My Top Ten
These are the top 10, now top 18 things I need for teachers, therapists, doctors, friends and family to know.
These are the top 10, now top 18 things I need for teachers, therapists, doctors, friends and family to know.
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.
"Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say". Rosemary Crossley
The purpose of this study was to investigate fourteen African
I see a little girl every week at events that
How do you talk to someone who uses AAC?
Henry Frost had a pretty simple goal: he wanted to go to school like any other kid.
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?
You look at me But you don’t see me You
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.
"Storm" a poem by autistic self-advocate Amy Sequenzia.
"All of these children have one thing in common. They were always having to prove themselves, over and over and over again." Ray Ellis
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 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
About FAAST Our Mission is to improve the quality of life
Amy Sequenzia writes about rejecting society's many labels. Perceptions such as “super spectacular” autistic and “low-functioning” are equally harmful .
Researchers have come up with a device that may enable
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.
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 is a new app, available for Apple and Android
Kate Winslet discusses her inspiration for the Golden Hat Foundation.
MISSION Helping Autism Through Learning and Outreach is a non-profit
Last year Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN wanted to talk
Blog on the topic of assistive technology, eLearning, mind mapping,
The Great Lakes and Pacific ADA Centers on behalf of the ADA National Network are pleased to announce the 2012 Accessible Technology Webinar Series.
"A world where the voice of every child and adult,
I want to live where I feel safe and free
Ralph James Savarese is the author of Reasonable People: A
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Team Hoyt is an inspirational story of a father, Dick
New Voices is a short-term, intensive, individualized educational program for