^ PRC Unveils New Online Resource

A new year…a new online resource! PRC is proud to unveil its brand-new website in time for the start of a new year. The site has been refreshed to be not only more visually appealing but to focus on the needs of professionals – and now caregivers, as well. The new prentrom.com has been updated to include a se...

^ Two Lives, Changed

The odds, they told her, were astronomical. The chances of her son having a rare disorder were the same as being struck by lightning. And then lightning struck once more. For Barrington, NJ, residents Kelly Sexton and her husband, Ryan, getting an official diagnosis for their two sons, Dylan, 7, and Logan, 5, was a myster...

^ PRC Is Proud To Announce Their Partnership With VocaliD

PRC has been a proud supporter of VocaliD from its inception, as they have worked to create customized, individualized voices for individuals who cannot speak.The combination of a PRC language system and VocaliD voice means that both the words that are spoken and the voice that is heard is one-of-a kind. People who use o...

^ Successful Teacher Uses Team Approach To Foster Learnin...

Stephanie Taymuree has witnessed huge advances in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) during her nearly 40 years as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) and special educator, and her implementation of AAC technology in the classroom is unrivaled. But she still finds it thrilling when a student embraces AAC to ex...

^ Adeline Bailey Overcomes Communications Challenges

"Every day you have with your child is a gift," says Natalie Bailey, mother of six-year-old Adeline. That philosophy has helped Natalie and her husband, Dr, Stephen Bailey, contend with Adeline's developmental disabilities stemming from Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). "During a routine sonogram at 24 weeks gestatio...

^ Freeing Joey Summers From "a Wordless World"

Joey Summers, the recent winner of a prestigious award for exemplary Ohio special education students, enjoys using his augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device to tell jokes and charm his teacher and therapy team. But communication hasn’t always come easy for this bright young man. It took a caring pro...