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Non-speaking autistic teenagers ask for a regular curriculum

by Tania Melnyczuk | 24 Feb 2019 | Diary

Here are Ben McGann (now a board member of ASAN and of the Nonspeaking CommUnity Consortium) with Huan Vuong and best friend Emma Budway in 2015, advocating for the right to a regular academic curriculum rather than ‘special ed’. They communicate using Spelling to Communicate (S2C).

 

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