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“Can My Child Ever Learn to Speak?” Authentic Communication and Autistic People

January 14, 2019 • By Ann Memmott

Trust that your autistic child can thrive alongside others, whether with spoken words, or not. Do not be afraid to tell the next salesperson, arriving with a false horror story about how your child will never achieve anything without their ‘Patented Treatment,’ that you have more confidence in your child than they do.

Everything Is Always Shifting and Inconsistent: Autism, Language, and Listening

April 7, 2016 • By M. Kelter

“It’s hard a lot of the time to know what I’m supposed to be paying attention to, what’s relevant to that particular conversation. I have to sift through all of the data and consciously keep track of what matters, and what doesn’t.”

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Do Me a Favor

February 7, 2014 • By Christine Stephan

I regret that I didn’t give my non-speaking son the opportunities to display an interest in things that I assumed he wouldn’t understand. I regret that my assumptions limited him when they should have been expanding his world.