Literature Reviews

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

• ASL CLeaR: STEM Education Tools for Deaf Students

  Jeanne Reis, Erin T. Solovey, Jon Henner, Kathleen Johnson, Robert Hoffmeister (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This demonstration paper introduces ASL CLeaR (American Sign Language STEM Concept Learning Resource), a free online educational platform designed to address a critical gap in STEM education for deaf and hard of hearing students. The authors identify…

  • deaf
  • hard of hearing
  • American Sign Language
  • STEM education
  • educational technology
  • bilingual education
  • vocabulary learning
  • visual language

• 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