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Jeff Higginbotham, Ph.D., CCC/SLP
Professor, Director of Admissions
Office: 103-D Cary Hall
Office Phone: 716.829.5542
Email: cdsjeff@buffalo.edu

Current Work:

My current research activities focus on how augmented communicators interact with each other in real time and how communication technologies can be designed to improve performance. I am a partner in the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Communication Enhancement (AAC-RERC) http://aac-rerc.com. I am also the director of the Center for Excellence in Augmented Communication at the University at Buffalo (http://letschat.info)

Website:
http://letschat.info

Education / Training:

• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1985. Comparative Studies in Human Social Interaction.
• M.S., Communicative Disorders, 1979, University of Louisville. Thesis.
• A.B., Psychology, 1975, Indiana University.

Employment / Professional Experience:

• Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo. Director, Signature Center for Excellence in Augmented Communication, 2004 to Present.
• Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo. Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, 1995.
• Adjunct Graduate faculty member, Rehabilitation Science Department, University at Buffalo, 2007 to Present.

Professional Honors/ Advisory and Editorial Boards:

• Recipient, Licensed Innovation award, The Research Foundation, The State University of New York: Innovation, Creation and Discovery, November 3, 2005.
• Nominee, Inventor of the Year, Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association and the Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier, 2002.

Research and Creative Activities:

• Higginbotham, D. J, Bisantz, A. M., Sunm, M., Yik, F., Adams, K. (2009). The effect of context priming and task type on augmentative communication performance. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 25(1), 19 - 31.
• Higginbotham, D. Jeffery, Wilkins, D. (2009). In-person Interaction in AAC: New perspectives on utterances, multimodality, timing and device design. Perspectives on Augmentative Communication, 10pp.
• Wisenburn, B., Higginbotham, D. Jeffery (2009). Participant Evaluations of Rate and Communication Efficacy of an AAC Application Using Natural Language Processing. To appear in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 12 pp.
• Todman, J., Alm, N.,Higginbotham, D.J., File, P. (2008). Whole utterance approach in AAC. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 24(3), 235 - 254.
• Wisenburn, B., Higginbotham, D. Jeffery (2008). An AAC Application Using Speaking Partner Speech Recognition to Automatically Produce Contextually Relevant Utterances: Objective Results. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 24(2), 100 - 109.
• Higginbotham, J., Shane, H., Russell, S., & Caves,K. (2007). Access to AAC: Present, Past, and Future. Augmentative and Alternative Communication.23 (3), 243 – 257.
  Higginbotham, D. Jeffery, Beukelman, D., Blackstone, S., Bryen, D., Caves, K., Deruyter, F., Jakobs, T., Light, J., McNaughton, D., Moulton, B., Williams, M. (2009). AAC Technology Transfer: An AAC-RERC Report. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 25, 68 - 76.

• Higginbotham, D.J. Kim, K. & Scally, C. (2007). The effect of the communication output method on augmented interaction. Augmentative and Alternative Communication,23(2), 140-153.
• Smith, L., Higginbotham, D.J., Lesher, G. & Mathy, P. (2006). The Development of an Automated Method for Analyzing Communication Rate in Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Assistive Technology. 18, 107-121.
• Capilouto, G.J., Higginbotham, J., McClenaghan, B., Williams, H., & Dickerson, J. (2005). Comparison of a head operated device and expanded keyboard in a target acquisition task. Technology and Disability.
• Burkard, R., Higginbotham, D.J., Lezynski, J. and Stecker, N. (2005). The AuD Program at the University at Buffalo, American Journal of Audiology, 13 (2), 118-125.
• Welland, R., Lubinski, R. & Higginbotham, D.J. (2003). Discourse Comprehension Test Performance of Elders with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type. Journal of Speech, Languge and Hearing Research, 45, 1175-1187.
• Higginbotham, D. J. (2003). Formulating research questions: Linking theory to the research process. In R. W. Schlosser (Ed.), The Efficacy of Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Toward Evidence-Based Practices (pp. 43-55). St. Louis: Elsevier.
• Higginbotham, D. J. & Caves, K. (2002). AAC performance and usability issues: the effect of AAC technology on the communicative process. Assistive Technology 14(1): 45-57.
• Higginbotham, D.J., Lesher, G.W., Moulton, B.J. & Rinkus, G.J. (2002) Automated Data Logging in Augmentative Communication. In J. Winters, C. Robinson, R. Simpson, G. Vanderheiden, Eds.), Emerging and Accessible Telecommunications, Information and Healthcare Technologies – Engineering Challenges in Enabling Universal Access. Arlington, Resna Press. 82-94.
• Higginbotham, D.J. & Wilkins, D.P. (1999). Slipping through the timestream: Time and timing issues in augmentative communication. To appear in J. Duchan, D. Kovarsky & M. Maxwell (eds.), The social construction of language incompetence, Lawrence Ehrlbaum, Publisher. pp 49 – 82.
• Lesher, G., Moulton, B. & Higginbotham, D.J. (1999). Scanning alternatives for augmentative communication systems. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 14, 81-101.
• Lesher, G., Moulton, B., & Higginbotham. D.J.(1998). Optimal arrangements for ambiguous keyboards. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 6, 415-423.
• Higginbotham, D. J., & Baird, E. (1995). Analysis of listeners' summaries of synthesized speech passages. AAC Augmentative & Alternative Communication, 11(2), 101-112.
• Higginbotham, D. J., & Bedrosian, J. L. (1995). Subject selection in AAC research: Decision points. AAC Augmentative & Alternative Communication, 11(1), 11-13.
• Higginbotham, D. J., Scally, C. A., Lundy, D. C., & Kowarsky, K. (1995). Discourse comprehension of synthetic speech across three augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) output methods. Journal of Speech & Hearing Research, 38(4), 889-901.
• Higginbotham, D. J., Drazek, A., L. Kowarsky, K., Scally, C., & Segal, E. (1994). Discourse comprehension of synthetic speech delivered at normal and slow presentation rates. AAC Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 10(3), 191-202.
• Higginbotham, D. J. (1989). The interplay of communication device output mode and interaction style between nonspeaking persons and their speaking partners. Journal of Speech & Hearing Disorders, 54(3), 320-333.
  

Teaching:

• CDS 502: Research Methods
• CDS 670: Augmentative Communication
• CDS 681, 683: Seminar in Augmentative Communication Research
• CDS 687: Doctoral Seminar

Service:

National/International

• Program Chair, 2008 Clinical AAC Conference.
• ISAAC Program Commitee, 1996 Convention.
• Co-organizer for conference on Augmentative Communication Research. Sponsored by NIDCD, 2004.
• ISAAC Program Commitee, 1994 Convention.
• ASHA Lanugage Disorders IV Program Committee Chair, 1992 convention.
• ASHA Lanugage Disorders IV, Program Committee Chair, 1991 convention.