Heart Speak Journeys Gallery

Welcome! This is the creative, collaborative, and heart work of many Heart Speak Journeys artists, writers, and creatives. Please respect their work by visiting, looking, and listening. You are welcome anytime and, please, invite others to visit too!

Creative expression is a form of communication. Through art, music, poetry, storytelling, and the myriad forms of expression we can communicate our thoughts, ideas, and feelings. By combining colors, images, textures, sounds, and words we weave a tapestry of our internal experience to the external world around us.

Heart Speak Journeys inspires an infusion of AAC learning, playful creative expression, and building relationship one communication community at a time.

Baby Bird

Enjoy Chloe’s lyrics remix of a classic by Raffi!

Text and communication symbols of lyrics

Songs are stories,

and Raffi’s original Baby Beluga tells the story of a little white whale who lives in the deep blue sea. This Official Animated Baby Beluga Youtube video weaves Raffi’s song with the artwork of kids. This is the essence of the Collaborative Creations you’ll see here at Heart Speak Journeys Gallery! Creating stories, poems, collages, songs, and so much more – together, collaboratively, collectively. We need you – please join us for Discover the Labyrinth hangouts!

Winter Haiku

Enjoy this winter haiku created by Chloe and Corbett at a virtual hangout! Join us for Discover the Labyrinth hangouts.

Happy Heart

A collective work by an intergenerational community of a young child named Corbett. The art was created by Corbett and his friends and family each taking a turn using a switch-adapted spin art toy while they used AAC to talk with one another throughout art making. The collage was arranged using the finished spin art, picture communication symbol words, and the name tags of participants. Corbett directed the shape of the collage and expressed “happy” given the prompt. Therefore, this Creative Collaboration is called “Happy Heart.”

Prompt: what is one word to describe what Camp Corbett is all about or how you feel being here.

Picture communication symbol words: love, cooperation, magical, community, amazing, learning, incredible, good, cool, loving, awesomeness, support, beautiful, fun, friends, happy

Painted spin art and picture communication symbols of words inside wood cookie name tags in the shape of a heart.

See it in action!

Harness the Haiku

A haiku is a type of poem. It has five syllables on the first line, 7 syllables on the second line, and 5 syllables on the third. A group of participants at Camp Corbett harnessed the haiku using AAC to create this masterpiece:

Picture communication symbols haiku: I love it. Eat. Fun. Do you want to play with me? Tell me. Treat me well.

Picture communication symbol lyrics: you say boy, I say turtle, you say feelings, I say bunny, oh no!

Remixed Lyrics

Ever sing a familiar song with the wrong words… on purpose? A group of kids collaborated on this new rendition to a classic while learning to navigate their friend, Corbett’s AAC system.

Do you recognize the song? Go ahead, belt it out!