S.T.A.R. - Supported Typing & Autism Resources

01/27/2020

Looking for HOPE for your struggling communicator? There is still time to join us tomorrow evening in Rancho Bernardo for our Chapter Meeting. RSVP here 👉🏼 https://tacanow.org/local-chapters/west/california/san-diego/

01/23/2020

Looking forward to this movie!!

The 2020 Sundance Film Festival will host the world premiere of a new documentary about the joys and challenges of living with autism. Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, ...

12/16/2019

Look out world — Santa is on the letterboards! This young AAC user wanted to visit with Santa, but spelled, “AM TOO SCARED.” Santa took the board and spelled, “I LOVE YOU.” Santa gets it! Yay Santa!

12/03/2019

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!

10/02/2019

The Spectrum of Opportunity Author celebration is going to be epic! 🎉

08/17/2019

When non-speaking autistics are given tools and choices for ways to communicate, to express themselves, they are empowered to become the authors of their own narratives. In doing so, they remove f…

07/24/2019

In order to invalidate the words and language of those who require a communication partner, opponents cling to logical fallacies to justify ableism.

04/24/2019

The new system, described on Wednesday in the journal Nature, deciphers the brain’s motor commands guiding vocal movement during speech — the tap of the tongue, the narrowing of the lips — and generates intelligible sentences that approximate a speaker’s natural cadence.

A prosthetic voice decodes what the brain intends to say and generates (mostly) understandable speech, no muscle movement needed.

04/08/2019

Yea Otto and Shelley!!!! Such a great article!
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2019-04-03/teen-with-autism-turns-a-page-in-his-ottobiography?fbclid=IwAR2LnQ0dvk4ly1JBkuo3MNUzZ4wCtXNcOnTiZHjVpjCICXQs_c-UFq8tgpU

04/03/2019

Im going to keep this short, I’m tired and low on spoons I have been for a while now, I mean low on spoons but I wanted to get something o...