By Kim Vuong, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I have been working on getting the police department in my city of Long Beach to have a community forum to discuss the training and protocols dealing with people with disabilities.  Ever since I watched a video on how the Florida sheriff has trained with autistic people, I wanted to ...

By Jess, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Hey I’m Jess. I am 24 years old and I have an Accent 1000.My loved ones know me well enough to understand my other ways of communicating like facial expressions or eye movements but, for everyone else my communication device is paramount for me to have a voice. I use my device to commun...

By Kristy LIpe - PRC-Saltillo Ambassador Hey everyone!  I'm Kristy Lipe, I'm twenty-nine years old and I have cerebral palsy .   And, that is due to the lack of oxygen I had when I was born .   Thankfully though I think and understand everything like a normal twenty-nine year old does!  I'm a ...

By Lance McLemore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Here comes another installment of “What Grinds My Gears” from your friendly neighborhood grouch. It certainly seems like all of my posts are the rantings of a grouchy constipated octogenarian, but I think there’s a place for such things. I would like to talk about s...

By Kim Vuong, PRC-Saltillo Blogger The day before Mother’s Day, my boyfriend Brian and I got a phone call from Brian’s dad, saying that Brian’s Brother Dave had suffered a stroke and was headed to the hospital.  They had found Dave unconscious in his home. It turned out that he’d had several st...

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Life has become very different today.  With everyone feeling uncertain about the future, people appear to be anxious and impatient.  Maybe that is why there are so many grouchy and apprehensive people walking around ready to point a suspicious finger.  If you go out in...