Featured, Spelling to Communicate
What is S2C? S2C stands for Spelling to Communicate, but what does that mean, exactly? Spelling to Communicate teaches individuals with motor challenges the purposeful motor skills necessary to point to letters to spell as…
Education, Uncategorized, nonspeaking
If you haven’t already ready parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, please read them first, as they provide a foundation for understanding a Growth Mindset. In this final post, we will get more concrete about how we can encourage and empower Spellers with these tools. One of the most powerful ways to employ…
Education, Uncategorized, nonspeaking
The term “Growth Mindset” was coined by Stanford Psychology Professor and Researcher Carol Dweck. Her research with children illuminated astounding implications about how the mental frameworks we use affect everything we do. Now, when a person is in the process of succeeding at something, the mindset they have will not necessarily be apparent. In the…
Education, Uncategorized, nonspeaking
One evening in the Fall of 2014 – years before I had any idea that life would take me in the direction of working with nonspeakers and motor-coaching them for communication – my mind was blown with a new concept: The Growth Mindset. My own three children were all in elementary school and we had…
Stress is a natural part of life, though it may take different forms for different people. Stress is like a tiger trying to chase you. The tiger doesn’t care who you are. It is just looking for a snack. You also can’t outrun a tiger, so it is going to catch up to you sooner…
Autistic individuals are the true autism experts. Matthew Lager’s TASH Talk debunking the myths of non-verbal autism is a must read for anyone who has an autistic child or works with autistic individuals. Matthew uses a letterboard and keyboard to spell to communicate. He prepared this presentation for the 2016 TASH conference with his mother…
