By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Change can sometimes be difficult, but sometimes it can also be wonderful. A good change recently came into my life. About a week ago, I got a power wheelchair! This isn’t my first power-chair. I had a chair when I was in the third grade. It was really fun navigating down the h...

by Patrick Fothergill, SLP Patrick is an AAC consultant for Liberator Communications Canada (LCC), which is a division of PRC-Saltillo.  He worked with kids & adults in public Ontario AAC clinics for six years before joining LCC. For me, one of best the things about working in AAC is how there’s always more...

By: Jennifer Edge-Savage, MS, EdS, OTR/L Did you know that Alexa understands AAC?Yes, she does! Alexa responds to voice…any voice. (As do other Voice Assistants such asGoogle and Siri.) No special cords. No pairing with bluetooth. Nothing extra to do. Just set upyour Alexa as usual and SPEAK. It is likely that you...

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogge It has been over four months since I had spinal surgery removing a disc that was pressing on my spinal cord.  Thankfully the surgery gave me my old life back again.  But the doctor wanted me to come back and have another MRI to check the healing.  Those four months slip...

By Chloe Wayt  PRC-Saltillo Blogger I woke up at about 5:00. It was the day of my flight to Minneapolis! I sped my way to the bathroom to brush my teeth and washed my face. Then Dad came in to get me dressed. I did my devotions before I drove out to the van to head to our local airport.  Once we were at the airp...

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Coming out of my room, I moved a toy out of my normal walking path, when the sound of crying caused me to pause and reflect on all of the changes that have happened recently in our life. We are fostering two kids who are family members. Their ages are three and one.  Thankfully...