State University

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