ISAAC AAC Awareness Month
 
 


2008 MANY STORIES ONE VOICE ONLINE COLLECTION

Luca AbiChedid, Age 9, United  States


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I am 9 years old. I am in the Centerville school. Centerville is a school in Beverly

I use My Tobii  to communicate and read.

I use viking to write. The My Tobii  is at school all week. I worked in my house and at school.

 

 

I won the pie-eating contest

by Luca AbiChedid

 

On Saturday from 4:30 to 7:30 my family and I went to the pie-eating at Centerville School. We sat between Amy and Mrs Gove. We listened to Mrs Noglar, who said. "Players will dig around and eat off the whip cream. You will not share the pie. The first person to be done when 20 seconds are up, gets the metal.  On your mark, get set, go."

 

I ate and I ate.  I dug around the apple.  My brother Nichola was in the crowd.   He yelled and yelled, "GO LUCA!   Eat and eat and eat!"   My brother uses an AAC device to talk.   He used to poke at the letters with his hand, but now he uses a switch to access his Apple computer. The computer freaked out and said "I am going to sleep." The computer slept.   I was so sad because I couldn't hear my brother cheer anymore.     

 

I was the winner.  I got the metal!   I won the metal + a golden piece of the pie.  I was proud of myself.

  

The next day at 3 a. m., they showed the video on CW56 and at 10:30

a.m. channel 7.  It was also shown on GBH 2 at seven after the news hour.  I took Nichola to CW56 to watch the video in the studio.  His Apple said "Honk" and the spelling page came up. There is the keyboard the keyboard is like ABC but there was 3 word banks.   Nichola was happy because his computer woke up.  Nichola said "good job Luca!"