By Darcy Lees, M.Ed., CCC-SLP There are some experiences that really stick with you. I remember sitting down to review a video of a student working with her SLP. It was hard to watch the SLP on the screen work with the little girl who was learning to use adjectives on her Vantage Lite. The SLP was talking too much; she...
By Shelby McCarthy, M.S. CCC-SLP & author I am Shelby McCarthy, M.S. CCC-SLP, and author of the newly released, Let's Go Play. I initially set off on this writing journey to create something to help my own daughter, Kennedy, transition into school. More specifically, I wanted her teachers to have a tool to ...
By David Kay M. Ed. OTR, AAC Specialist Prentke Romich Company Let’s get real about the ‘AAC Gap’ I am continuously amazed by the vast array of expertise amongst AAC service providers in the field. As an occupational therapist working as an AAC specialist for an AAC device manufacturer, I get to travel around the ...
_By Andy DuBois-White, M.S., Ed. December is a month we all equate with a few things. If you are in most of United States you may think of snow, cold, ice. Maybe a snow day here or there. You could also be thinking about all those holidays we celebrate. December is a month FULL of so many holidays maybe some you didn’...
_By Cynthia Heryanto, M.S., CCC-SLP I’ve read that the first step to getting over an addiction is admitting there is a problem. Lately I’ve come to realize that I have a “quickly load ‘em up with language” addiction. My thought process is always centered around how I can give the client access to more vocabul...
By Kerri Adamic Curtice, PRC Ambassador I’ve been a PRC User for thirty and some years with five different communication devices, and I have been an ambassador for eleven years. I do learn fast about some new features on these wonderful communication devices. It’s pretty amazing to know what the nonverbal people ar...