Too many nonspeaking students are present in classrooms without real access. Lisa’s conversation with MCIE Think Inclusive highlights presuming competence, apraxia, and what schools must change now.

#PresumeCompetence #Inclusion
#Education #CommunicationAccess

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Honoring Alice Wong, a powerful voice in disability justice and founder of the Disability Visibility Project. We created this lesson on her work and storytelling this summer—today we’re sharing it free.
Code: DisabilityVisibility
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“The field was finally kind of level.” New open access research co-authored by our founder, Lisa Mihalich Quinn, shares how nonspeaking autistic students experienced inclusion & communication access in virtual learning
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#InclusiveEducation #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Educators and parents often ask: What’s the most important skill for supporting nonspeaking students? The answer might surprise you.

It’s not a prompting technique or an adaptation strategy. It’s trust.

👉 Read here: www.reacheveryvoice.org/single-post/...

Help us support communication access for ALL learners and make a statement with our shirts this school year.

New year, new shirts..

#PresumeCompetence #CommunicationAccess #InclusiveEducation

For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible - A gift article for our community. Access and also privacy concerns? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

We're so proud of our student and extraordinary artist, Charles @cllunnart.bsky.social.

Read more in this feature in the @washingtonpost.com.

If you're in the DC area, we hope to see you at the opening of his show Saturday, May 17, 7-10pm at Lost Origins Gallery in Mt. Pleasant, DC

Hey those awesome @communicationfirst.bsky.social First "Speech Does Not Make Someone More Human" tees are available for a brief time only: Get your “Jordyn Zimmerman @jordynbzim.bsky.social tee” today! Available only until March 24!

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Join us on February 12 at 9:30 AM PT / 12:30 PM ET for a Disability Community Briefing on #TexasvBecerra — a lawsuit that threatens #Section504. Section 504 is a crucial disability rights law that ensures equal access to schools, healthcare, and more.

Register: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This guide is designed to accompany @communicationfored.bsky.social ‘s online course, but it can also act as a powerful stand alone resource, giving you tools to navigate many topics that impact the communication and education of nonspeaking, minimally speaking, and unreliably speaking learners.

Today in Hell Yes, Research! and also Journalists, Take Note:

Autistic people in North America consistently prefer the term "autistic" compared to "person with autism"—and also dislike/don't use functioning labels like "high-" or "low-functioning autism."

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... #autism

"When you look like a typical person and speak like one too the world looks at you with more respect.

I might look typical at first glance and my mouth speaks words, but almost never the words that are in my mind.
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This past fall our director Lisa Mihalich Quinn joined the Maryland State Department of Education to talk communicative competence and how we can remove roadblocks keeping our #AAC users and #nonspeaking learners from accessing #InclusiveEducation.

“My speech goes beyond what I think of as unreliable. To me it is reliably annoying.” Our student Nick shares why AAC is crucial to his being understood.

#PresumeCompetence #ActuallyAutistic #CommunicationAccess

“Until I learned to type my thoughts, the whole world believed my capacity to think and learn was far gone. Now that I can show otherwise my life is becoming more full.