By Parr Burton, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I started using my device by just playing with it. My mom called the speech therapist and said, "she is not using it, she is just playing with it." The therapist said, "she is playing with it to see how to use it." The first real thing I said was "fox." My mom asked, "what are you talki...

By John Schnieder, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Hello, my name is John Schnieder. One day my brother Jacob got us tickets to go to see Josh Blue. Josh is a stand up comedian and I saw him on TV. My brother hadn’t seen him before and he liked him. Josh has the same condition as me, cerebral palsy. I think it’s cool to s...

By Margaret Moore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger In mid-February, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the world’s largest conference on writing, rhetoric, and composition, will take place. This international convention is typically attended by around four thousand graduate students and professors. I have ...

By Parr Burton, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I like sports. I have tried many sports like baseball, basketball, soccer, sled hockey, dance, running races, and horseback riding. Then my friend Matt told me about snow skiing and I gave it a shot. I went to Park City, Utah with my family. I was excited about going. I skied with some...

My presentation went wonderfully! These are some of the questions I got asked.   I would like to thank you for providing me with these very thoughtful questions! I have been speaking to various university classes for years, and these are some of my better questions, and I’m truly impressed. It was my pleasu...

Hello everybody! My name is Kristy Lipe and I'm one of the PRC Ambassadors for Tennessee! I'm in my early thirties and loving every minute of it. I have cerebral palsy but I don't let that stop me at all! I did taekwondo for eight years and I'm a 3rd degree black belt and three time world champion in A T A. And I had the ca...