(PLEASE NOTE: Recruitment for the 2017-2022 project is now complete. Please see information for the 2022-2027 project)
The AAC Leadership Project (2017-2022) has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education (H325D170024). The grant funds will be used to support doctoral students who are interested in pursuing advanced degrees in the area of AAC.
What is the AAC Leadership Project?
A doctoral fellowship program in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) designed to develop high-quality researchers, teachers, scholars, and future leaders in the field of AAC.
As part of the program, Ph.D. students participate in a comprehensive curriculum addressing issues related to AAC:
- Core courses dedicated to AAC, including advanced topics in AAC, interdisciplinary approaches to evidence-based practice, and diversity and global issues in AAC; Related coursework in statistics, methodology, and elective areas of language, neurology, grant writing, etc.;
- Completion of at least three mentored research projects, structured to result in conference presentations and publications;
- Hands-on lab experiences with state of the art AAC assistive technologies;
- Direct experience with teaching, including classroom teaching and mentorship of research and/or clinical experiences of pre-service students.
Why Penn State?
- The program at Penn State is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the top research programs focused on the needs of children who require AAC;
- The core academic and clinical faculty have more than 60 externally funded grants, over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals, over 500 conference presentations, and extensive experience in evidence based practice in AAC.
- Dr. Janice Light (Principal Investigator), Dr. Jess Caron, Dr. David McNaughton, Dr. Carol Miller, Dr. Diane Williams, and Dr. Krista Wilkinson are devoted to providing instruction and mentored research activities in order to train the next generation of leaders in the field of AAC.
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For more information, please email Dr. Janice Light (JCL4@psu.edu).
For a recruitment flyer, click here.
