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 ...

Martin Pistorious, Author Ghost Boy My name is Martin Pistorius and I have been using AAC to communicate for about 12 years. I have had quite an interesting and somewhat unusual journey through life and learning how to communicate - so much so that I wrote a book about it, Ghost Boy. Ghost Boy I chose to title my book G...

By Keslie Levad Hello my name is Keslie. I am 18 years old. I use a PRC device. Imagine that you were the only person at your school with a communication device. Nobody else like you. How do you learn how to use a communication device? Where I grew up there was nobody else like me really. I grew up in a small little m...