This additional day on 10th September is open to conference delegates and others who are interested in research focused strands delivered by an international cohort of researchers and academics.

You can choose to attend one of two parallel sessions:
1. The Becoming an Aided Communicator (BAC) project team will present on ‘Developing tasks for observing aided language comprehension and production’.
2. Professor Bronwyn Hemsley (Head of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney) and the team from the Department of Computing, School of Science & Engineering at the University of Dundee (Professor Annalu Waller, Dr Tom Griffiths and Rohan Slaughter) will present on AAC and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Session 1: Becoming an Aided Communicator (BAC) – Developing tasks for observing aided language comprehension and production

The content of the Second BAC Project Study Day is based on feedback from participants of the First BAC Project Study Day in 2022. The BAC project investigates aided language skills in children and adolescents who have aided language as their main language mode. It focuses on development and use of the aided language task used in the BAC Study and the practical implications of the project results. All comprehension and production tasks will be presented together with the BAC group’s theoretical and practical discussions when developing the tasks. The Study Day presents information about the aspects of aided language development and competence that the tasks were designed to assess, experiences with administration of the tasks, and project results. The graphic materials, the presentations and the discussions and reflections from the study day will be collected in a booklet that will be available to the attendees.

There is a special open access article in the AAC Journal written by the BAC team which is available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/iaac20/34/1.

Further details on the First BAC Project Study Day in 2022, along with a booklet for sale, can be found on our Study Day page.

Session 2: AAC and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Professor Bronwyn Hemsley (Head of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney) and the team from the Department of Computing, School of Science & Engineering at the University of Dundee (Professor Annalu Waller, Dr Tom Griffiths and Rohan Slaughter) will present on AAC and Artificial Intelligence (AI).  More details coming soon!