Special congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Thistle who graduated August, 2014 (pictured alongside Dr. Krista Wilkinson).
Dr. Thistle was a doctoral student in Communication Sciences and Disorders, an active and valued part of the PSU AAC community, and a participant with the AAC Leadership Project. Her research focused on improving AAC interventions across a range of areas; including: exploring careful consideration of design elements, emotional competency, the home-school connection, and supporting how SLPs engage with individuals and their families through active listening.
You can read more about Dr. Thistle’s work through the links below.
– What Decisions Do SLPs Make When Designing Aided AAC Displays? (ISAAC 2014)
– The effects of background color and symbol arrangement as syntactic cues in augmentative and alternative communication (29th annual graduate exhibition, 2014)
– A Survey of SLPs’ Decisions When Designing Aided AAC Displays (ASHA 2013)
– Supporting the Development of Emotional Competencies in Children With Complex Communication Needs (CCN) (ASHA, 2013)
– Research on eye tracking to inform AAC design for individuals with ID (EyeTrackBehavior, 2013)
– Two contexts are better than one: Proposing an integration of family and school contexts for communication interventions. (Interdisciplinary Research Forum and Reception, 2013)
– Eye-Tracking Technology & Cognitive Processing in Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (ASHA 2012)
– The Penn State AAC Leadership Project: Doctoral Training in AAC (ASHA 2012)
– Teaching Active Listening to Pre-service Speech Language Pathologists (ISAAC 2012)
– Working Memory in Select Etiologies: AAC Implications (ISAAC 2012)