Dismantling societal barriers that limit people who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Society generally, and communication partners specifically, wield substantial power in determining access to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools and controlling the opportunities for participation afforded to people who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood. This paper integrates the lived experiences of people who need or use AAC with key research findings related to policy, practice, technology, attitude, knowledge, and skill barriers in society that limit people who need or use AAC. Future research and technology development is urgently required to dismantle societal barriers to ensure access to AAC and meaningful opportunities to participate in all aspects of society - education, employment, healthcare, leisure, family, and community.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it