My Story, My Way: A Personalized Approach to Social StoriesMay 16, 2025 at 9 AM – 10:30 AM PT. Join Rebecca Matthews Carlson, M.S. CCC-SLP, for an interactive webinar on creating personalized social stories for individuals who benefit from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) with unique vision, access and language needs. Drawing from her experience at … Continue reading

Bridge to Life Services, a division of The Bridge School, in collaboration with The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh, is hosting a conversation series with Dr. Christine Roman Lantzy and other experts in CVI, language development and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Series Overview Class dates will be every other Thursday at 12 pm –1 pm PT/2 … Continue reading

The Bridge School’s new division, Bridge to Life Services, is tentatively planning an intensive summer institute for individuals with a CVI diagnosis or those demonstrating characteristics of CVI and who use AAC from June 23, 2025 to June 27, 2025 in Burlingame, CA. In addition to AAC, the areas of focus for the summer institute could include CVI, … Continue reading

Effective Interaction Strategies for Children with Cortical Visual Impairment and Complex Communication Needs In previous webinars, we have talked about the impact of Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) on children with Complex Communication Needs (CCN), how to identify them, assess and accommodate the environment and the materials we use with them; and although we have talked … Continue reading

Talking with Technology October is the official Communication Awareness month, but Communication Awareness at The Bridge School is EVERY month. We share a location with North Elementary School in Hillsborough and our students attend classes and events with North students and staff.  Recently two of our students, who are on the North School Student Council, gave … Continue reading

Early bird registration open for Onsite attendees and Webcast Hosting Sites Thanks to the generosity of Cisco Systems, we are pleased to announce that registration is open for The Bridge School’s 2023 AAC By the Bay Conference: It Takes a Village.  This year, finally, we are hosting the conference on-site at the Cisco Executive Conference … Continue reading

Millions of people in the world have speech and language disabilities that make communication difficult. Therefore, it is critical to remind others that accessibility includes communication. Communication Access is about what you can do to communicate effectively. Personalize the “Accessibility Includes Communication” flyer and share with others tips on how they can interact and communicate … Continue reading

Save the Date for The Bridge School AAC by the Bay, April 27-28,2023. @ Cisco in San Jose, California.  Join us live in-person orstream online.  Details coming soon at: https://www.bridgeschool.org/outreach/aac-by-the-bay/

SAVE THE DATE!!June 12-17, 2022 The Bridge School is excited to announce that we have formed a partnership with Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy, internationally known expert on Cortical Vision Impairment, to further our work in this area and to enhance the services we are providing our students.  The opening venture of this partnership will be the … Continue reading

Sarah Yong, a former Teacher-in-Residence from The Bridge School, and her sister have written a compelling story about a young girl with cerebral palsy and her pet bird as they both seek to find friendship, freedom and their place in the world.  Mei assigns colors to the voices in her world in an imaginative, creative … Continue reading