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05/06/2026

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03/06/2026

Meaning making beautifully constructed with and for A. The North Star and the Compass - blog sharing how Pictello really helps gives access to concepts and language for shared understanding and self expression

03/06/2026

This is a great book about self determination and self advocacy! See a chance to get hold of a copy for your neurodivergent young person with AUsome Training

02/06/2026

Training normative attention doesn't help neurodivergent children learn or make friends. Why is this still happening in education?

02/06/2026

Autistic SLT and I advocate against normative practices that seek to "train" autistic children to have quiet bodies, suppress communication, and prioritise compliance over understanding. We know a great deal about the hidden harms associated with these approaches.

More importantly, when our focus is on compliance, we miss valuable opportunities to support autistic children to develop a confident neurodivergent identity, autonomous communication, bodily autonomy, and meaningful participation in education.

Children deserve environments that help them understand themselves, trust themselves, communicate authentically, and experience acceptance as they are—not because they have learned to appear less autistic.

I’m Emily, an Autistic Speech and Language Therapist in Greater Manchester, UK. I provide neurodivergent-affirming speech and language therapy for autistic children, teens and adults, supporting communication in a way that respects neurodivergence. I combine lived experience with clinical expertis...

28/05/2026

Nice recommendation for books at home - affirming authentic identity NeuroWild

27/05/2026

It"s necessary that we learn more about spelling and motor based communication support. Lived experience and practice is showing us already that this is what allowed some nonspeakers a route to autonomous communication.-.to say what they want.

Whether they stand at the extremes of “infallible autism therapy that uncovers secret powers in everyone” or “only delusional people buy the s**t they’re selling,” people at both ends of the facilitated spelling for nonspeaking autistics discussion refuse to see the evident but unsettled middle ground.

By Emily Willingham in the latest TPGA Newsletter, link in comments.



[image: Graphic with a turquoise background.

Text reads, "When it comes to Facilitated Spelling as a communication method for nonspeaking autistic people, we need rigorous research—not polemics, personal attacks, and problematic papers by ultraskeptics with conflicts of interest."

Underneath is a photo of a communication letterboard via .

Next, text reads, "by Emily Willingham
in the latest TPGA newsletter"

In the lower left corner, smaller text reads, "
tinyurl.com/FacilitatedTPGA"

The TPGA logo is in the lower right corner.]

25/05/2026

Disabled Children's Partnership