By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger On a bright and early Saturday morning, I greeted the day by jumping out of bed.  You would think that I was a morning person, but you'd be wrong.  Mornings aren't my thing since my day normally begins around noon.  And getting up early on a Saturday...well...that's ju...

By Keslie Levad I was a senior at Arvada West High School. Side note I was very involved in my high school; I was a cheerleader and I was in the student government. Everybody knew me as Keslie and not that girl in the wheelchair. My para, Candy, was like “Wouldn’t it be awesome if you were home coming queen?” ...

Angie Sheets, Intense Interventions Teacher Nicole Wingate, MA CCC-SLP Amy Shane, SLPA Heather Stoppenhagen, SLPA_ After attending our State convention on assistive technology, my SLP, SLPAs and myself were pumped about attacking core vocabulary with our students. My classroom is comprised of 14 kindergarten through fourt...

By Russell Cross, PRC Director of Clinical Applications One of the reasons using the Unity® language system is so popular is the simple fact that it provides a solid core vocabulary set. And the reason a core vocabulary is so useful is that it contains words used by everyone regardless of age, location, or topic. For ...

By Yusa Liu, SLPA What caught my attention were all of the students' various AAC systems in front of them as they sat in a half-circle around my speech-language pathologist (SLP) supervisor. On my first day at my SLP-Assistant (SLPA) internship, I observed a beginning AAC-literacy lesson in a public elementa...

_ By David Kay, M.Ed., OTR, Regional Consultant, PRC_ “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery In the world of AAC we work with individuals who are building their ability to communicate. But what about the ability to do? The model of human oc...