Sara Pyszka - DynaVox: Cerebral Palsy AAC Success Story

Sara Pyszka has sung the national anthem at two major league baseball games, led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 2004 Republican National Convention, and performed a number of original compositions in front of live audinces. Sara also lives with the effects of cerebral palsy and is unable to walk or talk. She, a college sophmore, uses her DynaVox Vmax to speak her mind, compose and sing her original works, and live her life as a typical college student.

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Science & Technology

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• Sara Pyszka
• dynavox
• vmax
• cerebral palsy
• aac
• speech
• communication
• speech generating device
• aac device
• speech device
• communication device
• speech output device
• augmented communication
• augmented communicator
• ERICA

[RaeneDay]

Wonderful video; tears to my eyes. I hope we can get my little girl a Dynavox. We are trying to get one but it's been a real challenge.

[theunopenedbook]

Now you can Like Sara Pyszka on Facebook

[hopewarrior]

Sarah, keep striving!

[mmebaudou]

Are your hands functioning well, Sara? How do you manage to speal so fast on yuor Dynavox? XCan you type as fast as you speal?

[WeirdGirlCyndi]

Come join my choir! <3 You'd be welcome!

[timandkimosburn]

Hi Sara! I am the Grad Assistant in the Human Services Lab (CAC M066). You stopped in one day to use one of our devices & I had no clue how to make them work because I was still learning. Sorry!! If you ever want to give me a DynaVox tutorial, feel free to stop by! :-) I would love to learn. I am also a musician and would enjoy hearing your songs. -- Kim

[TheRandomProductions]

children with sara pyszka are smarter than normal people, they just cant show it. like i have a cousin with it and hes 7. i mixed up a rubix cube and he got it figured out in less then 5 minutes. it takes me like 5 days.

[dogdoo4brains]

Incredible story!  I get where you're coming from. I'm legally blind, near totally blind, and my pet peeve is when people think that I'm so amazing. Now if only I can just get my JAWS screen reader to sing. LOL!

[flamingo1123]

I love Wright University - what a great story!

[fayeilusiana]

Hi Sara! I'm in this video! Lol <3 ya babe.

~Jessi