Karina Carter & Nicole Young: Teaching Language to AAC Users with Horses
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What personal milestones does Chris share before the interview begins?
Welcome to Talking With Tech. I'm your host, Rachel Madel, joined as always by Chris Bouguet. Hey, Chris.
Hey there, Rachel. Well, so some exciting personal news to share with everybody in the podcast. My wife has been working on her doctorate for the last three, four, three and a half-ish years. And she just earned it. Dr. Bouguet walked across the stage at Virginia Commonwealth University and has a doctorate in educational leadership. So I just wanted to congratulate my wife, Melissa Bouguet, Dr. Melissa Bouguet, on her great accomplishment. It has been a long journey. with a lot of writing and a lot of researching and a lot of just um a lot of learning too but it is you know anyone who's gotten one knows that it is not an easy thing to do and i'm just super proud of her
Yeah. I mean, I feel like I've witnessed that, Chris, like I have seen Melissa, like on the couch next to you, like working on papers and doing things. And so I am really excited and shout out. Melissa is so hardworking and amazing and incredible. And now she has this amazing degree to, um, share, which I feel like is so great. And it's really hard work. And I really admire people that take the extra step to get more formalized education in that way, because I oftentimes think like, wow, that'd be so nice, but I don't think I could ever do it. So I'm like always very impressed by people who are, have doctorates and PhDs and things like that.
Yeah. She worked on a team of, she was one of five. And so there's that whole team dynamic that has to come into play. And it's so interesting the way you said something. It really triggered a memory for me. So when we were celebrating getting her doctorate, the way it worked is we went to Richmond, Virginia, and there was a little two-hour ceremony where they invite people who are everyone is getting their educational leadership doctorate and they move across and they get 30 seconds to come up and say something like Melissa got up and was like, I'd like to thank my family and my teammates, you know, that kind of thing, right? Like an award speech, right? Well, this, this one guy gets up and he gets up and he goes, yeah, I thank my wife.
I thank all my supports. And then he kind of puts his hands together. I'm going to everyone cover your ears. rubs his hands together and he leans into the microphone, he goes, and now the real work begins. All this knowledge that we've learned, now we gotta use it to help people. And I was like, started to cry. Melissa looked over. I'm like, yeah, dude, that's it. That's what you're doing this for. Yes, it's a personal celebration, but then tomorrow you roll up those sleeves because I do something with that knowledge. I was just so inspired by that. Later on in the reception, you walk around and they have little hors d'oeuvres or whatever. I ran right up to that guy and I was like, hey, I just need to shake your hands because that was amazing.
He was like, yeah, yeah, great. That's what it's all about. We got to help other people. And I was like, yeah. So it was just an awesome moment.
Yeah, I agree. It's kind of like now like the real kind of work begins. And yeah, it's great that he kind of like recognized that and shared that. So great. Wow. I'm so excited.
Congratulations, Melissa. Yeah, congratulations. Now, there is a second guy that I came up to in that reception. And when he got up in front, he said his thing. And at the end, he leaned into the mic, put hands on the podium, leaned into the mic, and he said, San Dimas High School football rules. And I looked at my family. I was like, I get that reference. I get that reference. So I ran up to him afterwards, and I was like, hey, dude. Wild Stallions is my favorite band. And he's like, oh, you got the reference. So anyone doesn't know that's Bill and Ted's reference. And I got it. So I was really proud of myself.
Sounds like it was a lot of fun celebrating this weekend.
Yeah, it was. It was. It was great. My son, he finished his freshman year and he left there, drove across the state of Virginia to get to Richmond and celebrate.
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