By Javier Chavez, AAC device user My name is Javier Chavez but I also go by Javy. I have been an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) user for about 30 years. I started to use the Prentke Romich communicators when my parents and I moved to Salinas, California from Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico at the age o...

By Lori Holbrook What is a CHAT Bag? The CHAT Bag was inspired by our daughter, Hannah, who has Down Syndrome, Autism, Apraxia of Speech, and Hashimoto’s. In 2010, Hannah’s school decided to try out the Apple iPad 1 with her to see how she would do using it as a communication device. Hannah quickly took off ...

By Kyle Dinwiddie, PRC-Saltillo Blogger This week, I will be back attending college full-time again.  Long before our lives had been impacted by COVID 19, my spinal cord injury had caused me do some rethinking.  And attending college was something I decided to put on hold last year.  But since I usually like...

by Maragaret Moore, PRC-Saltillo Ambassador  July is Disability Pride Month, a national celebration of the disability community’s achievements, history, and experiences, and also an acknowledgment of the challenges faced by disabled individuals each day while navigating life and the world. It is relatively new i...

By Danny Gonzalez, PRC-Saltillo Blogger It’s Danny G.  The pass few months been rough on me because first I wrecked my van, and I was injured from that but not too bad.  I failed Spring semester because the class was just too hard online. I needed to be in the classroom for this class.  Also, I been g...

By Beth Waite-Lafever, MA-CCC/SLP-ATP Shared reading is a strategy used to teach emergent literacy skills. It’s an interactive reading experience that helps teach students the concept of reading. It serves to build social closeness, joint attention to an experience, models of how we treat books and other early literacy ...