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Area of Science:

  • Disability Studies
  • Communication Sciences
  • Social Justice

Background:

  • Many individuals requiring Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) are denied effective language-based tools, leading to illiteracy assumptions, isolation, and violence.
  • Societal biases and discrimination significantly impede the lives of individuals who use AAC, more so than their disabilities.
  • The right to community and communication are intrinsically linked, highlighting the need for inclusive social participation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for fundamental fairness and mitigate compounded biases faced by AAC users.
  • To explore how AAC users can be better heard and integrated into communities.
  • To define communication equity as a societal and legal obligation for universal, lifelong communication access.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of societal and legal obligations concerning communication access.
  • Examination of existing discourse surrounding AAC to identify perpetuation of narrow communication assumptions.
  • Emphasis on the necessity of research grounded in the lived experiences of AAC users.

Main Results:

  • Current practices often deny effective language-based AAC, leading to severe social exclusion.
  • Unchallenged biases are identified as a more crippling factor than disabilities themselves.
  • A significant gap exists in understanding and implementing universal communication access.

Conclusions:

  • Communication equity necessitates a societal and legal obligation for fair, universal, and lifelong access to all communication means.
  • Further research is crucial to challenge assumptions about prescribed communication methods and to understand the lived experiences of AAC users.
  • Collaborative efforts are essential to achieve communication equity for all, not just a select few.