By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger With the COVID-19 virus keeping us at home, we have time to reflect back on our lives.  We can remember and ponder things that we didn’t think about before, or reflect on the good old days. One memory I have would be when my family went to Florida.  I was nominated t...

By Darlette Navortski, M.A.,CCC-SLP When I’m looking for inspiration, I look to nature. Taking a walk through the woods, sitting by a stream, climbing a mountain has helped me through difficult times and have reminded me of the value of being in the moment…….the moment in front of me at this very second. As I...

By Ben Bond, Speech Pathologist (VIC), Liberator Pty Ltd I was walking around a corner the other day and I ran into someone. The bad type of running into someone, the type where you bang heads and get coffee spilt on you. With coffee on my shirt, I grumbled under my breath and offered a brisk apology and went on my not-s...

by Anthony Arnold, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador  I’m Anthony Arnold, an augmentative and alternative communicator from San Tan Valley, Arizona. When I went through school in the 1980s-90s, there were few resources to teach someone like me how to read and spell effectively. Therefore, my parents and teachers chose to ...

_ By Jackie Edwards, writer_ People with communication difficulties today are fortunate to live in a time when there are so many technological tools to help give them a voice. Yet no matter how good the technology, there are two sides to effective communication, and the benefits of these tools will be lost unless we are pr...

By David Chapple, PRC Ambassador Kate and David I moved to Austin from Cleveland in April of 2012 to be with my then fiancé Kate. My best friend Mike drove me and my two dogs in a big moving truck across the country with my van being towed behind. Mike said it was like driving a tank with a white elephant pulling us fr...