By Elyse Pycraft M.S., CCC-SLP, NE Ohio PRC Consultant Up high, in the sky! Down low… too slow! Ok, so not THAT kind of 5. Gimmie 5 (words) is a simple strategy when adding new vocabulary to an AAC system. Vocabulary selection for a beginning communicator can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. By n...

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 Parr Burton, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I started using my device by just playing with it. My mom called the speech therapist and said, "she is not using it, she is just playing with it." The therapist said, "she is playing with it to see how to use it." The first real thing I said was "fox." My mom asked, "what are you talki...

By Keslie Levad Hello my name is Keslie. I am 18 years old. I use a PRC device. Imagine that you were the only person at your school with a communication device. Nobody else like you. How do you learn how to use a communication device? Where I grew up there was nobody else like me really. I grew up in a small little m...

by Darryl Porter, Saltillo Blogger Every person has to get their hustle on these days, and especially disabled people. Some businesses won’t hire disabled people, because they think disabled people can’t do the jobs if the business decides to hire a disabled person. So the disabled person must prove themselves fo...

By Hank Poore, PRC Blogger This morning I did the Georgia half marathon. I did it with the Kyle Pease Foundation out of Atlanta. I ran with random people as my team. We had a pre race dinner the night before at our hotel that we stayed at. I also got to hang out with some of my friends that I met because of the Kyle P...