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From service dog to SURFice dog

Mads posted this on the Simmons ASTECH list and it is must watch.
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TED Talk: Patrick Awuah on educating leaders

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Celebrating the Life of Patty Cassidy

Celebrating the Life of Patty Cassidy

Patty Cassidy, or Patty the conqueror as she has been come to have been known by, has been battling breast cancer. On Thanksgiving, I got a call from Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite telling me that our friend Patty had passed away early that morning. I first met Patty at Closing the Gap and then [...]

Recognition of Proloquo2Go from the President…

…the President of The Pennsylvania State University, Graham Spanier, that is.
Penn State Board of Trustees meets; President Spanier’s remarks
Friday, July 10, 2009               12th Paragraph Down about Proloquo2Go and Samuel Sennott

Seriously, being a PhD student at The Pennsylvania State University is one of the most fantastic experiences of my life.  The individuals I am surrounded by [...]

A Reason to Become a Teacher or SLP

Lately, in such a good way, I feel pulled in so many directions, keeping family first, new friends, p2g, and last but not least, the PhD.  With so much data coming at you, it can be hard to keep the ax sharp.  Yet, there are times when someone tells you something and it pulls things [...]

Awesome Proloquo2Go User Video

In case something was needed to help get me up in the morning…

From The BusyBees Guide to Survival
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Schuyler and the new Big Box of Words

Seeing this video of Schuyler and her family totally made me smile.

It also reminded me of when my very young students got a couple Tango loaners in the mail and they couldn’t get past how very cool all the bubble wrap was that they came packed in! So we talked with the [...]

John Wooden TED Talk

I work to transition, or observe the transition(either way you want to look at it), from the comfortable and familiar yet always challenging classroom teaching and technology specialist practice, into doing a hybrid of that same teaching practice combined with research. Not that I didn’t research before, it is just the level, [...]

20 Tips to Promote Positive Self-esteem by Rick Lavoie

20 Tips to Promote Positive Self-esteem by Rick Lavoie

Richard Lavoie has posted a terrific resource:  20 Tips to Promote Positive Self-esteem.

There are a few teachers in this world that resonate with me in a way that is hard to describe.  Linda Burkhart, Karen Erickson, David Koppenhaver, Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite, Madalaine Pugliese, David McNaughton, [...]

Let’s Go

In AAC, we are ever more realizing that pictures and videos can be worth an exponential amount of words.  It is very hard to describe what I am experiencing in my life right now, so I’ll let this video that Greg sent to me help explain.  The music is by the Belgium artist Sylver. [...]