dr. gloria soto in this wonderful feel to help children get empowered to participate in the curriculum at large. i'm proud to say that the i talk classroom really provides a forum for the students to participate and be included in the general ed curriculum. i'm really, i really want to talk about how our students are the most vulnerable and really need the most intensive communication strategies known. what is really important about what we do is we get them ready to use their communication devices to participate in reading, writing and a variety of other things. we have the best practices and i'm proud about that because we utilize ipads, we utilize electronic devices and technology and we've seen so many successes. i have worked at the middle school in the i talk program there and i have seen the students age out and move into transitional programs in adult day care programs, and i'm so proud to say that they can actually really even with the most intense communication difficulties they are able to tell people how they feel, what they want, what they need. we really need to be able to s