My Top Ten

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These are the top 10, now top 18 things I need for teachers, therapists, doctors, friends and family to know.

My iPad Is Not a Toy

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Please never refer to my iPad as a toy. It is not. It is my voice. Imagine if you could not speak with your mouth how important your iPad voice would be.

An Ethnographic Investigation of African American Mothers’ Perceptions of Augmentative and Alternative Communication

2012-12-15T13:33:15-05:00By |Categories: Articles, Assistive Technology, General|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The purpose of this study was to investigate fourteen African

Use Your Words: Non-Verbal, Speech, and AAC

2015-02-14T16:59:02-05:00By |Categories: Advocacy, Articles, General, Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I see a little girl every week at events that

Autistic Student Wins the Right to Go to School

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Henry Frost had a pretty simple goal: he wanted to go to school like any other kid.

Why is a 13 year old protesting in order to go TO school?

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How did we get here? How did we get to a point that our 13 year old son has to fight for the rights that are already his under federal law? How did we get to a place where a pretty reserved kid has the courage, the will, to do this?

Amy Sequenzia : Friendship and Respect

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It is a mistaken idea that we, autistics, lack empathy. It is also a myth that we are not social. My friends and I, we understand and respect differences. And we understand that we all have a lot to contribute, in a diversity of manners.

Ollibean Talks to Ray Ellis, director of “Certain Proof: A Question of Worth”

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"All of these children have one thing in common. They were always having to prove themselves, over and over and over again." Ray Ellis

Change Leader: Richard Attfield

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Richard Attfield, a contributing author to "Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone", is passionate about the rights of children with disability labels to have equal access to education and communication supports.

Change Leader Questionairre: Richard Attfield

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Change you would you like to see in your lifetime? "The end of discrimination towards children/people with disability labels. And the human right of communication implemented fairly. " Richard Attfield

Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology ( FAAST)

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About FAAST Our Mission is to improve the quality of life

Amy Sequenzia: “Just Me”

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Amy Sequenzia writes about rejecting society's many labels. Perceptions such as “super spectacular” autistic and “low-functioning” are equally harmful .

Change Leader: Larry Bissonette

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Our first Change Leader is artist and disability rights advocate, Larry Bissonnette. Larry's art, writing, presentations, and films are changing perceptions about disability around the world. His quote in Wretches & Jabberers, "More like you than not" says it all.

Outing The Prejudice: Making The Least Dangerous Assumption

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We highly recommend this brilliant article by Zach Rossetti and Carol Tashie on their interpretation of Anne Donnellan's concept of presuming competence, the least dangerous assumption.

MyVoice AAC

2013-12-30T18:14:26-05:00By |Categories: Assistive Technology, Resources, Resources We Love|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

MyVoice is a new app, available for Apple and Android

HALO

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MISSION Helping Autism Through Learning and Outreach is a non-profit

iPad Summer Institute

2016-11-10T10:12:16-05:00By |Categories: Articles, Assistive Technology, General, Inclusive Education, Parenting, Therapies|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Blog on the topic of assistive technology, eLearning, mind mapping,

Ralph James Savarese | essayist, poet, scholar, and activist

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Ralph James Savarese is the author of Reasonable People: A

Sign up and Ollibean gives to a child in Nepal. It’s that easy.

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Want to help kids in Nepal? We’re making it super easy. For every person that joins our community we will donate $2 to support children in Nepal.You can also enter for a chance to win an iPad**. Now share this with everyone you know and show the world how easy it is to make a difference.

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