By David Chapple In 1996, I had been out of college for about two years. I met my future wife Kate at the Pittsburgh Employment Conference (PEC) for augmentative communicators. The conference was for individuals who use communication devices. I was from Ohio and she was from Texas. Our eyes met and we just knew, it was lo...

By Chloe Wayt, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I was getting into Minneapolis, Minnesota for my first week at work as an ambassador for the Saltillo Company. When I was born I got the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. Flash forward about three years later, I was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. Skip about another decade, I am aske...

Martin Pistorious, Author Ghost Boy My name is Martin Pistorius and I have been using AAC to communicate for about 12 years. I have had quite an interesting and somewhat unusual journey through life and learning how to communicate - so much so that I wrote a book about it, Ghost Boy. Ghost Boy I chose to title my book G...

By Chloe Wayt, PRC-Saltillo blogger The next day after I had finished working the booth, we went down to the bus stop twenty minutes early again. I prepared something to say if the bus driver didn't let me on again on my NOVA Chat. “Delete that.” Ordered Mom. I quickly deleted it. “I'm sorry.” I tol...

By: Jon A. Feucht M.S.Ed, Executive Director Authentic Voices of America Doctoral student_ As my wife tells me, it is the littler things in life that are the most important. In 2014, the AAC field bear witness to such a phenomenon and it is time that we reflected on it. Everybody and their brother took the “Ice Bucket ...

One day my friend invited me to go to her job’s Halloween dance! I got to meet a boy who had a speech device like mine. We became friends at the end of the night! I love to see other people use their device. People can understand me better.