Who Decides Which Voices Should Be Heard? By: Jennifer Binder-Le Pape Nonspeaking autistics who spell and type to communicate are increasingly being included in the wider community, to everyone’s benefit. You can find them advocating for themselves and their peers with law enforcement agencies, at professional conferences, and with representatives of local, state and federal […]
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May Tomorrow Be Awake By: Joel Nyland If you are interested in learning about neurodivergent thought, I recommend Chris Martin’s book May Tomorrow Be Awake. It is a compilation of his experiences teaching neurodivergents how to use poetry to communicate. He writes about specific spellers and how they evolve as writers. For example, Chris mentions […]
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Rehumanizing Access to Communication By Alexandra Ponsica, PIT I would like to rehumanize the communication needs of a nonspeaker, since semantics seem to be the reason so many nonspeakers cannot access their basic human right to communication in school instead of what the child needs. To put it into perspective, I am a mom to […]
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The Worst of Times and the Best of Times By: Ben Crimm It was an emotional week. The worst of times and the best of times, as Dickens might say. I watched two webinars sponsored by the Drexel University Department of Education that featured multiple presenters who doubt my method of communication – Spelling to […]
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