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Strange Place


  Posted on Feb 28, 2020 - 11:24am

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Last Sunday, we visited a new church.  My dad had heard about it through friends.  So, even though the church was farther than we usually go, we went.  And as usual, I had my Accent 1000 with me. Everyone at the church seemed very nice.  One woman came over to in...


    Life With Kyle   -    AAC, Accent, communication partner, frustrati...


All The Avenues To Access


  Posted on Feb 26, 2020 - 12:26pm

By Ceclia Marietti, M. Ed, PRC-Saltillo As a PRC-Saltillo Assistive Technology Consultant I have had the joy of working with hundreds of AAC communicators.  In February of 2016, I had the privilege of meeting Meredith Noble in an AAC consultation.  Meredith was a bright 29-year-old woman with Cerebral Palsy worki...


    Stories And Strategies Fo...   -    access, AAC, journey, nova chat


Gimmie 5


  Posted on Feb 19, 2020 - 4:26pm

By Elyse Pycraft M.S., CCC-SLP, NE Ohio PRC Consultant Up high, in the sky! Down low… too slow! Ok, so not THAT kind of 5. Gimmie 5 (words) is a simple strategy when adding new vocabulary to an AAC system. Vocabulary selection for a beginning communicator can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. By n...


    Stories And Strategies Fo...   -    therapy, implementation, high five, aac, comm...


Memories


  Posted on Feb 13, 2020 - 10:33am

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Sometimes we win, and sometimes we don't in this adventure that we call life. Last week I lost my step-grandpa unexpectedly.  My parents and I were there visiting him in the hospital when he passed. It was quite a shock. My mom, aunts, and Uncle had to quickly put together a...


    Life With Kyle   -    memories, memorial, AAC, family, funeral


My New IPad Pro


  Posted on Feb 12, 2020 - 9:01am

By Daniel Pop, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I have been using iPads for a few years now, for fun, playing word puzzle games, texting and Facebook, reading books, also I’m using it for my communication with the TouchChatHD app. For my 20th birthday, I got the latest iPad Pro version with face recognition.  Because I don...


    Communicators In Action   -    ipad, apple, mac, saltillo, ambassador, blogg...


It's A Hairy Life


  Posted on Feb 7, 2020 - 11:45am

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger In 2019, I decided to grow my hair out long. Actually I had long hair once before, and my mom said she liked it. But then I slowly got sick of it and cut my hair.  Since then I have kept my hairstyle the same length up until my late teens. When I was nineteen, I wanted the long ...


    Life With Kyle   -    hair cut, life, AAC, expectations