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An SLPA's Journey Into The Field Of AAC


  Posted on Dec 16, 2020 - 10:22am

By Yusa Liu, SLPA What caught my attention were all of the students' various AAC systems in front of them as they sat in a half-circle around my speech-language pathologist (SLP) supervisor. On my first day at my SLP-Assistant (SLPA) internship, I observed a beginning AAC-literacy lesson in a public elementa...


    Stories And Strategies Fo...   -    slpa, student, college, university, AAC


Riding Faith: A Movie Review


  Posted on Dec 9, 2020 - 10:25am

By Ayleen Armendariz - PRC-Saltillo Blogger When I lost my mom at the age of 10 years old, I was sad and mad because she didn’t listen to me. I told her not go to back to the house knowing that my dad was there. However, when she went back to the house, I knew I wasn’t going to see her again. In the movie, Ridi...


    Communicators In Action   -    netflix, movie, faith, God, feelings


How A Little Professor Became An Adult AAC User


  Posted on Dec 2, 2020 - 10:50am

By Lily Huston, PRC-Saltillo Blogger, AAC user and graduate student for an M.A. in Assistive Technology By all accounts, I acquired spoken language on schedule. Early, even. I certainly was reading early, devouring books until everyone accepted that little Lily always had her nose in a book--in the car, snatching a few wor...


    Communicators In Action   -    aac, sign language, ASL, student, college, un...


Having A Voice Is Not Enough


  Posted on Nov 23, 2020 - 12:09pm

By Lance McLemore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at a few conferences over the last couple of years. I have a presentation in which I talk about the difficulties AAC users have in forming relationships, and I have taken parts of it to use as inspiration for this post. For me personally, the b...


    Communicators In Action   -    aac, speaking, conference, language, device, ...


AAC Awareness Month 2020


  Posted on Nov 18, 2020 - 12:36pm

By Hannah Foley, PRC-Saltillo Blogger As we close out AAC Awareness Month 2020, I cannot help but reflect on my experiences within the AAC community, as both an user and professional. While I was growing up, I had no idea what I was going to do as a career nor did I ever think that the career that I would end up pursuing w...


    Communicators In Action   -    aac, awareness, october, communication


A School Year Of Core


  Posted on Nov 16, 2020 - 11:11am

By Alisa Lego - The Imperial Candidate for Masters in Science of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at San Francisco State University Our students want to connect with us and the world around them just as much as we want the same for them. Through communication we are able to join each other in our worlds to connect a...


    Stories And Strategies Fo...   -    implementation, AAC, core, school, SLP, teams