Living life to the full celebrating cerebral palsy, speech and hearing impairments and using Augmentative and Alternative Communication AAC
Living life to the full celebrating cerebral palsy, speech and hearing impairments and using Augmentative and Alternative Communication AAC
I believe that dreaming, whether awake or asleep, comes from a place deep inside each of us.
Sparked by passion, unconscious wishes or a desire to achieve something special in life.
Welcome. My lifelong passion has been, and continues to be, empowering augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users to fulfil their own communication potential. While raising awareness of communication disability is my primary aim, my blog is my own take on life with cerebral palsy (CP) and dysarthria, which creates speech and eating challenges and my hearing impairment.

It has been a long time coming, and what a great day to share my news: World Book Day. This means I can very quietly announce my book will be published in November 2026. I'm hoping you will buy 'The Ultimate Lived Experience Guide to AAC: How to live audAACiously'....
Recently, I received a question about my primary school AAC journey and how this prepared me for transitioning to secondary school and adult life. This set me off thinking about the purpose of education, curriculum access and my own primary school AAC journey. Education aims to equip all young people to take...
Each year, the Shaw Trust hosts the Disability Power 100. This prestigious event celebrates the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK across 10 categories. All nominees are voted for by a judging panel of their peers making the awards something special. In 2023, I was absolutely blown away...
I’m sharing here some of the events that interest me or where I've an active part to play. If you are here then I hope they may also interest you.
Can't wait to catch you at the Communication Matters Peer Mentoring day in Leeds. To book contact: Communication Matters. I'm hugely privileged to be delivering...
The Communication Matters International AAC Conference is the UK’s leading annual AAC event. Over the course of two and a half days, participants will enjoy...
You can read my latest blog here. All my posts are related in some way to my cerebral palsy, my speech impairment which I augment using AAC, and/or my hearing impairment.
Not for the first time, and probably not the last either, I was recently asked about decision making. The question was: What is the best way for professionals to ask for, and include, your thoughts and opinions in their decision...
I was privileged to attend the All Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology reception. This was held on 8 May 2025 in Westminster. It was an honour to share first some of my lived experiences about using AAC. Then second,...
Having ownership of your voice is something we can easily take for granted. We might experience a cold, even have a bout of laryngitis but for the most part when we do speak we sound like ourselves. Our voice is...
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