Alzheimer's Disease
Our work with people with Alzheimer's disease
Between 2002 and 2015, our research focused on Alzheimer's disease. You will find links to that work and resources for families on this page.
For more information, please contact Dr. Melanie Fried-Oken.
Grant abstracts
Below are links to short descriptions of the grants that we worked on in the past.
Publications
Writing papers about our work is an important part of the research process. The papers you will find here have been included in conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals.
- Galvin-McLaughlin D, Klee D, Memmott T, Peters B, Wiedrick J, Fried-Oken M, Oken B; Consortium for Accessible Multimodal Brain-Body Interfaces (CAMBI). Methodology and preliminary data on feasibility of a neurofeedback protocol to improve visual attention to letters in mild Alzheimer's disease. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2022 Jun 13;28:100950. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2022.100950. PMID: 35754975; PMCID: PMC9228283.
- McLaughlin, D.E., Klee, D., Memmott, T., Peters, B., Wiedrick, J., Fried-Oken, M., and Oken, B. (2021) Methodology and feasibility of neurofeedback to improve visual attention to letters in mild Alzheimer’s disease. Arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12153
- What's on Your Mind? Conversation Topics Chosen by People With Degenerative Cognitive-Linguistic Disorders for Communication Boards. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2015, 24(2), 272-280.
- AAC to Support Conversation in Persons with Moderate Alzheimer's Disease. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2015, 28(4), 219-231. PMC # 3755605.
- AAC Strategies and Tools for Persons with Dementia. The ASHA Leader 16 (2010): 8-11.
- The Effect of Voice Output on AAC - Supported Conversations of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease. ACM Transactions of Accessible Computing (TACCESS). 2009, 1(3).
Presentations
Every year we give presentations about the work we are doing. We have a diverse team who present on different aspects of the study.
- Symbols and Output Modes for Augmented Conversation in Moderate Dementia
- ASHA, Variable Effects of AAC Input/ Output on Conversations in Dementia
- Supporting Conversation in Persons with Alzheimer's Disease, Festival of International Conference on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology, Toronto, Canada, June, 2007.
- Linguistic Access to Different Symbol Types by Persons with Dementia, ISAAC, Toronto, Canada, October, 2004
- Communication Supports for Persons with Dementia
- Can We Augment Conversation for Persons with Dementia? ISAAC, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2006
- AAC is a Semantic Prime for Conversations in Moderate Alzheimer's Disease, ISAAC, Montreal, Canada, 2008
Community input
Below are links to articles and other writings from community members who are participating in our research. You will also find links to newsletters featuring our research.
Click the image below to see a full-size rendering of our research poster.
Resources for families
Communication supports
We hope you will find these handouts helpful for those with Alzheimer's Disease.
Useful websites
Below you will find links to online resources that we find useful. We encourage research participants and their families to take a look.