By Himani Hitendra, PRC-Saltillo Blogger On 4th and 5th March, I attended my first Student Rights Initiative training held by COPAA (Council of Parent, Attorneys, and Advocates) in San Francisco. COPAA is a national peer-to-peer network dedicated to protecting the civil rights of students with disabilities and their parent...

By Brandon Williamson, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I like to bring AAC into my church congregation. I use my AAC device to read scripture on Fridays during Mass. I started doing this a couple of years ago after asking my mom about it. It is a fun way to use your device with a lot of people in your own community.  When I...

By John Schnieder, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Hello, my name is John Schnieder. One day my brother Jacob got us tickets to go to see Josh Blue. Josh is a stand up comedian and I saw him on TV. My brother hadn’t seen him before and he liked him. Josh has the same condition as me, cerebral palsy. I think it’s cool to s...

By Margaret Moore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger In mid-February, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the world’s largest conference on writing, rhetoric, and composition, will take place. This international convention is typically attended by around four thousand graduate students and professors. I have ...

My presentation went wonderfully! These are some of the questions I got asked.   I would like to thank you for providing me with these very thoughtful questions! I have been speaking to various university classes for years, and these are some of my better questions, and I’m truly impressed. It was my pleasu...

Hello everybody! My name is Kristy Lipe and I'm one of the PRC Ambassadors for Tennessee! I'm in my early thirties and loving every minute of it. I have cerebral palsy but I don't let that stop me at all! I did taekwondo for eight years and I'm a 3rd degree black belt and three time world champion in A T A. And I had the ca...