Building Community and Advocacy: From Voiceless to SEEN and Heard

• By: Ben Crimm SEEN (Spellers Empowering Education for Nonspeakers)
• July 9th, 2026
• AAC, apraxia, autism advocacy, autism education, lived experience, nonspeaking autistic, self-advocacy, spelling to communicate, Summer 2026 Issue
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I got used to being silent. It was the loneliness and being invisible that was soul crushing. Being able to finally say anything I wanted as a nonspeaking autistic with apraxia was liberating. I have never been able to communicate by using my mouth. When I was a child, I did speak a few...