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…
Autism, Community, Education, Letterboards, Tribe, Uncategorized
For our final week of Summer Institute, our guest lecturers were Meenu and Sarina from the University of Maryland. Meenu and Sarina work together at the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and teach students how to think outside of the box and bring new, interesting ideas to life! After the “getting to know you” portion…
Art, Autism, Communication, Community, Education, Letterboards, Outing, Spelling to Communicate, Uncategorized
GKTC Summer Institute kicked off the summer exploring multimedia journalism: photography, videography, television, and radio. The past two weeks in Summer Institute was all about media in a different context… A R T! Liz Michaels, GKTC’s longterm intern, is also an art instructor and led us in a discussion about types of art: fine art…
Advocacy, Autism, Communication, Communication Partner, Community, Letterboards, neurodiversity, nonspeaking, Uncategorized
I am so excited to introduce Diane Belnavis and Brent Sullivan as guest bloggers! We formed an instant friendship when I met Brent, Diane and Dylan at the TASH Conference in Portland Oregon in November 2015. They have one of the most beautiful stories I have ever heard and it keeps getting better and better…
Chess, Communication, Education, Inclusion, Letterboards, motor control, neurodiversity, nonspeaking, presume competence, Spelling to Communicate, Uncategorized
Hi everyone! My name is Karen Dorula and I’m an occupational therapist at GKTC. Elizabeth has challenged us all to jump onto the blog. I’m very excited to be able to share all of the wonderful chess that has been happening here! I started teaching chess in January 2016 after one of my letterboard clients,…
Autism, Communication, Community, impulses, Letterboards, motor control, nonspeaking, Spelling to Communicate, Uncategorized
Recently, one of our parents asked what to do when her son become grabby and pinchy at home or school. She recognizes that her son has motor control issues and knows that he is not trying to intentionally hurt her but is having trouble reconciling the difference between his intentions and actions. All of our clients…
Atlanta, Autism, Communication, Community, Martin Luther King Day, Spelling to Communicate, Uncategorized
In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, we are reposting this blog from MLK weekend in Atlanta 2 years ago! Wow! It is amazing to see how far along these fantastic spellers and self advocates have come since then! The fight for communication rights is stronger than ever! ~Elizabeth I returned from my second workshop…
