Recent presentations

Brady N., Fleming, K., Swinburne Romine, R., Kasari C., and Holbrook, A.; Beyond Rates of Communication (PDF), presented at the 2017 Gatlinburg Conference, March, 2017.

Brady, N., Bourque, K., Fleming, K.; Measuring Treatment Change with the Communication Complexity Scale (PDF), presented at the 2016 ASHA Convention; November, 2016.

Brady, N., Holbrook, A., Tu, N., Swinburne Romine, R., Fleming, K., and Kasari, C.; The CCS: Sensitivity to intervention effects., Paper presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, San Diego, CA; 2016.

Brady, N., Fleming, K., Krueger, B., Salley, B., Swinburne Romine, R., & Kasari, C.; Formative assessment of the Communication Complexity Scale (CCS)., Presentation at the 48th Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, New Orleans, LA; 2015.

Related News & Articles

2016 IES Grant: Measuring Early Communication Development in Children with ASD.

Barker, R. M., Ataba, S., Brady, N. and Thiemann-Bourque, K.; Support for AAC Use in Preschool, and Growth in Language Skills, for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities,
Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 29:4, December 30, 2013

Kasari, C., Brady, N., Lord, C., Tager-Flusberg, H.; Assessing the Minimally Verbal School-Aged Child With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Research, October 29, 2013

Brady, N. C., Fleming, K., Thiemann-Bourque, K., Olswang, L., Dowden, P., Saunders, M. D., & Marquis, J.; Development of the Communication Complexity Scale
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21, 16-28, Feb. 2012.

Brady, N., Herynk, J. & Fleming, K.; Communication input matters: Lessons from prelinguistic children learning to use AAC in preschool environments,
Early childhood Services, 4, 141-154, Sept. 4, 2010

$1.7M granted for unique communication measure of people with severe disabilities
The University of Kansas news release about this grant project.

Study of nonverbal autism must go beyond words, experts say
Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) article.

Predicting Language Outcomes for Children Learning Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Child and Environmental Factors
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol.56 1595-1612, October 2013.

KU Lawrence IRB # 20790 | Approval Period 5/10/2016 – 5/24/2017