Families of nonspeaking autistic children are making cross-country treks for a controversial promise: that a simple letter ...
Raising a profoundly autistic child is difficult. While media depictions of autism tend to focus on the least impaired—those with above-average intelligence and ultimately endearing levels of social ...
“Once I sluggishly died to the idea of talking, my mind was free to roam.” Those words begin a poem written by Richie Specht, 27, using what is known as the Rapid Prompting Method (RPM). The poem was ...