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Accepted: 14 July 2023

First Online: 24 July 2023

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: We used ChatGPT during the writing process for this manuscript in the following ways. During the initial planning and outlining of the manuscript, we prompted ChatGPT to “provide suggestions for how ALMs could be used to support people with IDD.” ChatGPT’s response included suggestions related to supporting daily living skills, vocational training, and spoken and written communication. We used the response to narrow down the focus of the article to communication. ChatGPT was also used to write the description of SGD operation with the prompt, “Describe how a speech generating device is used by people with IDD and communication impairment.” The resulting description of SGD operation required only minor edits. Throughout the writing process, awkward sentences that needed to be rephrased to improve clarity were entered with the prompt, “rephrase the sentence to improve clarity”. Finally, after completing the main body of the manuscript, we uploaded the text into ChatGPT with the prompt “write an abstract for this article.” The resulting abstract required minor editing. Before submission, we used plagiarism detection software (Turnitin) to determine if any of the content produced by ChatGPT was plagiarized. One sentence included eight consecutive words verbatim from a previously published article. We rephrased that sentence and the proper citation was confirmed and added.