By Brandon Williamson, PRC-Saltillo Blogger First of all, I like to use my device to communicate. But to be honest with you, I do not like using my device all the time. When people do not understand me or do not have patience with me when I’m using my device, I feel frustrated. I am good at using my...
By Valerie Susnick, MS CCC-SLP, PRC-Saltillo Regional Consultant As a PRC-Saltillo consultant, and previously an AAC evaluator, I have had the opportunity to work with many teams. Over the years, I have found that the ease of technology paired with the desire to foster success, has often prompted teams to jump in and start...
By Carson Covey, PRC-Saltillo Blogger We all know that AAC needs more awesomeness! My goal is to leave a legacy for AAC! If you have an opportunity to bring awareness, do not pass it up. What I do is talk about AAC mostly. I talk about what AAC is, what devices I had, and of course my experience. Since cases of COVID are g...
By Danny Gonzalez, PRC-Saltillo Blogger I am going to talk about how theme parks handle people with disability and how they handle the disability people and the rides. Some places handle the disabled people good then others they do a not so good job. I been to a lot of different parks where people just did not care a...
By Kim Vuong, PRC-Saltillo Blogger For years, I did all my grocery shopping the old-fashioned way, by traveling to the store and going up and down the aisles, picking out the items that I wanted and putting them in my cart. But like so many other things in life, my shopping habits have been changed by the pandemic. ...
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...