I am an autistic with apraxia, which affects my ability to speak. These are the top 10 things I wish people knew about apraxic non-speakers.
If you haven’t seen the Peabody Award-winning film, Deej, about nonspeaking student DJ Savarese, then you need to!
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.
Nonspeaker Trevor on the aftermath of an autistic meltdown: “The moment my consciousness begins to return from wherever it fled during my meltdown, I am horrified with what transpired.
After gaining access to communicate his thoughts through typing, one of Trevor’s first requests was for a cool haircut. And it was great. But sometimes, Trevor has trouble getting his mind and body to work in sync.
For most of his life, until he started typing, E was identified as a “low-functioning autistic.” These are his thoughts on function labels.
Ashna and William are autistic teens who can speak, but the words that come or are often unreliable. They communicate more accurately by spelling to communicate via the rapid promoting method.
Trevor, a nonspeaking teen, was worried about attending his first ballgame in a stadium. He was afraid of the noise and sensory overload. Here’s how it went.
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
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.