language (other than AAC)

How parenting A- includes a lot of performing for strangers

Also strollers and wheelchairs and neurodivergence; bad bill; B35 school; flying; saris; Ross Greene and screen time; scale of ABA to...; podcast?

Jun 8

How things can play out for my kid under authoritarianism (and how we all made this happen)

Also texting; love songs; strollers and Medicaid; dad's birthday; AI surveillance; motor planning when mad

May 8

The story never told: How parenting A- sent us into beautiful, life-changing freefall

Also perimenopause, squeezing, comparing, modeling trash, therapy problems, unschooling, non-speaking communication methods

May 2

On love and those buying into "profound autism" and surviving fascism

And ropes, mutual aid, building across difference, strangers, reading, and race

Apr 25

On moving past the “toileting / non-toileting” binary into skills for all autistic kids

Also keyboards speak; Hope canvas; medical models and heteronormativity; more growing; beautiful letter; freedom

Mar 20

A letter from the future.

and laundry is mutual aid, pronunciation, literally finding words

Feb 21

Sooo many types of communication (and AAC) for non-speakers

And fear in ignoring experts; describing our culture; reading to speak; save the ICE hotline number

Feb 7

On going slow and trusting the process

"I can’t separate out the disability justice from the embodiment of it in our day to day lives." And on "more", systemic ableism, neurodiversity…

Jan 20

On a whim I wrote this down thinking A- might like touching the word “can”.

Jan 13

I am Autistic, yes I am Nonspeaking verbal and Yes I use AAC apps to communicate!

by Autistic AAC Underground

Jan 12

How A- expresses novel thoughts.

The other day someone asked me if we choose what Pictellos to make based on what A- says on speak for yourself or P2Go.

Jan 12

On home videos for language development and literacy.

When A- went through his anti-Pictello phase, we started making "home videos" (is that still a term?

Jan 8

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