I was at a continuing education conference at Georgia Tech, there was a guest speaker who would be using a device to talk, and as I work with a good amount of kids using devices i was very interested. His entire talk was written on his device that spoke for him and he did it himself. He has cerebral palsy, he is in a wheelchair, and at that moment he reminded me of so many of my therapy kids. During his speech, he talked about being in self-contained classes in elementary school, hearing the nursery rhymes and alphabet songs played during the day although he was 9. Learning his colors and animals as if he didn’t already know. This continued until he was eventually evaluated for a communication device and began to show what was in his head all along. He could do complex math….people assumed because he could not speak and he had a severe disability that he had a childlike mentality. They talked to and treated him like a baby until he started talking back. This amazing fella is currently a student at Georgia Tech, who started his graduate program early.