@inproceedings{shah-johnson-2026-ndd, title = "{NDD}-{R}1: Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal {LLM}s to Understand Communication in Non- and Minimally-Speaking Autistic Individuals", author = "Shah, Siddhant Bikram and Johnson, Kristina T.", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1630/", doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.1630", pages = "34681--34697", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }