By Cynthia Heryanto, M.S. CCC-SLP, Regional Consultant for Prentke Romich Company Since it is the beginning of the school year, I thought it would be great to consider how we can make the most out of one of the most common and nearly universal classroom routines- calendar time (or circle time). We all know too well th...

By Abigail Brown, PRC Ambassador It’s amazing to see how God has worked in my life the past four years—not only in my physical life but also in my spiritual life. On August 31, 2011, I had surgery on my legs. My bones were twisted. During the previous year I had been hurting when I walked, so I had this surgery to s...

_ By Marianna du Bosq, Sep 6, 2015 | Bilingual Parenting, Learning English, Learning Spanish, Multilingual Kids, Multilingual Parenting, Raising Multicultural Kids_ Whenever I am asked how to teach and maintain a child’s language proficiency, I always refer to the two “key ingredients,” providing enough exposur...

_ by PRC_ Stephanie Taymuree has witnessed huge advances in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) during her nearly 40 years as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) and special educator, and her implementation of AAC technology in the classroom is unrivaled. But she still finds it thrilling when a student embra...

By Kym Heine, M.S., CCC-SLP Regional Consultant for the Prentke Romich Company With temperatures still rising it’s hard to believe that summer is almost over and, for many, a new school year has already begun. As the pages of books start turning, let’s take some time to examine how reading can be used to teach c...

By Javier Chavez, AAC device user My name is Javier Chavez but I also go by Javy. I have been an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) user for about 30 years. I started to use the Prentke Romich communicators when my parents and I moved to Salinas, California from Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico at the age o...