_ By Hank Poore, PRC Blogger_ There are a lot of people who have inspired me. But the ones who have really have inspired me are the ones who have walked along beside me for my whole life. I met Miss Kim when I was 6 months old and she was my Physical therapist and she was kinda like my second mom to me also . She was alwa...
_By Ryan Knoblauch, SLP I’m always looking to get kids to engage in learning, and it’s really all about having fun. The core vocabulary movement is taking augmentative and alternative communication by storm and people are always looking for ways to learn and use their AAC systems. Being a speech therapist, I ...
_ By Kim Bond Thompson, M.S. OTR/L_ Prepositions: Not Just Important in English Class I have to admit that I have a weird relationship with prepositions. When I was in 3rd grade, we had to learn the top 50 prepositions and then our teacher had a competition. Whoever could say all of the prepositions the fastest withou...
By Jane Odom, M.Ed, Director of Implementation Resources Shout Out It is important to give our AAC device users enough time to practice their vocabulary in a meaningful way. One way to teach core vocabulary with repetition in a group is to do a ‘Shout Out’ activity. In this activity, you will need to create a poste...
By Wylanta Jones, M.S.- CCC-SLP How do we really measure progress in functional communication for AAC users? In the planet I invite my coworkers and families to join me in, it’s simple. We are getting somewhere when you can use your communication device to get in trouble. I give 10 times the weight in importance to wor...
_By Brad Whitmoyer, PRC Blogger The people at ABC and/or the people from the television show Speechless asked a number of people around the country to host “watch parties” during the Oscar-themed episode this past Wednesday and then write a blog post about the episode. If you have never seen the show, in a nutshell i...