It is because of Soma Mukhopadhyay and her son, Tito, that thousands of nonspeaking and minimally speaking autistic people around with world have access to reliable communication.
Skeptics have long tried to create doubt about the capacity for nonspeaking autistics who use spelling to communicate, but new research using eye tracking software proves agency.
Sharing opinions shouldn’t be a privilege, but for autistic people without access to the right communication tools, sharing opinions is not an option. Trevor wants that to change.
For most of his life, until he started typing, E was identified as a “low-functioning autistic.” These are his thoughts on function labels.
Editor’s Note: Anti-autistic Wikipedia editors have long been vandalizing and rewriting the narrative around autism and neurodiversity, with the most aggressive editing directed at non-speaking
I believe that those of us with platforms are obliged to share the words of non-speakers and seek their input whenever possible. We can’t do what the “anti-neurodiversity” crowd does; we can’t argue over whose voice is more acceptable.
Anti-autistic editors at Wikipedia have gotten many autistic pages removed from the site because they take issue with the way they learned to communicate. We are republishing the pages in protest.
Autistic people are often aggressively erased from their own narratives. One such measure of erasure is the vandalism and deletion of articles on Wikipedia.org
I am a nonspeaking teen who types to communicate. I learned to communicate this way when I was nine years old. This was the year
There were a couple of things that spurred my dive into research regarding facilitated communication (FC) and other methods of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC).
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