Free AGOSCI member webinar

Research: Equitable and personalised communication access through an agency and identity lens

Presented by Jing (Jenny) Hu

 

Webinar overview 

This member webinar will showcase an AGOSCI funded research project focused on learner agency and identity amongst disabled university students with diverse content and communication access needs.

The session will introduce why it matters now to look beyond speech-centric AAC paradigms in tertiary learning contexts, with particular emphasis on treating all forms of content and communication as equal in learning processes. The audience will learn key findings that demonstrate how disabled adult students exercise agency not only to participate in institutional learning, but to show how they wish to be seen and heard as valued participants. Three key elements that constitutes equitable and personalised access are identified: time, choice, and voice.

This research was supported by the AGOSCI 2025 Research Grant.

 

Target audience

This is a member-only webinar.

This webinar will be relevant for university students with information and communication access needs, educators, AAC communicators, families, allied health professionals. 

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Webinar details 

• This is a LIVE webinar, delivered via zoom
• This webinar will run for 60 minutes, including time for Q & A, as time permits 
• This webinar will be recorded and a copy of the recording will be emailed to participants. 

 

Webinar date 

Thursday 3 December 2026

 

Webinar start time

VIC / NSW / ACT / TAS: 7pm 

QLD: 6pm 

SA: 6:30pm

NT: 5:30pm

WA: 4pm 

 

Presenter

Jing Hu is a PhD researcher and accessibility advocate whose work examines how technology-aided pedagogies can shape and be shaped by learner identity and agency in processes of enabling or restraining information and communication access. Drawing on lived experience of disability, Jing collaborates with educators and practitioners to raise a much-needed awareness of the values of being a diverse communicator and learner in institutional environments.

 

Disclosure

AGOSCI is grateful to Jing for presenting this webinar to the AGOSCI community. 

Clancy was the recipient of the AGOSCI 2025 Research Grant. 

AGOSCI acknowledges that differing views and opinions may be discussed throughout this webinar and may not always align with AGOSCI philosophies.

AGOSCI is an independent body and does not endorse individual expertise, products or brands over others.

AGOSCI acknowledges the presence and contributions of all suppliers and expertise in the Australian and International communities of AAC and diverse communication.