18 July: 1 Voice: Transition

This year's teenage project was called 'Lost in Transition'. We had workshops, gave our own presentations, were filmed by Scope as part of their BT funded 'No Voice, No Choice' campaign, had a great time with friends that we only see once a year.

We hope we can get together again and work some more on Transition and becoming AAC Role Models, maybe even make a joint presentation.

24 June: DADLG: Quads BBQ

Always worth getting a bit dusty and wet for, the DADLG Quad bikes and BBQ night - good friends, good fun, good grub - will upload pics when I'm back in the UK.

20-22 June: Headlines Adventure

I had a great weekend with Headlines teenagers and families at the Pioneer Centre in Shropshire.

We climbed, abseiled, built rafts, went indoor caving, outdoor swimming, and played some really funny games round the campfire. I will write more and post some pictures soon but I am abroad right now.

13 June: MSOV: The Stories

I got together with my friends 17 times between April and June, and we wrote 2 stories for the ISAAC Many Stories, One Voice writing contest.

Around 100 stories were received from around the world and they are all going online shortly after the MSOV press conference at the ISAAC Biennial Conference in Montreal 4 August.

Everyone will have from August to October to practice reading the online stories ready for the reading events in libraries in October.

1 Voice Network Day: Sun 20 July

The weekend of 18 - 20 July is the 1 Voice teenager project and family network day.

This will be my last project with the 1 Voice teenagers as I am 18. I need to get good at communicating with my AAC so I can volunteer to help at future events.

If you use or would benefit from using a communication aid 1 Voice would love to hear from you. The website address is: http://www.1voice.info/ Here is the Network Day flyer:

Communication Matters Roadshow

Communication Matters Roadshow only comes to County Durham every 2 to 3 years, so this is a rare opportunity to learn about all the things that are available to help people with little or no speech or other physical disabilities that make communication and computer access difficult.

The CM Roadshow is for anyone who has an interest in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), users, potential users, family, carers, and all the professionals who work with people who have communication difficulties.

See you there!

MSOV: 3 dates this week

Our next three story workshops are on the flyer:


I will give a talk about Many Stories, One Voice and some story writing tips.

We we can look at the story planning sheets and writing frames I have downloaded from the Internet, do some art to start designing our story characters, and decide if we want to use some story outlines for practice before we write our own stories.

If you miss any of these workshops, don't worry, we will be meeting at least once a week this month and will post the dates and venues here as soon as they are arranged.