Posts Tagged ‘nonspeaking autistic students’

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

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...

Very Great Sound: The Case for Teaching Poetry to Nonspeaking Autistic Students

Last April, I found myself in a Stockholm studio, sitting next to my college buddy Spencer Reece, with whom I'd taken my first creative writing course forty-three years ago—our teacher was the Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard. We had traveled to Sweden to teach our own creative writing...