Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Iconic language design for people with significant speech and multiple impairments

  P. L. Albacete, S.-K. Chang, G. Polese, B. Baker (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper presents a formal methodology for designing iconic languages used in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for people with significant speech and multiple impairments (SSMI). The authors build on the Minspeak system, con…

  • AAC
  • iconic language
  • semantic compaction
  • Minspeak
  • speech impairment
  • multiple impairments
  • augmentative communication
  • symbol-based communication
  • icon algebra
  • conceptual dependency
  • visual language
  • Blissymbols
  • language design