Dr. Kristien Meuris

Research Interests

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• AAC service delivery, assessment and diagnostics with a special focus on “feature matching”
• Critical skills of AAC users: motor planning, imitation skills, symbolic skills, visual representation, communication functions
• AAC for early communicators, unaided and low-tech AAC
• Critical aspects of AAC technologies: iconicity, vocabulary selection, organization and navigation of AAC interfaces
• Critical elements of AAC instruction: modeling of language and communication, video-based supports

Classes

• Seminar 849814: Preparation and follow-up of the psychodiagnostic internship
• Seminar 350141: Central ideas of politics and education for people with intellectual disabilities: normalization, participation, self-determination, inclusion

Memberships

• American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
• Gesellschaft für Unterstützte Kommunikation e. V. (GesUK)
• International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD)
• International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (isaac)
• Potsdamer Zentrum für empirische Inklusionsforschung (ZEIF)