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Nonspeakers, parents, practitioners, and leadership contribute to the I-ASC blog. Articles contain personal insights, opinions, ideas, and experiences about being a nonspeaker or speller, autism, and S2C. We invite you to leave comments and engage in discussions with the author and other readers in a positive way sharing knowledge to help build our online community.

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Move Your Body, Be a Hottie

Nurturing Authentic Communication with Responsibility and Respect

Be Brave

Love Letters, A True-ly Short Epistolary Romance: Sofi's Story

A Hipster Love of Music

Inclusive Journeys: Strategies for Traveling with Nonspeakers

News from Motormorphosis 2023!

Let’s Change the World Faster: 10 Things I Learned at Motormorphosis 2023

Socializing at Motormorphosis with S&A

The Magic of Motormorphosis

Motormorphosis 2023 - leading conference for the nonspeaking community

Birthdays Make Me Nostalgic

Freedom Is…

COUNT DOWN TO MOTOR UP!

A book makes a wonderful what? LESSON

Serving the World

Beyond Apraxia: Catatonia

Social Media for Advocacy

Presuming Competence, Confidence and Co-Regulation are KEY

Who Decides Which Voices Should Be Heard?

May Tomorrow Be Awake

Rehumanizing Access to Communication

The Worst of Times and the Best of Times

Ground your practice in cognitive lessons!

PROMPT YOUR HEART OUT!

Independence or Autonomy?

Why I am an Advocate for Nonspeakers Like Me

The Realization of What Spelling to Communicate Brings to our Families

What's the Purpose?

Choosing Lesson Topics

Legal Capacity and the Right to Communicate

Getting Started with Spelling to Communicate

C, R, and P

Hopes for 2023

2022 is over. So what did I-ASC do?

Lets Get Tasting

Spellers Being Held To A Higher Standard

MAKING THE WORLD A PLACE WHERE SPELLERS THRIVE

Silent Holiday

College Bodies

Speech Mechanism Pt. 3 The Resonators: Shaping the Sound

Strategies for First Responders Interacting with Autistics and Nonspeakers

What is S2C? A Spellers Perspective

THINKING THROUGH DYSREGULATION

This Apraxic Nonspeaker’s Advice For My Teachers

Breaking a Stereotype, Not a Leg

Dear Jen

Motormorphosis 2022 Highlights and Reflections

What Advocacy Means to a Late-in-Life Speller

Sexuality and Sex: Another Hard Conversation

Voting 101

The Urgency of Inclusion

Balancing Advocacy With Physical & Mental Wellness

Get Groups Going!

Letters are Everywhere

Being An Advocate On The Nonspeaking Leadership Council

Aiming for Accessibility: Making school work more accessible for your speller

A Dawning Inspiration

Come be a part of Spellers and Allies

Eating Can Be Tricky - I-ASC The Experts

Embrace your Differences

A Shift in Perspective

The Birth of Unrestricted Interest

THE SPEECH MECHANISM: A 4-PART SERIES Part 2: Our Voice, the Larynx

Eric Garcia’s Love Letter to Autistic People

Infinite Possibilities

On ableism and my lived experience

The Speech Mechanism Part 1: Lower Respiratory System

A Conversation on Letterboard Etiquette

Letterboard Etiquette - I-ASC the Experts

STEP-ASIDE: NEURODIVERSITY-FRIENDLY SPACES INCLUDE MOTOR!

Top Tips for Feeding the Brain

Spring into Action at Spring into Spelling 2022

Pressure & Managing Expectations - I-ASC The Experts

Talking Thoughts Moving Finger

Daily Decisions Taken for Granted

Neurodivergent Wellbeing: I-ASC the Experts

A Hard Tomorrow Part #5

Getting to S2C Fluency

A HARD TOMORROW PART #4

An Ideal CRP - I-ASC The Experts

Learning to Love

A Hard Tomorrow Part #3

Our work is not yet ours!

A Hard Tomorrow Part #2

Into the Dawn of Love’s Light

A Hard Tomorrow Part #1

Getting Started with S2C ~ I-ASC the Experts

Strategy to Create a New Beginning

Amelia Bell to Everyone

Have Blessings, Can Travel

Please Listen!

The Loudest Voice of Silence

Confusion in your mind about the term nonspeaking?

Planning an inclusive holiday season

Proving That Anything is Possible:

The Importance of Changing the World One Step at a Time:

In Conversation with I-ASC 4 Star Spellebrity

Motoriety Teach: Food for Thought

Respectful Language for Coaching a Tricky Body!

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