Literature Reviews

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

• Lost in Translation: Understanding Autistic-Neurotypical Communication Style Differences in Job Postings

  Huining Feng, Zinat Ara, Andrew Hundt, Slobodan Vucetic, John Joon Young Chung, Sungsoo Ray Hong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper investigates a concrete and consequential site of autistic-neurotypical (NT) communication mismatch: the written job posting. Autistic adults face an approximately 85% unemployment or underemployment rate (compared to 4% in the ge…

  • autism
  • autistic communication
  • communication style differences
  • autistic employment
  • double empathy problem
  • pragmatic language
  • workplace accessibility
  • natural language processing
  • large language models
  • data annotation
  • disability justice

• Toward the Use of Speech and Natural Language Technology in Intervention for a Language-Disordered Population

  Jill Fain Lehman (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper from Carnegie Mellon University describes the design of Simone Says, an interactive software environment for language remediation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The system brings together speech recognition, natural langu…

  • autism spectrum disorder
  • language remediation
  • speech recognition
  • natural language processing
  • computer-aided instruction
  • language development
  • pragmatic language
  • theory of mind
  • assistive technology