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Caute, A., Roper, A., Dipper, L., & Stark, B. C. (2025). Assessment and treatment of gesture in neurogenic communication disorders: An international survey of practiceInternational Journal of Language & Communication Disorders60(1), e13136.

Roper, A., Hilari, K., & Wilson, S. (2024, July). “Alexa, Help Me Practise my Therapy Exercises”: exploring mainstream voice interaction technology to support Semantic Feature Analysis therapy for aphasia. [Poster]. 2024 International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

Devane, N., Botting, N., Cruice, M., Roper, A., Szafir, D., Wood, J., & Wilson, S. (2024). Data Visualization and Decision Making in Adults with Acquired and Developmental Language Disabilities: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.13105

Roper, A., Barnard, R., Cruice, M., Marshall, J., Mulholland, A., Neate, T., & Wilson, S. (2024). “Difficult but Good”: enjoying accessible digital creativityAphasiology38(1), 92-122.

Hilari, K., Roper, A., Northcott, S., & Behn, N. (2023). Telehealth practice in aphasia: A survey of UK speech and language therapists, with a focus on assessment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.

Knoche, H., Abdul-Rahman, A., Clark, L., Curcin, V., Huo, Z., Iwaya, L.H., Lemon, O., Mikulík, R., Neate, T., Roper, A. and Skovfoged, M.M. (2023). Identifying challenges and opportunities for intelligent data-driven health interfaces to support ongoing care. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7).

Caute, A., Cruice, M., Devane, N., Patel, A., Roper, A., Talbot, R., … & Marshall, J. (2022). Delivering group support for people with aphasia in a virtual world: experiences of service providersDisability and Rehabilitation44(26), 8264-8282.

Bleakley, A., Rough, D., Roper, A., Lindsay, S., Porcheron, M., Lee, M., Nicholson, S. A., Cowan, B.R. & Clark, L. (2022). Exploring Smart Speaker User Experience for People Who Stammer. In The 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 1-10).

Carla Tamburro, Timothy Neate, Abi Roper and Stephanie Wilson. Comic Spin: A Comic Creation Tool Enabling Self-Expression for People with Aphasia. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)15(2), 1-27.  2022.

Roper, A., & Skeat, J. (2022). Innovation through participatory design: Collaborative qualitative methods in the development of speech-language pathology technology. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-6.

Behn, N., Moss, B., McVicker, S., Roper, A., Northcott, S., Marshall, J., … & Hilari, K. (2021). SUpporting wellbeing through PEeR-Befriending (SUPERB) feasibility trial: fidelity of peer-befriending for people with aphasia. BMJ open11(8), e047994.

Knowles, B.Hanson, V.Rogers, Y.Piper, A. M.Waycott, J.Davies, N.Ambe, A.Brewer, R. N.Chattopadhyay, D.Deepak-Gopinath, M.Gutierrez-Lopez, M.Jelen, B.Lazar, A.Nielek, R.Pena, B. B.Roper, A. Schlager, M.Schulte, B. and Yuan, Y. (2021). The harm in conflating aging with accessibility. Communications of the ACM64(7), 66-71.

Roper, A., & Mascetti, S. (2021). ASSETS 2020 UX panel report: ” lockdown experiences”. ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, (130), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477315.3477317

Marshall, J., Devane, N., Talbot, R., Caute, A., Cruice, M., Hilari, K., MacKenzie, G., Maguire, K., Patel, A., Roper, A. & Wilson, S. (2020). A randomised trial of social support group intervention for people with aphasia: A Novel application of virtual reality. PloS one15(9), e0239715.

Caute, A., Dipper, L. & Roper, A. (2020) The City Gesture Checklist: The development of a novel gesture assessment. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12579

Tamburro, C., Neate, T., Roper, A. & Wilson, S. 2020. Accessible Creativity with a Comic Spin. In ASSETS 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI: 10.1145/1122445.1122456

Timothy Neate, Abi Roper and Stephanie Wilson. Painting a Picture of Accessible Digital Art. In Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’20), 2020, Athens, Greece. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418019

Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan, Abi Roper, Stephen Lindsay, and Owen Sheers. 2020. Speech diversity and speech interfaces – considering an inclusive future through stammering. In 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’20), July 22–24, 2020, Bilbao, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3405755.3406139

Neate, T., Roper, A., Wilson, S., Marshall, J., & Cruice, M. (2019, December). CreaTable Content and Tangible Interaction in Aphasia. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems-Proceedings. AACE International.

Moss, B., Roper, A., Talbot, R., Woolf, C., Wilson, S., Hilari, K., & Marshall, J. (2019) Can hi-tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication effectively support communication for people with aphasia?. Aphasie, 23.

Roper, A.Wilson, S.Neate, T. and Marshall, J.(2019). Speech and Language. In: Web Accessibility A Foundation for Research. (pp. 121-131). London, UK: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4471-7439-4

Timothy Neate, Abi Roper, Stephanie Wilson, Jane Marshall. Empowering Expression for Users with Aphasia through Constrained Creativity, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300615

Timothy Neate, Aikaterini Bourazeri, Abi Roper, Simone Stumpf, Stephanie Wilson.  Co-Created Personas: Engaging and Empowering Users with Diverse Needs Within the Design Process,  in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300880

Roper, A. , Davey, I.G.W., Wilson, S., Neate, T., Marshall, J., & Grellmann, B. (2018) Usability Testing – an aphasia perspectiveASSETS ’18, October 22–24, 2018, Galway, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3241481

Grellmann, B., Neate, T., Roper, A., Wilson, S., & Marshall, J. (2018) Investigating Mobile Accessibility Guidance for People with Aphasia. ASSETS ’18, October 22–24, 2018, Galway, Ireland.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3241011

Roper, A. Grellmann, B.Neate, T.Marshall, J.  and Wilson, S.  (2018). Social networking sites: barriers and facilitators to access for people with aphasia. Aphasiology, 32(sup1:), pp. 1176-177. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2018.1486387

McNanaey, R., Wilson, C., Wallace, J., Brereton, M., Roper, A., Wilson, S., & Sturdee, M. (2018) Giving A Voice Through Design: Adapting Design Methods to Enhance the Participation of People with Communication Difficulties. PDC ’18, August 20-24 , Hasselt and Genk, Belgium.

Metteyard, L., Roper, A., Volkmer, A., Monnelly, K., McRae, J., Wallinger, J., Broomfield, K., & Roddam, H. (2018) What is a ‘clinical-academic career’ anyway? RCSLT Bulletin, July, issue 795, 22-23.

Morgan, G. & Roper, A. (2018) The use of Gesture by Children – both deaf and hearing. BATOD Magazine, May 2018, 40-41.

Woodward, S., Roper, A., & Benford, S. (2018) CITCEN toolkit: breaking down barriers to technologyRCSLT Bulletin, January, issue 789, 23.

Roper, A. (2017). Computer gesture therapy for adults with severe aphasia. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City, University of London)

Roper, A ., Marshall, J., & Wilson, S. (2016). Benefits and limitations of computer gesture therapy for the rehabilitation of severe aphasia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10:595. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00595

Varley, R., Cowell, P. E., Dyson, L., Inglis, L., Roper, A., & Whiteside, S. P. (2016). Self- administered computer therapy for apraxia of speech: Two-period randomized control trial with crossover. Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation, doi:STROKEAHA.115.011939 [pii]

Wilson, S., Roper, A., Marshall, J., Galliers, J., Devane, N., Booth, T., & Woolf, C. (2015). Codesign for people with aphasia through tangible design languages. Codesign, 11(1), 21- 34.

Roper, A. , Marshall, J., & Wilson, S. M. (2014, October). Assessing technology use in aphasia. In Proceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility (pp. 239-240). ACM.

Roper, A. (2014). Accessibility of computer therapy and technology for people with aphasia. ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing(108), pp. 50-53. doi: 10.1145/2591357.2591366

Marshall, J., Roper, A., Galliers, J., Wilson, S., Cocks, N., Muscroft, S., & Pring, T. (2013). Computer delivery of gesture therapy for people with severe aphasia. Aphasiology, 27(9), 1128-1146.

Galliers, J., Wilson, S., Roper, A., Cocks, N., Marshall, J., Muscroft, S., & Pring, T. (2012). Words are not enough: Empowering people with aphasia in the design process. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference: Research Papers-Volume 1, 51-60.

Whiteside, S. P., Inglis, A., Dyson, L., Roper, A., Harbottle, A., Ryder, J., Varley, R. A. (2012). Error reduction therapy in reducing struggle and grope behaviours in apraxia of speech. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 22(2), 267-294.