By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger In 2019, I decided to grow my hair out long. Actually I had long hair once before, and my mom said she liked it. But then I slowly got sick of it and cut my hair.  Since then I have kept my hairstyle the same length up until my late teens. When I was nineteen, I wanted the long ...

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Sometimes we win, and sometimes we don't in this adventure that we call life. Last week I lost my step-grandpa unexpectedly.  My parents and I were there visiting him in the hospital when he passed. It was quite a shock. My mom, aunts, and Uncle had to quickly put together a...

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Last Sunday, we visited a new church.  My dad had heard about it through friends.  So, even though the church was farther than we usually go, we went.  And as usual, I had my Accent 1000 with me. Everyone at the church seemed very nice.  One woman came over to in...

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...

By Ceclia Marietti, M. Ed, PRC-Saltillo As a PRC-Saltillo Assistive Technology Consultant I have had the joy of working with hundreds of AAC communicators.  In February of 2016, I had the privilege of meeting Meredith Noble in an AAC consultation.  Meredith was a bright 29-year-old woman with Cerebral Palsy worki...

By Daniel Pop, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I have been using iPads for a few years now, for fun, playing word puzzle games, texting and Facebook, reading books, also I’m using it for my communication with the TouchChatHD app. For my 20th birthday, I got the latest iPad Pro version with face recognition.  Because I don...