Cristina Martin-Valero

Author Bio (max 750 words): Cristina Martin-Valero. Is a 23 AAC communicator who experiences Phieffer Syndrome. She started using a speech generating device when she was four years old. She now uses a Talk To Me Technology device with Proloquo2Go, which she likes very much because she uses it to speak to her family and friends in both English and Spanish, and to socialize with her peers. She completed the Access Program last year. And she is now taking Art and Theater classes in City College. She also attends the Friends Like Me program at the ARC which she enjoys very much because she socializes with her peers, although she is the only one in the program who uses a communication device.

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