The Right to Learn: One Nonspeaking Autistic Student’s Case for Educational Access and Dignity

• By: Matthew Cramer Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School
• July 9th, 2026
• autism education, educational access, educational rights, inclusion, neurodiversity, nonspeaking autistic students, spelling to communicate, Summer 2026 Issue
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Beginning as a small child, school is where you make friends and learn to process the world around you. Most of modern society is formed on the basis that people have received a formal education. Whether that education be from primary to high school, or onward to a college education, it is presumed...