Kindred Communication
At Kindred Communication, we know how frustrating and overwhelming it can be when you have an unreliably speaking or non-speaking child with autism. We’ve also seen the transformation that can happen when your child is empowered to share their thoughts, feelings, opinions and ideas and respond to you through AAC and spelling. For too many families, access to trained practitioners is the obstacle keeping them and their child from communicating.
Our experienced team of RPM, S2C, and AAC Practitioners, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Speech-Language Pathologists have combined more than 70 years’ experience helping families overcome autism-related communication barriers and differences and achieve relational breakthroughs. Through our virtual AAC instruction that includes S2C and RPM instruction, we will empower you to lead your child and family’s journey to communicating through spelling. And, we’ll be there to support you along the way. Stop spending your days frustrated, searching for an S2C or RPM practitioner and longing to learn what your child thinks and feels. Sign-up for a call today and learn how Kindred Communication can help your family achieve a new level of closeness.
Inclusive Schooling
At Inclusive Schooling, Julie and Kristie partner with school districts from across the world to deliver transformative and engaging professional development using a unique four step process, which starts with identifying a school’s inclusive education dreams!
Julie and Kristie are committed to creating learning environments where all students flourish and to reimagining educational systems, practices, and spaces. Their aim is to strengthen inclusive mindsets, heartsets, and skillsets of educators and school administrators.
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION MEANS we no longer accept that separate classrooms, separate schools, and separate lives are in the best interest of any student. Separating people by ability Websitedisadvantages everyone. Belonging is a human need. Our educational system, practices, and spaces, need to be reimagined.
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION MEANS every student is valued because of their strengths, gifts, and even challenges. As disability is simply… diversity. Everyone benefits fWebsiterom meaningful participation and opportunities to learn grade level content with diverse peers. We must trust that all students come to us as incredible whole people who do not need to be fixed.
Autism Tree Project
Autism Tree exists to help the autism community live our best lives.
Founded in 2003, Autism Tree is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving autism communities around the world and benefits the entire family.
Autism Tree supports families through our four core values:
EMBRACE. CONNECT. EMPOWER. CREATE.
We embrace every family with love and acceptance.
We connect every family with a community of resources.
We empower you to build a better world by investing in your vision.
We create organic relationships, meaningful opportunities, and lasting friendships.
Autism Tree provides over 200 community-based family events annually under our 19 programs, each created to engage the autism community in a variety of play-centered activities and designed to build social confidence, language and communication skills. Website
The Miracle Project
The mission of The Miracle Project is to create a community where the authentic voices, passions and stories of neurodiverse individuals and those with and without disabilities are celebrated, elevated, supported and belong.
The Miracle Project is a fully inclusive theater, film and expressive arts program focused on building communication, self-esteem, job and social skills for neurodiverse and/or disabled individuals – speaking and non-speaking. Through shared experiences with peers and volunteers, individuals with diverse abilities and backgrounds find their voice, develop their talents and rehearse for life.
Disability Voices United
Disability Voices United is a statewide organization directed by and for individuals with disabilities and our families, advocating for choice and control, equity and accountability, meaningful outcomes.
Over a half-century ago, individuals with developmental disabilities such as autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disabilities, had no right to an education or supports to live in the community. Instead, they were routinely locked up in institutions with deplorable conditions. But then parents joined together to fight for the rights of their children to be educated and live and work in the community. The willpower and dedication of these parents led to the passage of two historic laws, eventually called the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Lanterman Act in California.
Now, a half-century after they created them, families and individuals with developmental disabilities are joining together to establish a new organization – Disability Voices United — to reclaim the developmental disabilities and education systems. Through grassroots education, organizing, and empowerment, monitoring of regional centers, legislative and administrative advocacy, and calls for increased oversight, Disability Voices United will advocate for systemic changes to the systems that ensure choice and control, meaningful outcomes, equality, and accountability.
TACA
Together as a community, we are taking action to improve the outcomes of families and individuals for a better quality of life.
Communication First
CommunicationFIRST is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of the more than 5 million children and adults in the United States who, due to disability or other condition, cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood.
Our mission is to protect and advance the rights, autonomy, opportunity, and dignity of people with speech-related disabilities through public engagement, policy and practice reform, and systemic advocacy.
Wellspring Guild
Welcome to Wellspring Guild. Whether you are a communicator, a family member, a friend or a professional that connects with this work, we want you to feel a part of this community. We may see each other at trainings or conferences. Some of us have formed our own networks to meet the specific needs of the communicator in our lives. We hope that though Wellspring Guild, we can capture all of this great energy to benefit communicators across the country.
Otto’s Mottos
“Changing the world with one finger and twenty-six letters, that’s my superpower.” -Otto Lana, Chief Inspiration Officer.