By Carson Covey, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Using your device in your community Since COVID-19’s requirements are lifted for most of the states, now is a good time to brush up on your AAC skills in your community. You might be rusty on your community skills since March 2019 because I know I am. Like I said before preprogr...

By Carson Covey, PRC-Saltillo Blogger Hello friends, I cannot believe that Thanksgiving has already flown by. Do you want more activities for Hanukkah and Christmas? For those of you who celebrate Hanukkah, have your kids program preprogrammed buttons that say what they want to eat for the 8 nights of dinner. If they can,...

By Beth Browning, M.A., CCC-SLP It’s time to take a test. Answer these questions: - Which planet is sixth from the sun, is very big, spins fast but moves around the sun slowly, and has large rings? - What do we call the time between 1760-1840 when life was changed by how things were made? - Name a type of housing th...

By: Mike Hipple, PRC-Saltillo Blogger   In special education and assistive technology, we have our own language. Families might not understand the language and our sayings. One of them is called descriptive teaching. Now you might be asking yourself what is that and how do we use this with AAC Communicators? Good que...

By: Chris Klein, PRC-Saltillo Blogger It was my freshman year at Hope College and I was in psychology class.  I have met the professor before classes started, but when he asked the first question of the class, he was surprised my foot shot up into the air.  He immediately called on me.  He waited for me to p...

By Margaret Moore, PRC-Saltillo Blogger In today’s world, so much of society uses video creation for marketing, promotion, and simply entertainment. During my undergraduate and graduate English/creative writing studies at Fairfield University, I learned how an essay, a poem, and all other literary works can take the ...