By Ace Bryans Hello I am Ace Bryans, I am 16 years old, I am in a wheelchair and I live with GA1 a Metabolic Disorder and Dystonia a movement disorder so I can’t control my muscles. Because of that I can’t talk with my mouth but I have a special computer called Accent 1400 with eye-gaze, it follows my beautiful br...

By Kyle Dinwiddie Hello! It is Kyle. Today I want to talk about FEAR. It is funny and sad how fear can control us. We all have things that we are afraid of like the dark, clowns, spiders, snakes, ‘lions, and tigers, and bears, OH MY!’ Fear stops us from doing new things like trying a new food, or making new frien...

By Joseph Harrall Hi My name is Joseph Harrall I have an Accent 1400 and I can not live without it. It’s my voice, phone, tablet and everything I want it to be. I use mine for playing games, taking photos, doing my school work, talking to my friends and much more. The power is in my hands now. Having the Accent 1...

By Jacob MacAinsh I go to a club at my school. It is called H.O.P.E. Club. H.O.P.E. stands for Helping Other People Excel. Miss Keim is a leader of the club. We do a lot of fun things. For example, we like to bowl. I’m so good at bowling that I got four strikes. There were many people at the bowling alley. Many of my...

_ By Spokes, aka Brad Whitmoyer_ So, if you have read any of my previous posts, you most likely know my opinions on overtime pay for direct care staff. Direct care staff go by a number of different names depending on where you are from but the people I’m referring to are the people who, for myself, take care of peop...

By Scott Scherer ONE: INTRODUCTION My name is Scott Scherer. I am 23 years old and go to college at Ivy Tech I would like to tell you about my experience using a communication device. I have been using a device to help me talk since I was about 6 or 7 years old. The technical word for it is a Speech Generating Device...