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SpeechScience is a growing source of accessible, evidence-based information intended to be available to everyone: Clinicians, educators, parents, and anyone else with the need to learn more about communication sciences and disorders.

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  • Following FreeSpeech: Behind The Scenes In The Creation Of A New App For Language Learning

    "In American culture, the currents of fear and compassion run side by side. It's easy for people to look over the boundary from "neurotypical" into "neurodiverse" - to come from a position of ability and peer into disability - and to feel sorry, to feel sad. It seems to be a lot harder to really enter into the world in which I work voluntarily [...] That means we have a lot of brilliant, educated, wealthy entrepreneurs who work in Silicon Valley and donate to education causes, but not a ton of them quit their jobs in Silicon Valley to move back to India and develop AAC because they feel compelled to serve."

  • Blurred Lines: Finding New Ways to Serve Children with Developmental Disabilities

    In the traditional model, "therapy" in some form is the extracurricular activity of the neurodiverse. There are soccer moms and karate dads, but then there are occupational therapy moms and speech therapy dads. There are children who go learn how to swim in a pool, and children who go learn how to swim through the foreign waters of participation in daily life. There's a big unasked question here: What, really, are we trying to teach?

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