When Awareness Harms
Let’s talk about needing green minds, eager thinking, waiting for butter to spread onto toast. Let’s talk about excitable pink ideas, ah-ha moments of lovely surprise filling the cavernous space of...
View ArticleThe Fan Stays Off
Seeds there Virulent shoots hamper process ingrates they throw everything into chaos, disruptive and noisy I shout the same thought weeding out the bad from the stillness. Whispering calm directives –...
View ArticlePoetry is Ballet in Words
Poetry is ballet in words. Graceful, agile words, yawning and leaping while whispering and shouting all at once. The ending is the beginning like water colors I had no access to any of it no way to...
View ArticleLife and Expectations
Wading into the world takes achingly long when comparing the expectation with the reality. Vibrant expectations swirl and dance a tempting flurry of ease and take no time to build the skills needed in...
View ArticleEducating Resting Minds (The Documentary: Unspoken)
Educating resting minds means patient repetition of mobile thinking. My mind is lightning fast in a body whose parts often do things that give people a different impression. How best to sway doubting...
View ArticleA Language I am Fluent in
Gazing hungrily at the docking station that cradles my iPhone, I can already hear in my head the first song I will play. It is a charge surging through my body. It’s electric. It’s stars that shower...
View ArticleI am Emma
“What is your name?” someone might ask. It’s a simple question, but when I try to make the sounds that form my name, other words push and shove their way forward. Instead, “you may not spit,” or...
View ArticleCan Speech Challenged Students Get an Appropriate Education?
What would you do if the whimper in your heart could not find the right words to speak? What if you couldn’t control the things you felt compelled to say, even if you knew those who heard you...
View ArticleHave Your Voice Heard!
For my Research and Writing English class this year I have to write a paper on a topic of my choice that weaves data and data analysis with factually based interpretation of that data. My research...
View ArticleMethods of Communication – My Research Paper
“To what extent is it possible to compare the ways in which methods of communication are being taught to autistic students who cannot use spoken language to communicate their complex ideas?”...
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