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 Ace Bryans Hello I am Ace Bryans, I am 16 years old, I am in a wheelchair and I live with GA1 a Metabolic Disorder and Dystonia a movement disorder so I can’t control my muscles. Because of that I can’t talk with my mouth but I have a special computer called Accent 1400 with eye-gaze, it follows my beautiful br...

By Kyle Dinwiddie Hello! It is Kyle. Today I want to talk about FEAR. It is funny and sad how fear can control us. We all have things that we are afraid of like the dark, clowns, spiders, snakes, ‘lions, and tigers, and bears, OH MY!’ Fear stops us from doing new things like trying a new food, or making new frien...

By Joseph Harrall Hi My name is Joseph Harrall I have an Accent 1400 and I can not live without it. It’s my voice, phone, tablet and everything I want it to be. I use mine for playing games, taking photos, doing my school work, talking to my friends and much more. The power is in my hands now. Having the Accent 1...

By Jacob MacAinsh I go to a club at my school. It is called H.O.P.E. Club. H.O.P.E. stands for Helping Other People Excel. Miss Keim is a leader of the club. We do a lot of fun things. For example, we like to bowl. I’m so good at bowling that I got four strikes. There were many people at the bowling alley. Many of my...

Jenna Blane, M.S., CCC-SLP There are days when I feel as though my creativity level has plummeted to rock bottom. I look at the giant bucket of blocks in the corner of the preschool classroom, and for some reason, cannot think of an exciting way to play with them. I usually revert to something like, “stack the blocks O...