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- Janice_Light abstract "Janice Light, is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The Pennsylvania State University, teaching graduate courses and seminars in augmentative and alternative communication. In addition to being a partner with the current RERC on Communication Enhancement, she has also been the PI of 5 major multi-year funded grants, served on expert panels for NIH and NIDRR, and published over 20 AAC-related articles. Light has received the Journal of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Editor's Award, and ISAAC's Distinguished Lecturer Award; and from Penn State, the Dorothy Jones Barnes Teaching Award for Excellence, Teaching Hall of Fame, and Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award.Her primary interest has been furthering understanding of the development of communicative competence, language, and literacy skills by individuals with complex communication needs who require AAC. Light has been the principal investigator on more than 20 federally-funded research grants to improve outcomes for individuals who use AAC (totaling more than $10 million). She is currently one of the project directors of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (AAC-RERC), a virtual research consortium funded by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. She is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and books, and Light is a co-editor of the AAC Journal with Dr. David McNaughton. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her research and teaching contributions to the field, including the Don Johnston Distinguished Lecturer award from the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, the Dorothy Jones Barnes Outstanding Teaching Award, the Penn State Teaching Hall of Fame award, the Helen G. and Evan G. Patishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award, the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award, the Penn State University Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the 2013 President’s Award for Academic Integration.Light has identified four social purposes of communicative interaction in AAC: the expression of needs and wants to a listener, the transfer of information as in more general conversation, the development of social closeness through such things as jokes and cheering, and finally social etiquette practices such as "please" and "thank you". These four purposes vary in terms of the relative importance of the content, rate, duration and the focus of the interaction. It is important that the AAC systems selected also reflect the priorities of the individual and their family.".
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- Janice_Light comment "Janice Light, is a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The Pennsylvania State University, teaching graduate courses and seminars in augmentative and alternative communication. In addition to being a partner with the current RERC on Communication Enhancement, she has also been the PI of 5 major multi-year funded grants, served on expert panels for NIH and NIDRR, and published over 20 AAC-related articles.".
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