When ‘States’ Rights’ Threaten Disability Protections for Our Kids
Parents of kids with disabilities, especially those with non-speaking, minimally speaking, or unreliably speaking children, need to pay close attention to a federal lawsuit making waves right now. It’s about a rule change to the Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and while the surface issue is the inclusion of gender dysphoria as […]
The Rise of Alternative Intelligence: Why I No Longer Call It Artificial Intelligence
For as long as AI has existed, we’ve called it Artificial Intelligence—a term that has always carried a certain connotation. Artificial implies something fake, something less than, something that isn’t quite real. We don’t call an artificial heart a real heart. We don’t call artificial sweeteners real sugar. Artificial is always seen as the substitute, […]
Reclaiming Enlightenment: ‘I Think, Therefore I Am’ in the Age of Inclusion
This foundational concept of Enlightenment thinking is often unacknowledged or misunderstood when it comes to certain groups, especially non-speakers and many autistic individuals.
Why the Double Standard? Healthcare Risks Are Accepted, But Non-Speakers Are Denied a Voice
Why does the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) label communication methodologies like Spelling to Communicate (S2C) as “dangerous,” denying countless non-speaking students the chance to participate in their education?
