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Christine Holyfield Data-verified
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Associate Professor
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15 h-index
50 pubs
708 cited
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Biography and Research Information
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Christine Holyfield's research focuses on the development and investigation of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies, particularly for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome. Her work examines how different AAC modalities, including mobile speech-generating devices and picture symbol systems, impact communication skills, decoding and encoding abilities, and indices of happiness.
Holyfield has received significant federal funding, including a $749,960 NSF Convergence Accelerator grant for research into next-generation AI-powered AAC technology. Her publications include systematic reviews on evidence-based instruction and comparisons of mobile technology AAC with other modes for individuals with autism. She has also explored the integration of familiar listeners and speech recognition technologies into AAC interventions for adults with Down syndrome, and the effects of high-tech versus low-tech AAC on school-aged children with multiple disabilities.
Her scholarly output includes 49 publications with 685 citations and an h-index of 15. Holyfield actively collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Elizabeth R. Lorah and Nicolette Caldwell, with whom she has co-authored numerous publications. She maintains an active lab website detailing her research activities.
Metrics
- h-index: 15
- Publications: 50
- Citations: 708
Selected Publications
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A Comparison of Visual Scene and Grid Displays during a Naturally Occurring Song Routine (2026)
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An Examination of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Response Options for Academic Communication From Autistic Children (2026)
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Helping or Homogenizing? GenAI as a Design Partner to Pre-Service SLPs for Just-in-Time Programming of AAC (2025)
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“It's a Lot of Collaboration”: Related Service Providers Supporting Literacy Instruction for Learners Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (2025)
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Effect of AAC intervention on communication within social routines from preschool-age emerging symbolic communicators with developmental disabilities (2025)
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Future of AAC technologies: priorities for inclusive innovation (2025)
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External challenges for individuals who need or use AAC who are learning language: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions (2025)
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Overcoming barriers to literacy for individuals who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions (2025)
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Effect of AAC technology with embedded literacy supports on the participation of children who are emerging symbolic communicators during shared reading (2025)
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Effect of explicit literacy instruction on letter-sound correspondence acquisition for a child with cerebral palsy who uses AAC eye gaze (2025)
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The feasibility of just-in-time programming of visual scene displays on mobile technology in AAC intervention for adult beginning communicators (2025)
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Exploring Engagement Opportunities for Autistic Children: Using AAC as a Controller in a Wizard-of-Oz Coloring Game (2025)
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Accessible Literacy for Emerging Communicators: A Proposed Model and Case Application With Children on the Autism Spectrum (2024)
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Preliminary Investigation of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Just-in-Time Cloze Phrase Response Options for Social Participation from Children on the Autism Spectrum (2024)
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Predictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays (2024)
Federal Grants 1 $749,960 total
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Elizabeth R. Lorah
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
18 shared publications
In database
- A Systematic Review of Research Comparing Mobile Technology Speech-Generating Devices to Other AAC Modes with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- A Systematic Review of Evidence-based Instruction for Individuals with Autism Using Mobile Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology
- Effects of High-tech Versus Low-tech AAC on Indices of Happiness for School-aged Children with Multiple Disabilities
- Leveraging Communication Partner Speech to Automate Augmented Input for Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal: Prototype Development and Preliminary Efficacy Investigation
- Typical preschoolers’ perceptions of augmentative and alternative communication modes of a preschooler with autism spectrum disorder
Showing 5 of 18 shared publications
Nicolette Caldwell
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
10 shared publications
In database
- A Systematic Review of Evidence-based Instruction for Individuals with Autism Using Mobile Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology
- Leveraging Communication Partner Speech to Automate Augmented Input for Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal: Prototype Development and Preliminary Efficacy Investigation
- Effects of Interaction Approaches and Added High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication on Prelinguistic and Linguistic Communication from School-Age Beginning Communicators
- Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum
- Spurring Innovation in AAC Technology through Collaborative Dreaming and Needs Finding with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Who Use AAC
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
Stephen MacNeil
Temple University (US)
10 shared publications
- Leveraging Communication Partner Speech to Automate Augmented Input for Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal: Prototype Development and Preliminary Efficacy Investigation
- Spurring Innovation in AAC Technology through Collaborative Dreaming and Needs Finding with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Who Use AAC
- Exploring the use of Generative AI to Support Automated Just-in-Time Programming for Visual Scene Displays
- Preliminary Investigation of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Just-in-Time Cloze Phrase Response Options for Social Participation from Children on the Autism Spectrum
- Predictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
Brenna Griffen
Louisiana State University in Shreveport (US)
6 shared publications
- Increasing linguistic and prelinguistic communication for social closeness during naturalistic AAC instruction with young children on the autism spectrum
- Preliminary Investigation of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Just-in-Time Cloze Phrase Response Options for Social Participation from Children on the Autism Spectrum
- Effects of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention on School Readiness Skills from Young Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Evaluating Artificial Intelligence on the Efficacy of Preference Assessments for Preservice Speech-Language Pathologists
- Effect of AAC intervention on communication within social routines from preschool-age emerging symbolic communicators with developmental disabilities
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Janice Light
Pennsylvania State University (US)
5 shared publications
- Effects of an AAC feature on decoding and encoding skills of adults with Down syndrome
- Effects of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology Decoding Feature on Single-Word Reading by Individuals With Down Syndrome and Limited Functional Speech
- Overcoming barriers to literacy for individuals who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions
- External challenges for individuals who need or use AAC who are learning language: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions
- Effect of AAC technology with embedded literacy supports on the participation of children who are emerging symbolic communicators during shared reading
Cynthia Zastudil
Temple University (US)
5 shared publications
- Exploring the use of Generative AI to Support Automated Just-in-Time Programming for Visual Scene Displays
- Predictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays
- Exploring the use of Generative AI to Support Automated Just-in-Time Programming for Visual Scene Displays
- Predictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays
- Helping or Homogenizing? GenAI as a Design Partner to Pre-Service SLPs for Just-in-Time Programming of AAC
Tara O’Neill Zimmerman
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
4 shared publications
- Leveraging Communication Partner Speech to Automate Augmented Input for Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal: Prototype Development and Preliminary Efficacy Investigation
- Effects of Interaction Approaches and Added High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication on Prelinguistic and Linguistic Communication from School-Age Beginning Communicators
- A Scoping Review of Research Evaluating Physiological Information for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Research Considerations
- Preliminary Investigation of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Just-in-Time Cloze Phrase Response Options for Social Participation from Children on the Autism Spectrum
Jessica Caron
Pennsylvania State University (US)
4 shared publications
- Effect of Low-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention on Intentional Triadic Gaze as Alternative Access by School-Age Children With Multiple Disabilities
- Effect of explicit literacy instruction on letter-sound correspondence acquisition for a child with cerebral palsy who uses AAC eye gaze
- “It's a Lot of Collaboration”: Related Service Providers Supporting Literacy Instruction for Learners Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Effect of AAC intervention on communication within social routines from preschool-age emerging symbolic communicators with developmental disabilities
Slobodan Vučetić
Temple University (US)
4 shared publications
- Leveraging Communication Partner Speech to Automate Augmented Input for Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal: Prototype Development and Preliminary Efficacy Investigation
- Spurring Innovation in AAC Technology through Collaborative Dreaming and Needs Finding with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Who Use AAC
- Preliminary Investigation of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Just-in-Time Cloze Phrase Response Options for Social Participation from Children on the Autism Spectrum
- Exploring Engagement Opportunities for Autistic Children: Using AAC as a Controller in a Wizard-of-Oz Coloring Game
Lauramarie Pope
Auburn University (US)
3 shared publications
- Effects of an AAC feature on decoding and encoding skills of adults with Down syndrome
- Effects of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology Decoding Feature on Single-Word Reading by Individuals With Down Syndrome and Limited Functional Speech
- Effect of AAC technology with embedded literacy supports on the participation of children who are emerging symbolic communicators during shared reading
Erik Jakobs
Pennsylvania State University (US)
3 shared publications
- Effects of an AAC feature on decoding and encoding skills of adults with Down syndrome
- Effects of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology Decoding Feature on Single-Word Reading by Individuals With Down Syndrome and Limited Functional Speech
- Effect of AAC technology with embedded literacy supports on the participation of children who are emerging symbolic communicators during shared reading
David McNaughton
Pennsylvania State University (US)
3 shared publications
- Effects of an AAC feature on decoding and encoding skills of adults with Down syndrome
- Effects of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology Decoding Feature on Single-Word Reading by Individuals With Down Syndrome and Limited Functional Speech
- Overcoming barriers to literacy for individuals who need or use AAC: lived experiences, key research findings, and future directions
Eduard Dragut
Temple University (US)
3 shared publications
- Leveraging Communication Partner Speech to Automate Augmented Input for Children on the Autism Spectrum Who Are Minimally Verbal: Prototype Development and Preliminary Efficacy Investigation
- Spurring Innovation in AAC Technology through Collaborative Dreaming and Needs Finding with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Who Use AAC
- Preliminary Investigation of Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Automated Just-in-Time Cloze Phrase Response Options for Social Participation from Children on the Autism Spectrum
Christine Kapp
Temple University (US)
3 shared publications
- Exploring the use of Generative AI to Support Automated Just-in-Time Programming for Visual Scene Displays
- Exploring the use of Generative AI to Support Automated Just-in-Time Programming for Visual Scene Displays
- Helping or Homogenizing? GenAI as a Design Partner to Pre-Service SLPs for Just-in-Time Programming of AAC
J. A. Smith
Berea College (US)
3 shared publications
- Predictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays
- Predictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays
- Helping or Homogenizing? GenAI as a Design Partner to Pre-Service SLPs for Just-in-Time Programming of AAC
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