Year: 2021

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TalkTools® is always looking for new opportunities to meet our company mission: “Improving the Quality of Life for Children with Special Needs and Their Families.” One such opportunity was our Webinar Program, launched in 2017. Since then, we have launched 75 new courses, and 3,214 learners have benefited from these varied, relevant and applicable topics – PLUS, […]

I hope everyone liked the pictures of Emily’s graduation on my last blog.  Especially the ones with Elizabeth in them! It was quite a big day for us all both physically and mentally especially with what it meant to our lives. Emily was done with medical school!  We are so very proud of her. Emily […]

We are all very aware of time passing.  Especially this year and last year.  Due in part to the pandemic. Because we are often told the number of months “we have been in this thing” or how many months it has been since we have been able to do this or that.  Or when something […]

Vaccine Social Story? Well, for us I would not say as I actually wrote one out for Elizabeth. But I did walk her through what we will be doing, when think were doing it and what to expect for our COVID vaccine.  (Based on her age, she will qualify soon.) Of course, this was based […]

My name is Deverron Robinson and the thing that links me to the special needs community is my son (Shamel Isaac). He has ASD and I love him so much. He is 7 years old and he was completely nonverbal until 6 months ago. He is developing and learning at a rapid speed and we […]

What links me to the special needs community? I feel like my life has been one beautiful journey in learning about, supporting, and fully embracing the special needs community. I was raised by a parent who was a special education teacher and nannied as a high school and college student for two children who had […]

I was never one to believe in destiny. But, as a famous Armenian proverb says, you can’t escape it. Earlier this month, I randomly googled my mother’s maiden name. In the list of search results, “Charles Mooshian” caught my eye. I never met this man, my grandfather. He left our world more than 20 years before […]

Never would I have thought that a global pandemic would bring with it so much discovery.   The kind of discovery for my son that is finally bringing him words.  The closure of the world brought with it a necessity to find a way to work on speech with my son at home.   Noah is 12 […]

It is funny but when you are young the one thing you are asked more than anything is “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  The answers given are always interesting especially if you ask a three-year-old.  They usually respond with an unusual combination like a candy maker and astronaut.  But the […]