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Nonspeakers, parents, practitioners, and leadership contribute to the I-ASC blog. Articles contain personal insights, opinions, ideas, and experiences about being a nonspeaker or speller, autism, and S2C. We invite you to leave comments and engage in discussions with the author and other readers in a positive way sharing knowledge to help build our online community.

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Travel Tips For Terrific Trips

Fundraising Effort Goes the Extra Mile!

Let’s Talk About Love

Happy not S.A.D.

BIPOC Nonspeakers in the Spotlight: An interview with Divyesh Jain about Talking Fingers: Voices of Indian Non-Speaking Autistics

8 Reasons Why We Don’t Compare S2C Progress

Labels Have Sold Nonspeakers Short for Too Long!

Magnificent Motormorphosis

Writing with Creativity and Purpose

LESSONS MAKE S2C EASIER FOR SPELLERS!

When helping becomes holding back

From Intimidation to Advocacy

How to build hand-eye coordination

Communication Equity on All Our Brave Hearts

The 4 Rs of S2C: The Cornerstone of Ethical and Best Practice

Diversity Training Inspires I-ASC Leadership!

The Difference Between Coaching and Influencing

How do families of nonspeakers learn about spelling?

Let’s Educate Our Healthcare Professionals

Jumpstarting the New Year with Motor Goals

The Intersection of Race and Communication Access: A Critical Look at Equity

What Every Nonspeaker Wants Their Doctor to Know

Slow and Steady Wins

Don't Call Me That

4 Tips for Selecting the Perfect S2C Lesson Topic

Navigating summer heat: Challenges and Coping Strategies for Neurodivergent Individuals

5 Things Nonspeaking Autistics Want Their Teacher To Try This Year

Getting Too Close To The Sun

Game Play For Spellers

Achieving Our Goals, One Step at a Time

Embracing Our Experiences

Learning In Groups

Why we use Lessons in S2C

A Whole New World

The Importance of Caregiver Involvement and Training a CRP

Littles: Tips for Practitioners and Parents

Positively Neuroplastic

Synesthesia and the Food Adventure

The Luck of the Irish

The Power of Perspective: Challenging Assumptions About Nonspeaking Autism Through Writing

What Makes a Good S2C Practitioner?

Making Good Trouble

A Self-Love Ritual for Valentine's Day 🫶 Motor Activity

The Lost and Found Department of Regulation

New Beginnings in 2024

Top 10 Myths about S2C* Debunked

Board Progression in S2C

Two CRPs are Better than One

10 reasons to be thankful: from nonspeaking autistic adults

Prepared But Not Anticipating

The Dos and Don’ts of Communicating with a Speller - Part 2

10 Dos and Don’ts of Communicating with a Speller

SELF ADVOCACY FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Thanks with S&A

Having Autism On Thanksgiving

Apraxia Is No Joke

Voting 101

Wash, Rinse… DON’T Repeat (Lessons)

The Speech Mechanism Part 4: The Articulators- Making Sound into Speech

Ways in Which We Are Underestimated

Learning for All

Move Your Body, Be a Hottie

Nurturing Authentic Communication with Responsibility and Respect

Be Brave

Love Letters, A True-ly Short Epistolary Romance: Sofi's Story

A Hipster Love of Music

Inclusive Journeys: Strategies for Traveling with Nonspeakers

News from Motormorphosis 2023!

Let’s Change the World Faster: 10 Things I Learned at Motormorphosis 2023

Socializing at Motormorphosis with S&A

The Magic of Motormorphosis

Motormorphosis 2023 - leading conference for the nonspeaking community

Birthdays Make Me Nostalgic

Freedom Is…

COUNT DOWN TO MOTOR UP!

A book makes a wonderful what? LESSON

Serving the World

Beyond Apraxia: Catatonia

Social Media for Advocacy

Presuming Competence, Confidence and Co-Regulation are KEY

Who Decides Which Voices Should Be Heard?

May Tomorrow Be Awake

Rehumanizing Access to Communication

The Worst of Times and the Best of Times

Ground your practice in cognitive lessons!

PROMPT YOUR HEART OUT!

Independence or Autonomy?

Why I am an Advocate for Nonspeakers Like Me

The Realization of What Spelling to Communicate Brings to our Families

What's the Purpose?

Choosing Lesson Topics

Legal Capacity and the Right to Communicate

Getting Started with Spelling to Communicate

C, R, and P

Hopes for 2023

Lets Get Tasting

Spellers Being Held To A Higher Standard

MAKING THE WORLD A PLACE WHERE SPELLERS THRIVE

Silent Holiday

College Bodies

Speech Mechanism Pt. 3 The Resonators: Shaping the Sound

Strategies for First Responders Interacting with Autistics and Nonspeakers

What is S2C? A Spellers Perspective

THINKING THROUGH DYSREGULATION

This Apraxic Nonspeaker’s Advice For My Teachers

Breaking a Stereotype, Not a Leg

Dear Jen

Motormorphosis 2022 Highlights and Reflections

What Advocacy Means to a Late-in-Life Speller

Sexuality and Sex: Another Hard Conversation

The Urgency of Inclusion

Balancing Advocacy With Physical & Mental Wellness

Get Groups Going!

Letters are Everywhere

Being An Advocate On The Nonspeaking Leadership Council

Aiming for Accessibility: Making school work more accessible for your speller

A Dawning Inspiration

Come be a part of Spellers and Allies

Eating Can Be Tricky - I-ASC The Experts

Embrace your Differences

A Shift in Perspective

The Birth of Unrestricted Interest

THE SPEECH MECHANISM: A 4-PART SERIES Part 2: Our Voice, the Larynx

Eric Garcia’s Love Letter to Autistic People

Infinite Possibilities

On ableism and my lived experience

The Speech Mechanism Part 1: Lower Respiratory System

A Conversation on Letterboard Etiquette

Letterboard Etiquette - I-ASC the Experts

STEP-ASIDE: NEURODIVERSITY-FRIENDLY SPACES INCLUDE MOTOR!

Top Tips for Feeding the Brain

Spring into Action at Spring into Spelling 2022

Pressure & Managing Expectations - I-ASC The Experts

Talking Thoughts Moving Finger

Daily Decisions Taken for Granted

Neurodivergent Wellbeing: I-ASC the Experts

A Hard Tomorrow Part #5

Getting to S2C Fluency

A HARD TOMORROW PART #4

An Ideal CRP - I-ASC The Experts

Learning to Love

A Hard Tomorrow Part #3

Our work is not yet ours!

A Hard Tomorrow Part #2

Into the Dawn of Love’s Light

A Hard Tomorrow Part #1

Getting Started with S2C ~ I-ASC the Experts

Strategy to Create a New Beginning

Amelia Bell to Everyone

Have Blessings, Can Travel

Please Listen!

The Loudest Voice of Silence

Confusion in your mind about the term nonspeaking?

Planning an inclusive holiday season

Proving That Anything is Possible:

The Importance of Changing the World One Step at a Time:

In Conversation with I-ASC 4 Star Spellebrity

Motoriety Teach: Food for Thought

Respectful Language for Coaching a Tricky Body!

5 Quick Tips for School & Beyond

Overcoming My Silence by Learning S2C

Eyes on the World Stage

All I Wanna do is Zoom-a-Zoom, Zoom!

Spellebrate! C’mon! Spelltember 2021

TRUE FAITH - THE ABCs of STARTING S2C

A Boy Like Me, a Netflix Series and 2 podcasts

Why do we say Nonspeaking?

THE ELEPHANT IN THE NONSPEAKNG ROOM

Next Adventures

Got Power?

Upside Down...In A Good Way

INTERDEPENDENCE IS GOLD

Neuromedia Summer 2021 Book Recommendations.

FRIENDSHIP SUPPORT, LONG-DISTANCE

How We Think About Disability Matters

Books used to be part of my prison

The Self-Care You Need

Fleeing the world of silence

I WANT TO BE A PAPERBACK READER!

Neuromedia Summer 2021

Words With Friends

An Eye-Opening Experience

Friends Forever

5 Tips for Working with Littles

Curriculum and Lessons Vlog with Lindsay & Kim

Spelling Out What Best Practice Is All About

Becoming Real: The Velveteen Parent/Child Partnership

Brent Sullivan - Navigating Life Like a Champ

Nonspeaking Autistics Can No Longer Show Restraint about Restraints

MOTORIETY? What the hack is that????

Marcus Bolande - Blazing trails in two different countries

An open letter to my son’s skeptics

Be a “Pyg”-The Expectancy Effect & Presuming Competence

The WE Behind CRP

Tylar Buchling - Gentle Patience & Kindness

Purposeful Motor String Art

Staying the Course

Are you kidding? This motor learning is hard!

Be Your Own Fan Club

Gabe Roth-“My Life in Someone Else’s Body”

Damon Kirsebom - A True Influencer

The Autistic Mind Finally Speaks!

The Glow You Need This Holiday Season!

Deepak George - An Ambassador

Arun Chand - A brilliant mind jumping through hurdles of being underestimated

Anna Napolitano - Fierce, Smart, and Enthusiastic about Advocacy

Gratitude: More Than Just an Attitude

Akha Khumalo - Wishing every autistic person could have one wonderful friend

When not to express gratitude

Chandima Rajapatirana - Always advocating for his tribe

Elliot Sylvester - Kind energy in an uproarious package

Joel Nyland - Everyday Advocating for the Spelling Community

Voice Our Vote!

Colin Stein - Never Give Up. Ever!

Inclusion by Design

Noah Seback - An Overcomer with a Tender Heart

Let Me Do It!

Danny Whitty - Four Star Spellebrity

Spelltember 2020

Let Us Spell it Out for You

Biases and how to avoid building the next stereotype

Calling All Spellers to Know Your Rights!

When Life Throws %$@#! at You, Cover it in Glimmer!

Getting Lost in Stories

Neurolit Reading Campaign

Deconstructing Regulation in the times of COVID

Are YOU Represented?

Eye tracking and Brain Imaging Research for Nonspeakers

Met stories

You Go to Learn Mountains

Neuroliterature, Diverse Readers and Our Summer Reading List

The Pedagogy of S2C

Disabled an Important Part of Who I Am

Getting to Know Your Neurodiverse Community

Autistic Reflections On Racism

Loops! I Did It Again!

Belief in Our Nonspeaking Autistic Selves

Titrating Freedom to Exist Truly

Six Things You Should Know about Apraxia

40 Blocks of Love

The Mind of a Hockey Player

Understanding Apraxia: The Importance in Autism and Other Sensory-Movement Disorders

Poetry Thrives in the Nonspeaking Mind

RESILIENCE: SELF CARE IN THE AGE OF COVID-19

Talk Therapy

Motor & the Art of Anxiety Regulation

Supporting Regulation and Purposeful Motor: A Mindful Approach

How to Be an Ally to Nonspeaking People

Hope is AALIVE at Inside Voice

15 Strategies for the Preparation & Peace of Mind

Shifting Perceptions & Paradigms on Self-regulation

Anxiety: Don’t Worry, Know your Brain!

Ten Ways to Presume Competence in Nonspeaking Kids and Adults

Connected through Friendship

Feeling the Love: Brain Science is Relationship Science!

Co-Regulation: The Physiology of Trust

Coming of Age with Autism

My New Life with Communication

The Reason I Jump

“MOM THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME LIVE MY LIFE NOW”

5 Ways to Increase Accessibility During the Holidays

Advocating for Love and Kindness

Invasion of the Body Engagers