By Keslie Levad Hello my name is Keslie. I am 18 years old. I use a PRC device. Imagine that you were the only person at your school with a communication device. Nobody else like you. How do you learn how to use a communication device? Where I grew up there was nobody else like me really. I grew up in a small little m...

By Lateef McCleod Lateef This summer I had a great opportunity to be a Storytelling Fellowship with Making Contact, which is a National Radio Program that plays on NPR and Pacifica Radio. During my fellowship with Making Contact I was tasked with producing a radio segment on the Augmentative Alternative Communication or A...

By Keslie Spider, PRC Ambassador Hello my name is Keslie. I have Prc’s Eco2. Imagine finding your dream job. Although being a PRC ambassador was not always what I had in mind plans change. I wanted to be a chef but then I realized nobody in their right mind would give me a knife. So I thought what am I great at? ...

_ By Grant Ahner_ I have awesome friends. Tom and Dot are crazy. They are good to me. Tom plays X-Box with me. He is good at playing Madden 15. They got me a new iPod. Grant and Friends They took me to NASCAR races at Talladega, Daytona two times, Michigan, Bristol, and Chicagoland Speedway. They took me to a Rams foo...

By Cammie McGovern, author Cammie and Ethan I got the idea to write a novel featuring a non-verbal character who uses an AAC device in part because I am the parent of a child with autism and I wanted to say something about alternative pathways to communication. I should quickly add, my son does not use an AAC device. H...

_By David Chappel, PRC Ambassador _ I have very good memories of my first apartment with my best friend from college, Mike. I remember the day he told me he wanted to move from the place he was living because his roommates were getting married to each other and the living situation was getting very awkward. Mike and Da...