Beth Mineo's Program Description

Picture It: The Power of Visually-based Language Representation: We can’t escape pictures—and the messages they’ve been designed to convey—in our daily lives. Although we commonly regard pictures as simple and straightforward representations of the world around us, and often use icons as the basis of communication systems, our clients—even those with intact vision, cognition, and language—may be challenged by some types of picture-based language systems. At the same time, there is emerging evidence that technology-enabled visual representations can be incredibly powerful vehicles for facilitating language learning and use. This presentation will sensitize attendees to a variety of picture access issues. It will review emerging evidence from a number of domains, and explore the impact of features such as color, fidelity, and animation on understanding and use of pictured information.

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