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Some months ago I shared a video of nonspeaking autistic author Lucy Blackman typing a conference speech. Today I am sharing Lucy's bio at the Brotherhood of the Wordless site. brotherhoodofthewordless.com/our-authors/lu…
Autism at Cal (at UC Berkeley) has elected @HariSri108 as its new president. Hari is the first nonspeaking autist to fulfil this role. uniquelyhari.blogspot.com/2020/05/presid…
Today I'm sharing a poem by nonspeaking autistic poet Imane Boukaila, titled 'In the Quarantine Body'.
#istandwithnonspeakers
explicitliteraryjournal.com/2020/04/26/cov…
This week, WSIU's Associate Director for Radio Jeff Williams interviewed non-speaking author Ido Kedar in his show 'In the Author's Voice'. Listen to the interview here: news.wsiu.org/post/authors-v…
Nonspeaking autist Mitchell Robins talks about a common problem: control issues in people who struggle to communicate. He explains how he got himself used to having to wear a facemask. mitchellslifewithautism.com/2020/04/28/fac…
I shared something by Damon Kirsebom earlier.

Damon is autistic and has severe apraxia, rendering him (mostly) nonspeaking.

He is also a human rights activist.

Here he talks about having the mind of a hockey player.
i-asc.org/the-mind-of-a-…
In the article in the next tweet, researchers used eye-trackers to provide evidence that the participants in their research are not being prompted to give certain answers by the people holding the letterboards; in other words, the non-speakers are spelling their own thoughts.
Go to the last paragraph of the summary to download the videos of the questions and answers by three of the nonspeaking participants. jaswallab.wordpress.com/summary-and-fa…
Nonspeaking autistic artist Jeremy Sicile-Kira writes about the protest in his city in California.

m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…
“To live my life as a human being, nothing is more important than being able to express myself.”

Naoki Higashida
Non-speaking autistic author

#CommunicationFirst #IStandWithNonSpeakers
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My mother and I took more than two hours trying to sew a 3-layered mask from a 2-layer pattern.

We didn't finish.

Come 1 May, Cape Town is gonna have the largest number of fake niqabis the city has ever seen, thanks to modern women being klutzes at traditional skills.
IMPORTANT

Your mask is to protect OTHERS in case YOU are infected and you don't know it.

An infected person in an inferior mask (e.g. loose, single layer) places others at risk.

So if YOU want to be safe from others, you need to help THEM get access to good masks.

#Masks4All
If you are sewing decent 3-layer masks for yourself, sew some for others and give them away for free. Encourage other people to do the same. To reduce the spread of the virus, we need to spread THIS idea virally.
#Masks4All
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Tania Melnyczuk | Autistic Strategies Network
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Will people pay their part-time no-contract domestic servants to not come to work? #CoronavirusInSA
What happens to day labourers - men at the side of the road? #CoronavirusInSA
Who will pay the sex workers to not work? #CoronavirusInSA
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Tania Melnyczuk | Autistic Strategies Network
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I've figured something out. We don't necessarily another service organisation for autists in South Africa, although ALL the service organisations could do with massive improvement (and it doesn't all depend on funding increases).

We need a DISABILITY RIGHTS ORGANISATION.
We need this because existing service organisations are not equipped to deal with human rights violations and in particular, the nature of the abuse that many autistic children and adults experience at the hand of caregivers.
They are not well structured and equipped to lobby for change and they are DEFINITELY not geared towards prosecutions and victim placements.
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