Communication Matters Conference

Description

Research Matters Workshop

This workshop is for AAC users and others to come along and see how easy and interesting it is to
be involved with research. Researchers don’t always know where they are going and need people
who are and interested in their work to guide them. As an AAC user you don’t need to know
anything about research to be a valuable participant and help create the future of AAC.
Recently, the Research Matters group was set up. This is hosted by Communication Matters with
the goal of supporting the charity’s strategic objective to “support productive research connections”.

The aims of this group are:

To raise awareness about research with the AAC community, including knowledge of best
practise.
To connect people who are interested in research with one another to support research with
the AAC community
Provide an opportunity to share research with both the AAC community and the wider
research community.

Membership is open to anybody who has an interest in AAC research. Members include AAC users,
researchers, technologists, speech therapists and other interested people. Research Matters has four
meetings a year. The group has identified the need for creating resources to enable researchers to be
involved with AAC research e.g. resources to help with obtaining ethical approval prior to
conducting research.
The aim of holding a workshop at the Communication Matters conference is to invite anyone who is
interested in the future of AAC research to join us at an interactive workshop. This workshop will
explore how to build better relationships between the AAC community and researchers. We will use
the feedback from this workshop to:
•Develop ideas for research projects.
•Identify what Research Matters can do to connect people to research and opportunities
•Build connections with people interested in research.

Period	9/09/2025
Event type	Conference
Location	Leeds, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International