By Karim Tawfik, PRC Blogger Hi my name is Karim and I’m 16 years old. I want to work at Apple. I know that I’m young but there is a 9 and 13 year old that did it. I want to work for them because I like the system and Steve Jobs inspired me because he was working in his basement and he invented Apple. When ...
By Jennifer Shroyer, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador How do I show my gratitude in my relationship and how do I communicate that to the people I care about the most? All my life I have been nonverbal and it was challenging to show my gratitude with people who I cared about and for several years I was misunderstood being non...
by Danny Gonzales, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador We’re always on communication devices talking to people but sometimes we need to unplug from there. The way I unplug from mine after a long day at school from classes and student government meetings I put mine on the couch or it may be almost ready to die so I just go ahead ...
by Kristy Lipe, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador Hello everybody! My name is Kristy Lipe and I'm originally from Memphis , Tennessee but I'm down here in Long Beach , Mississippi now. I'm 34 and I have cerebral palsy but that doesn't even stop me from doing much! I did Taekwondo for eight years and I'm a 3rd degree black belt and t...
By Danny Gonzalez, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Being a disabled person, I have watched a T.V. show named Speechless. This TV show is about a boy that is in a wheelchair and cannot talk. He uses a low-tech communication tool. It is a letter board, and he uses his head to point to letters in order to spell out the words. As f...
by Herbert Fulton, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador March 1st marks the National Day of Unplugging, a day to step away from screens and technology for a while. For most people, that might mean putting down their phone or turning off their laptop. But for those of us who rely on AAC devices to communicate, unplugging isn&rsquo...