John Kim received a Kenneth Fong Translational Research Grant Award

John Kim, a Joint Doctoral Candidate in Special Education, and Alyssa Kubota, an assistant professor in Computer Engineering, received the Kenneth Fong Translational Research Grant Award from San Francisco State University, College of Science and Engineering. Their work is titled "Take a look through my eyes: Integrating lived experiences with aided communication systems to enhance the learning of socio-emotional concepts for nonspeaking children". This investigation observes how nonspeaking students leverage their funds of knowledge to express abstract socio-emotional concepts. Specifically, this project will analyze the display features of socio-emotional concepts, the design of AAC systems for these concepts, and the system implementation with nonspeaking children.