By Brandon Bubba Patrick Williamson, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Hi, my name is Brandon Williamson. I use an integrated Accent 1000. When the world shut down from COVID-19, I had to start doing my therapies online. I use Zoom for all of my virtual sessions. Instead of using a ...
By Cortney Maholtz, M.A., CCC-SLP By now you probably know that we communicate in a lot of different ways…with verbal speech, with our facial expressions, with gestures, or with an AAC device. Today, I want to talk about gestures. But not the normal gestures you are probably thinking of right now, like waving or poi...
By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo blogger This past week I went to a dance. It was called a New Year’s Cosmic Glow Party. I hadn’t danced for a long time, and this sounded like a lot of fun. So we packed up my walker and drove to a strange, dark, and somewhat foreboding building. Com...
By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger When I was six years old, my speech therapist recommended me to have an evaluation with Mid Missouri Assistive Technology in Mount Vernon, Missouri. I tried multiple types of communication tools during this evaluation. As she watched me, the therapist told my parents that my sp...
By Jane Odom, M. Ed, PRC-Saltillo, AAC Language Lab Training and Implementation Specialist The AAC Industry is quite small in comparison to other industries. We serve a unique population of clients. When a student is deciding what path to take for their future, I highly doubt, AAC Specialist is even something t...
By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger One day my dad and I were sitting on our outside swing talking and enjoying a peaceful evening. We could see our neighbor’s calves calmly grazing in the pasture to our left. Some were off in the field walking around; and many were simply laying in the grass. I was showing my da...