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Device Activities With AAC During The Holidays


  Posted on Dec 6, 2021 - 10:41am

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,...


    Communicators In Action   -    Christmas, holiday, aac, communication, langu...


Descriptive Vs. Referential Teaching


  Posted on Aug 16, 2017 - 1:03pm

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...




Descriptive Teaching


  Posted on Sep 14, 2023 - 1:44pm

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...


    Communicators In Action   -    descriptive teaching, AAC, communication


Descriptive Questions


  Posted on Sep 8, 2023 - 9:52am

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...


    Communicators In Action   -    descriptive teaching, aac, communication


Delve Into Digital Humanities With AAC


  Posted on Jul 5, 2023 - 2:15pm

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 ...


    Communicators In Action   -    digital humanities, aac, margaret moore


Defining A Self Image


  Posted on Jul 16, 2014 - 10:53am

_By Kevin Williams Kevin and his friend Jane Hello, this is Kevin again, a PRC ambassador from North Carolina. In my last blog post, “Motivate to Self-Advocate”. I discussed how communication partners can get involved with encouraging an augmentative communicator to use and be more self-sufficient with their device. I...