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Apple Celebrates Autism Acceptance Month with “Dillan’s Voice”
Autistic high school student Dillan Barmache, has so much to say and
Autistic high school student Dillan Barmache, has so much to say and
I told Professor Wurzburg's class in March and April about
My body movement speed is not average. It is not
For over ten years Martin Pistorius was trapped in his own body, fully cognizant, but unable to speak or move. He was surrounded by people who believed he was incapable of thinking and tried desperately to get just one person to notice. His story serves as a wake-up call for all of us to drastically change our assumptions about speech and intellectual capacity as well as the need to radically reform expectations and treatment of people with complex communication needs.
One of the simplest things you can do to improve
Explore the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) Website to
Accessibility is a right not a privilege. 20 posts
We hope all kids are learning to code. If they aren't being taught programming skills in school, there are so many great sites that can help them get started today.
‘Tis the season and we've teamed up with MyVoice for
Dr. Caroline Musselwhite addresses the topic of overall good literacy
In 2009, I published an article in The Reading Teacher
PrAACtical Suggestions: 5 Ways to Elicit Language Without Asking a
Modeling AAC Style - This is a strategy that is
" A lot of these kids end up not reaching their full potential because they suffer from low expectations. People think they don't speak well, so we shouldn't have them in the regular classroom, but a lot of the kids I work with, they're cognitively fine. They're perfectly capable. They just need a viable means of communication to really help them through that." Cathy Binger
Barb Rentenbach's funny, poignant and beautiful must-read book, I Might Be You: An Exploration of Autism and Connection, is now available as an audiobook.
PrAACtical AAC's latest post on the importance of presuming competence.
One of our favorite resources for all things AAC!
Not all people begin life with disabilities, but most of
Always Keep in Mind the Learning Goal and Keep the Challenge Where It Belongs
Pat Mervine has a great website and is the author
CAST released two innovative, research-based educational games that teach essential math reasoning and problem-solving skills.
Great video on Kathleen McClaskey's Scoop It site, UDL- Universal Design for Learning about accessible instructional materials.
RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — The seventh grade has been a
New Orleans, LA Â Jennifer Lentz, PhD, Assistant Professor of
We love Ido In Autismland, a blog by Ido a young autistic advocate who types to communicate.
December 20, 2012. Today several deaf and hard of hearing
A multimedia feature published earlier in December in the New
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The purpose of this study was to investigate fourteen African
We often get questions about the legality of using a