S2C Supplemental Resources
Whether you are already on your S2C journey, about to begin, or unsure of where to start, the supplemental resources below can help enrich the life of your minimal, unreliable, or non-speaker.
Spelling Boards
Before buying your spelling boards, work with your registered practitioner to best determine the size and kind of board that will best fit your speller’s needs.
Your speller will progress to different types of boards over time. Your registered practitioner will know which boards to order after a few sessions.
Click the buttons to check two online stores that sell boards and stencils for kind and availability.
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Spelling Resources
The International Association for Spelling as Communication, aka I-ASC (pronounced “I-ask”), is a global organization of individuals from the nonspeaking and neurodivergent community. We seek to make spelling and the relevant supports accessible to every person who is unable to use speech as a reliable means of communication, regardless of geography, age, socio-economic or educational status.
Growing Kids Therapy Center provides in-person and virtual Spelling to Communicate services for families with non, minimal and hesitant speakers.
Communication 4 All is a non-profit that provides education, advocacy, and resources to support non, hesitant, and unreliable speakers so they can learn spelling and typing. Their website includes a free online typing academy.
SPELLERS Freedom Foundation is a non-profit that provides access to, education, and advocacy for spelling for non, hesitant, and unreliable speakers through a variety of initiatives including a documentary film, spelling centers, and online connection groups.
Based in Oceanside, CA, the Spellers Center-San Diego (formerly Transcending Apraxia) is a robust learning center where nonspeakers come to learn the Spellers Method as well as participate in group lessons and social events.
Based in Tampa, FL, the Spellers Center-Tampa (formerly Interplay Therapy Center) is a robust learning center where nonspeakers come to learn the Spellers Method as well as participate in group lessons & social events.
In Underestimated: An Autism Miracle, Generation Rescue’s cofounder J.B. Handley and his teenage son Jamison tell the remarkable story of Jamison’s journey to find a method of communication that allowed him to show the world that he was a brilliant, wise, generous, and complex individual who had been misunderstood and underestimated by everyone in his life.
Jamison’s remarkable transformation challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding autism, a disability impacting 1 in 36 Americans. Many scientists still consider nonspeakers with autism—a full 40 percent of those on the autism spectrum—to be “mentally retarded.” Is it possible that the experts are wrong about several million people? Are all the nonspeakers like Jamison?
The Spellers Guidebook is the first of its kind—a comprehensive guidebook that every family should take along for their Spelling journey. From the moment you first learn about spelled communication through working with a practitioner, developing fluency, and everything in between, this book serves as a blueprint to follow while you build the skills to spell openly with your child.
The journey toward open communication differs for every family, and this handbook is here to help remove any guesswork. Whether your path seems straight and easy to navigate or the road ahead appears winding and twisting, Dana and DM are here to guide you. If you walk away with nothing more than the confidence that you can do this with your nonspeaker (because you CAN), The Spellers Guidebook has done its job!
As the film opening asks, “What if we’ve been wrong…about every single one of them?” SPELLERS answers that question, in convincing fashion, through the stories of eight nonspeakers—Aydan, Evan, Sid, Maddie, Jamie, Vince, Cade, and Elizabeth—who all found their voice through the miraculous process of using a letterboard to communicate their thoughts and feelings. As Jamie explains, “we think, feel, and learn just like everyone else.”
At The Hirsch Academy, students bring a variety of sensory, regulation, learning, and communication differences. The scope of differences we support is broad, reflecting the diverse nature of our neurodiverse world.
Teva Community is a nonprofit creating safe, supported living for nonspeaking autistic people on 35 acres of beautiful national forest, just five miles from downtown Prescott, Arizona.
CrimsonRise envisions a world where autistic people have the support they need in every sphere of life; a world where they can come together with allies to create and sustain an inclusive and enriching environment for all.
