Beth Waite, MA-CCC/SLP-ATP

Here she is using her Vantage Lite to type the high frequency words her classmates are writing.  By using the icon sequences, she can write the words and combine them to make sentences.  Because she has delays in fine motor skills, she isn't able to write them legibly with a pencil, but with her assistive technology she is "writing".

Here's Jacob using two switch step scanning and a dynamic display device.  He learned how to use one switch to move the scanning array and the second switch to select it. He started in preschool using a single switch message device and now has access to lots of vocabulary.

Can you name this communication device?  This is a TouchTalker, circa 1990, by Prentke-Romich Company.  My friend Daris and I were in the United Way Campaign of Central Indiana in 1991.  He is 5 years old here (nevermind how old I was).

  This highschool student uses her NEO portable word processor  every day.  She uses it for note taking, tracking  assignments, and written output.

Here's Lincoln with a Springboard Lite.  He has learned to combine 2 and 3 individual pictures to create independent sentences.  Lincoln can say "I feel happy", " I want more", "more go", "stop it", "I don't want it" and lots more!  We are ready to move him up to a Vantage Lite that will increase his independent access to even more words.