Watching YouTube & Talking with my Tango

Nicholas uses his Tango communication device to request favorite videos, use action requests and do a weekly movie review. He's getting good at selecting among his favorites, Scooby Doo and Blues Clues, giving them a big THUMBS UP!

Speech Therapy with George & the Balloonimals

We found this hysterical iPad/iPhone app that lets kids blow up virtual balloons, tie them into animated balloonimals and POP! them when they're done. We are having fun and working on our language skills at the same time. In this video George is having a blast and working on speaking in sentences.

Miracle & Gwendolyn Chat with their V's

Miracle and Gwendolyn sat down for a chat last week in our office. Both little girls are using Dynavox Series 5 software with pragmatically organized messages. This is a fun little snippet of our chatterbox girls learning about conversation.

New Device, Familiar Messages, Familiar Partners

Lauren is transitioning to a new speech generating device, the Maestro.  At 18 years old, Lauren has recently been showing a significant increase in her functional use of her messsages.  On this day, Lauren is getting used to the new device but is using some very familiar messages.  When she's stressed, Lauren benefits from holding her partner's hand when she touches her device.  When she's motivated  though she is VERY much in charge of what she presses and allows no direction from  her partner.  At the end of our video you can see how beautifully Lauren tells us she's "ready to go" and that she "want(s) to get in the van!"

Intro to the DynaVox Maestro

Carson is an emergent AAC user. Today was brilliant, watching him discover the power of communication with AAC and the Maestro. Good things are coming for this cute little guy!

Xpressing My Opinion on the Xpress

In late winter, 2009, Anthony was introduced to the Dynavox Xpress on the day this video was made. We considered the Xpress for Anthony because he's such a social guy and enjoys being fun, cracking jokes and being the COOL teenager he is. In the months that followed, Anthony got his own Xpress. He loves the video and MP3 player on his device and the COOL vocabulary. This video shows Anthony figuring out all of his commenting options on his My Phrases page set.

Damon on Valentines 2003

A visit with Damon 7 years ago to see how far he's come! This is Damon with his first Dynavox 3100 in January 2003. He used 36 location Gateway at the time with some partner assistance for navigation to new vocabulary. Just a few years before this video was made we were told he couldn't use a high tech device. So much for that!!