_ By Danny Gonzalez, PRC Blogger_ Hey bloggers, I want to tell what happened to me and TJ (my aide). On Saturday November 4th 2017, we went to an event called Firs Annual Purple and Green Gala. It was an event for all kind of disabilities from CP to all kinds of disabilities. Here is a little background of the fo...

By Carson Covey, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I don’t know about you guys, but after sixteen years of experience with AAC, I noticed that I grew greatly with my device. When I got my first device, I despised it! I never used my device other than in my speech therapist’s office. My therapist threw me into a group of two...

By Darryl “Kippy” Porter, Language Lab Blogger Some people could call me a Renaissance man. I have numerous passionate interests. I’m Chicago born-and-bred. I have two brothers, although my father, mother and eldest brother are deceased. I like people to have a fair chance, especially disabled people. ...

By Lance McLemore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger One of my favorite comedians is George Carlin. I admire his very blunt, scathing, and witty social commentary. He has a very funny routine in which he lambasts the use of soft language. In his routine, George talks about how our use of language changes over time. It gets sanitized a...

By Jane Odom, M.Ed, Director or Implementation Resources Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts and colors. Plug in your AAC device ...

By Jane Odom, M.Ed, Director of Implementation Resources Shout Out It is important to give our AAC device users enough time to practice their vocabulary in a meaningful way. One way to teach core vocabulary with repetition in a group is to do a ‘Shout Out’ activity. In this activity, you will need to create a poste...