By: Mike Hipple, PRC-Saltillo Blogger It is a new year already, it is time for setting goals for this year. No matter who you are and where you are in life, everyone should have goals to work on during the year. Goals aren't just for school, therapy, or an adult service plan, you can have goals about anything. You can have...

By Chris Klein, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador It was 1992. I was 19 years old and a freshman at Hope College. This was the first time I was able to vote, and I was excited about it. This was my opportunity to get my voice heard and I wasn’t going to pass that up. I was living in Holland, Michigan, so I had to figure out ho...

By Margaret Moore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger As we head into this Thanksgiving week, I’m reminded of my first few years of using AAC as an elementary school student in the early 2000s. School and extracurricular activities—Girl Scouts, sports, church, and more—were always full of conversation about plans for t...

By Sarah Coiner, PRC Blogger I am disabled, and what that means for me is that I need someone's help to do anything physical. I can't feed, dress, or do anything of my own personal care. I can't even move myself from one place to the other. And when I am around friends, like at church, sometimes it feels like all I really ...

I think girl talk is important We girls talk about stuff that guys don't deal with. Sometimes we share stuff that's serious and sometimes we share stuff that's silly. Without my computer I couldn't talk and share. I have two cousins, Claire and Chloe. We get together to go to the beach in the summer and at Christmas. At ni...

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...