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Euphemisms


  Posted on Apr 22, 2021 - 1:52pm

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...


    Communicators In Action   -    language, politically correct, communication,...


Group Therapy


  Posted on Apr 22, 2021 - 11:11am

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...


    Communicators In Action   -    group, aac, therapy, young adult, challenge, ...


By Margaret Moore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger A 2020 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Fairfield University, I am now in Fairfield’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. I am a PRC-Saltillo Ambassador, an intern for a book press, Woodhall Press, and associate editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. With p...


    Communicators In Action   -    aac, literacy, school, writing, professional,...


New Type Of Hand-Eye Coordination


  Posted on Apr 5, 2021 - 12:35pm

By Margaret Moore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I have been an AAC user for almost 20 years due to my Cerebral Palsy. As my disability only affects me physically, I have been mainstreamed since preschool. I am a 2020 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Fairfield University with a degree in English/Creative Writing, and I am currently an M...


    Communicators In Action   -    aac, access, cereebral palsy, scanning, joyst...


Favorite Apps


  Posted on Mar 31, 2021 - 11:47am

By Carson Covey, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Hello my friends, Do you know that you can open your favorite apps with one click on your device. Step one pick a page and a button that you like to edit. Step two hit edit and click an action. Step three when you click add action you should see a drop down menu and click open app....


    Communicators In Action   -    saltillo, apps,wordpower, aac, programming


Take Care Of Sensory Needs First


  Posted on Mar 29, 2021 - 11:15am

By Lance McLemore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I’m assuming that many people who read this blog are familiar with the LAMP method. In case you are not familiar with it, it is a therapeutic approach for teaching language. LAMP Words for Life is a language system designed to follow this approach. The LAMP method has 5 compone...


    Communicators In Action   -    autism, aac, sensory,