By Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP, Owner, Speech and Language Kids Establishing a Functional Communication System All children have the right to communicate. No disorder, disease, or physical limitation should be able to take that right away from them. For that reason, it is our obligation to make sure that all children wi...

by Koolla Tang & Debra Lee  It's great to interview you today about the impacts of AAC on social interaction. Can you tell us about yourself and your AAC journey? I’m Siobhan Daley, I'm 21. I live in Newcastle and I'm the AAC ambassador at Liberator. I've been using AAC my whole life from sign to PODD book...

By Emily Gabrielle, AAC Education & Resources Consultant After 2 years of swearing she wouldn’t be getting anything like this until she was at least 10 years old (I know I’m an idiot) I recently did the unthinkable and bought a tablet for our little girl. At present the well-known android tablet (or ‘hiPad’ ...

By Carson Covey, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Since school is in full swing, this is a perfect opportunity for you to put a goal in your IEP for the use of your AAC! You might be thinking that is work and you are right.  First of all, have you even read your IEP! Here is a thing that I recommend: When you put the AAC goal in...

By Johnny Schnieder, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I thought of having an ice cream social because I like to see how people interact with people that use communication devices -- and everyone loves ice cream!!   My favorite flavor is s’mores.   Jennifer, my local AAC consultant from PRC-Saltillo, contacted t...

By: Johnny Scheider, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador  I’m so glad that I have a speech device that will talk for me because I have a hard time talking. I learned that using the icons on my speech device is faster compared to typing everything out. You can program any word on your speech device. I learned from my local c...