Iowa Public Radio “David James ‘DJ’ Savarese is a poet, prose writer, and recent alumni of Oberlin College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in Anthropology and Creative Writing. He is also autistic and nonspeaking. DJ shares his story through the new documentary Deej, which just received a Peabody Award and […]
Ventura County Star (California) Ten-year-old Camarillo, California author Diego Peña, who communicates by typing on an iPad and by pointing to letters on a letterboard, speaks at Ventura College for the 2018 Diversity in Culture Festival about his best-selling book on Amazon, Anatomy of Autism. “It is the lifeline to love, friendship, needs and success,” […]
On February 2-3, 2018, a group of 7 nonspeaking autistics from Growing Kids Therapy Center (a.k.a. “The Tribe”) and 18 University of Virginia undergraduates gathered in Charlottesville to discuss, among other things, what role empathy and compassion should play in creating welcoming communities.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — Twenty-one-year-old California resident Ido Kedar says, “My mom and dad found me a teacher who taught me to type independently. Then it became really hard for the experts to refute. But it took time to get to this level of proficiency.” Read the article: https://bit.ly/2I4xYif
The Daily Cal (California) Column in daily student newspaper of the University of California Berkeley by junior Hari Srinivasan about his journey to and experience at UC Berkeley so far as a nonspeaking autistic student, and that of fellow nonspeaking autistic student David Teplitz. Hari types to communicate, which he learned at the age of […]
The Daily Cal (California) UC Berkeley student staff writer for The Daily Cal student newspaper, Hari Srinivasan, is nonspeaking and communicates by typing. In this piece, he explains his neurology and characterizes intelligence in terms of “input” and “output” systems. “We autistics may yet surprise you, and we have a lot to contribute to society. […]
This Peabody Award-winning documentary tells the story of DJ Savarese, a nonspeaking autistic young man who types to communicate. DJ graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Oberlin College in 2017. The documentary covers DJ’s educational journey from being fully included in his local public high school in Iowa, to college in Ohio, and provides a window into his daily personal and emotional life. DJ starred in and co-directed the documentary to help promote access and inclusion for other nonspeaking individuals. It premiered on the PBS World Channel in fall 2017.
Unspoken is a self-portrait of New York City-based autistic teenager Emma Zurcher-Long. Emma, who communicates by typing, co-directed the documentary and is a frequent presenter at national conferences. Her writing can be found at https://emmashopebook.com.
Time (Japan) Time magazine interviews Naoki Higashida, author of The Reason I Jump and Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8, about what it is like to be a person with nonspeaking autism. “My basic methods of communication are my letter board and computer. The letter-board method involves a card with the alphabet arranged in […]
Staten Island Real-Time News (New York) Nineteen-year-old autistic Staten Island resident Nicholas D’Amora communicates with a QWERTY letterboard. “‘It has to be at their appropriate level; you have to assume competence, but this is just a teaching method. The communication is later on. It takes time, patience, persistence, and trust on their part to know […]