Uncommon Sense

If you are a member of an AAC family, you have likely heard that the most important thing that you can do (after providing your child w...

Yesterday I spent time cleaning out some toys and books, donating and trashing and reorganizing. I came across a good number of toys with me...

I've said it before , more than once , (and others have said it better ), but I will say it again: Nonspeaking, complicated children c...

 Do you have a young AAC user in your life who loves characters? Then this (very simple) project is for you: Hi friends! Maya loves...

This is Will. Will is a "typically" developing 2.5 year old who has had access to his own AAC device since the age of 17 months . ...

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about Maya's great love of characters. At the time she was fairly determined to learn the name of every carto...

This is a video of nothing particularly interesting. Now I bet that you're dying to watch it, right? I realized yesterday that i...

Yesterday Maya and I were in the car, driving from school to therapy. Maya was doing a variety of things: looking out the window, answering...

Like many children with global challenges, Maya has always been a child with a large number of goals. I realized early on that, as a human w...

Last week I wrote a post that highlighted the interesting (and kind of amazing) development of AAC siblings: both in terms of their inter-si...