Video: “I Want To Say” – New Technology Helps Autistics Communicate
Watch I Want to Say to see how new technology improves the quality of life for autistic students. ‘I Want to Say’ is a 27-minute documentary short that tells the story of Hacking Autism, a newly adopted Autism Speaks initiative devoted to unlocking the voices of children with autism through technology. The film sprang from…
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Typers Hold Panel Discussion After Screening of Wretches & Jabberers
This past Sunday afternoon, a screening of Gerardine Wurzburg’s movie Wretches & Jabbers was held at the Brownsburg Public Libarary. The movie, released in 2011, is about the international efforts of Tracy Tresher and Larry Bisonnette to promote supported typing as a method of communication for nonverbal autistic individuals, as well as to connect with…
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Hacking Autism: Developing Technology to Unlock Voices of Children with Autism
Hacking Autism, an Autism Speaks initiative sponsored by Hewlett-Packard (HP,) is devoted to unlocking the voices of children with autism through technology. Hacking Autism seeks to facilitate and accelerate technology-based ideas to help give those with autism a voice. When touch-enabled computing was introduced to the world, no one could have anticipated that this technology…
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Demonstrating the Validity of Facilitated Communication in the “Real” World
Live Validation Test of Facilitated Communication: Marlena (aka theaacjournalist) performs a live test to help demonstrate and validate how FC works: Marlena Katene, aka theaacjournalist, is a budding music journalist who uses Facilitated Communication (FC) to talk to the outside world. As both a journalist and an active advocate for Facilitated Communication, Marlena travels…
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David’s Facilitated Communication Evaluation
This fascinating video shows David, a young non-verbal autistic boy, working with a trained facilitator (possibly for the first time, although that is not made clear) to communicate with his mother. To the uninitiated, it may well look like the trainer is moving David’s arm, but watch closely and you will see her lift her…
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Chammi Rajapatirana
Typing for over a decade, Chammi Rajapatirana is currently living in Sri Lanka where he and his mom, the only FC trainers in the area, are helping others learn the method. Chammi is also co-founder/co-president of the E.A.S.E. Foundation, which aims to help people with disabilities in leading productive, stimulating lives, particularly through effective…
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Wretches & Jabberers – A Documentary Film About Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette
Wretches & Jabberers, a documentary film directed by Gerardine Wurzburg, is about two men with autism who embarked on a global journey to help others with autism break through their isolation. With limited speech, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, both faced lives of mute isolation in mental institutions or adult disability centers. When…
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Tim Chan
Watch Video of Tim Chan’s FC Typing Progress Tim Chan is an 18 year old Australian with autism and very little speech. As a result of Facilitated Communication Training provided by Dr Rosemary Crossley, he first began typing several years ago at age nine. Initially, Tim needed wrist support from a communication partner– and…
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Sue Rubin, Independen Typer
Sue Rubin is a 34 year-old woman with autism who was considered mentally retarded as a child. At the age of thirteen, Sue learned to express herself through the use of a computer keyboard. Facilitated Communication / supported typing revealed that Sue was in fact highly intelligent. Sue went on to study history, specializing in…
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Kayla Takaguchi
Watch Kayla’s Voice: Empowering People with Autism More and more people are discovering the value of Facilitated Communication. In this video you will watch as Kayla Takeuchi, a non-speaking adolescent with autism, presents her keynote address at Syracuse University’s Facilitated Communication Institute in July 2009. You will also hear from professionals in the field,…
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Another Example of Government Bureaucracy Disrupting an Autistic Child’s Development
It often seems that government bureaucracy hinders, rather than helps, non-traditional treatments for autistic and other disabled children. Yet another glowing example of this phenomenon reared its head last week, when the Orlando Sentinel reported that J.J. Hart, an autistic 3-year-old may not be able to keep the three chickens that his parents brought home…
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Landmark Forum: Bringing Positive, Permanent Shifts to the Quality of Life
In January of 2012, typer John Smyth attended The Landmark Forum, a three-day program designed to bring about positive, permanent shifts in the quality of one’s life. The seminar was a real turning point for John in his development of communication skills with the outside world, as he described in An Amazing Autism Story: In…
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Master Trainer Training Conference April 26-27, 2014 in Central Indiana
View Larger Map / Driving Directions Saved By Typing, with seed-grant support from Answers for Autism, is presenting a Master Trainer Training Conference in Central Indiana: Date: April 26 – 27, 2014 Time: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM each day Location: Hamilton South Eastern High School at 13910 East 126th St, Fishers, Indiana 46037 (Google…
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See for Yourself How Supported Typing Allows Nonverbal Autistics to Communicate
All the Evidence You Need Typers in Action: While in some circles, supported typing is looked upon with a strong helping of cynicism and disbelief, we believe the proof, as they say, is in the pudding. Watch the videos below and see for yourself what this amazing people have managed to accomplish. If…
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TASH: Advocates for Equity, Opportunity & Inclusion for People with Disabilities
For more than 35 years, TASH, an international leader in disability advocacy, has been a leading advocate for human rights and inclusion for people with significant disabilities and support needs – those most vulnerable to segregation, abuse, neglect and institutionalization. Their website, TASH.org, offers a variety of information and resources for parents of children with…
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