Thinking Through Dysregulation THIS GUIDE TO THINKING THROUGH DYSREGULATION WAS PREPARED FOR THE MOTORMORPHOSIS 2022 PARENT NETWORKING COFFEE BY LAKSHMI RAO SANKAR AND DEBBIE SPENGLER, I-ASC LEADERSHIP CADRE  When a speller is becoming dysregulated, it’s important to remember the common thread that dysregulation holds for all of us. Because when it comes down to it, the […]

Sexuality and Sex: Another Hard Conversation by Noah Seback Nonspeakers and sexuality. Nonspeakers and sex. Can these be mentioned in the same sentence?  Is this an oxymoron?  Did I read that correctly?  Yes!  I’m a nonspeaking autistic broaching the subject of sex and sexuality as it relates to our population. This topic is too rarely […]

The Urgency of Inclusion I spent the last weekend in July wrestling with a torrent of strong emotions:  unexpected optimism about the future, the deep sense of comfort and belonging that comes from being in a truly inclusive environment, and a profound sense that all of us, starting with me, need to participate more actively […]

Words With Friends As a young child, I knew that I was different. But I didn’t understand why or how. What I did see, too clearly, was that other kids didn’t want to have anything to do with me. And that crushed me. I had my loving sisters, but I still felt so rejected and […]

Gabe Roth-“My Life in Someone Else’s Body”  Gabe Roth is an unreliable speaker, a well-known and loved friend and student at Invictus Academy in Tampa, and a Spellebrity nominee in the “Dauntless” category-a designation that certainly fits this guy! His nominator described him as someone that deserves positive recognition for how hard he works on […]

ZEKWANDE MATHENJWA – An advocate for others like me I had the absolute pleasure to sit down with Zekwande from South Africa to learn more about him and his journey as a nonspeaker with Spelling to Communicate. I quickly learned that he had a wicked sense of humor and I realized that he is definitely […]

Danny Whitty – Four Star Spellebrity I-ASC has declared September as SPELLTEMBER. A month to recognize and spellebrate the hardest working people we know, nonspeaking people who spell and type! We put out a call for nominations and were so delighted to receive nominations for spellers across the globe. Some spellers nominated themselves, others were […]

Biases and how to avoid building the next stereotype A history of bias building Donald Gray Triplett, the first person to be diagnosed as Autistic by Leo Kanner turned 77 in 2010. This was as recorded in the Oct 2010 issue of The Atlantic, ‘Autism’s First Child’. He is 87 this year. Leo Kanner came […]

Getting Lost in Stories Reading has been my haven for some time now. I get lost in the stories. To me there are few things more enjoyable than a book that you do not want to end. I cannot begin to tell you how my life has changed for the better now that books are […]

A Relish for Research:  Meet the Researchers from the Motormorphosis 2020 Picnic   Change! Nonspeaking, minimally speaking and unreliably speaking individuals are on a transformative quest to synchronize mind and motor. Starting with the development of the motor skills to spell and building to whole body, purposeful movement, this epic transformation can be described as […]