Spectrum Perspectives

Cindy give the inside scoop about what her guests are NOT saying in their interviews. After watching the movie "Spellers", she's been doing a series of interviews about methods using Spelling to Communicate. She is hearing and seeing miraculous results in non-speaking autistic children and adults as the world of communication has finally opened up for them. However, she has learned that ASHA has p...

Kelly taught Special Ed and ABA Therapy for 33 years and now does S2C with her former students. After a student gave her the book "Underestimated" and demonstrated to her how he could spell, it changed her life. She became an S2C practitioner and retired from teaching. She says she feels guilty about the past, not knowing what she knows now. She has learned how smart the kids actually are, how the...

Kelly was a Special Ed teacher for 33 years. She then taught ABA and now teaches Spelling to Communicate with her old students. She says she feels so guilty now that she knows how much they know, and for not teaching them age appropriate material when they were younger. In this trailer we talk about how ABA therapy is a lot like dog training, and she feels terrible about it now. Then we give a hin...

Sabrina and her 11 year old son seem to be living out of the movie "The Sixth Sense". Reagan says he needs to leave the light on at night because he sees spirits of newly deceased people. He hears his mother's thoughts, and hears other voices like "boisterous laughter" but says he does not like it. He goes to "The Hill" to meet other autistics telepathically at 3:00 am Reagan uses Spelling to Comm...

Sabrina's 11 year old son Reagan is an 11 year old "unreliable speaker" with autism who uses Spelling to Communicate. When she realized he could hear her thoughts she thought "Cheater!" and he spelled "Cheater!" Now she thinks of random nonsense when he's spelling to ensure he is writing the answers on his own. They also share that he hears other voices, sees people newly deceased and goes to "The...

After Jerrica's son began using Spelling to Communicate their lives were changed. She learned he can see angels, and has a deep love for the Lord. He says he can see angels and demons as clearly as we can see cars driving down the street. He typed for us, "I am forever changed. I am not the same person", his hopes are coming true."

When Jerrica's non-speaking son heard his parents listening to the Spellers movie he began to scream and get very excited, and she didn't know why. And when the family would pray together before bed each night, he would also get very excited and run around the room screaming. She had no idea why he was acting this way.....until he began Spelling. Then she found out he knew that his life was going...

When John Paul was 8 his mom took him to Elizabeth Vosseler to learn how to spell to communicate. She then learned he could hear her thoughts! She then became an S2C practitioner. They were so connected that when he spelled with her she didn't even have to speak, she just talked to him in her mind. In part 1 she recounts the time JP when they were on vacation and he eloped at 4:00 am to go swimmin...

P's mom is an SLP. The first time she saw non-speaking kids communicate with RPM (spelling) she cried. She immediately got her son in for lessons. Once he began to spell she learned he could hear her thoughts. There is so much more to come in the full episode. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel, Robbie's World.

Kim is a former music teacher and her husband is a swim coach for University of Tennesse. When she moved to TN she wanted to keep her twin boys together in school, even though Ben was autistic. This began her journey with fighting for inclusion in school. She became so good at it that now she has helped other parents, even drawing a crowd during their IEP meetings to make sure the  schools abide b...

Kim is the mom of twins. She fought for them to both be educated together and created a precedent for inclusion in her town. Then she started helping other parents for free with their IEP meetings with inclusion and allowing them to use Spelling in school.

Michael is a 25 year old with autism who was underestimate his whole life. Once he learned Spelling to Communicate it changed his life. His mother Jodie says that now that she understand the mind-body disconnect of Apraxia it all makes sense now. You'll witness Michael spelling to answer questions and hear his opinion of therapies he recieved as a kid, and his message to ASHA who tries to keep oth...

Michael is 25 and uses Spelling to Communicate. When asked what he thought of ABA Therapy and Speech Therapy as a kid, he says they were both a nightmare. He says to ASHA and those who oppose spelling as a form of communication "to not get them help is cruel and inhumane." His mom says "How dare ASHA act as a gatekeeper! Spelling to Communicate saved my son's life!". Listen to the full episode to...

Michael is a 25 year old young man with Autism who learned how to use Spelling to Communicate 18 months ago. He says he felt like he was living in a silent prison and was ready to end it all. His mother has a message to ASHA, the American Speech Hearing/Language Association because of their statement that is keeping S2C out of schools, "How DARE YOU! How dare they act as gatekeepers. Spelling has...

Jodie and her son Michael both say that Spelling to Communicate saved Michael's life. He says he was living in a silent prison and was ready to end it all. She is angry that ASHA (The American Speech, Hearing and Language Association) is gatekeeping and keeping others from learning to spell because of their public statement, and she urges other parents of autistic kids to please just try it. Liste...

Dr. Neu specializes in treating children with autism and finding root causes to disease. In this episode we talk about the cause of the autism epidemic, auto immune brain inflammation and the toxicity in food and the environment that causes the inflammation. He believes it starts with the health of the mother and offers ways that moms can detox their bodies even before they get pregnant.

Dr. James Neuenschwander is a former surgeon who now practices Integrative Medicine for kids with Autism. He looks at root causes to disease and found that 65-70% of people with Autism have Auto Immune Brain Inflammation, caused by toxicity in their environment. Watch the full episode to hear how to treat it.

Dr. Singh is director and owner of True Health Medical Center and Pure Compounding Pharmacy in Naperville, Illinois. After her own daughter died from a peanut allergy, Dr. Singh began looking at root causes to disease, which led to working with many autistic patients. She discusses excitation in the brain, inflammation, PANDAS, and the gut/brain connection. She also explains how Folate deficiency...

After Dr. Usman's own 3 children had health issues, she moved over into Biomedical medicine to look at root causes to illness, and began seeing many autistic patients. The things she has learned can help reduce seizures and reduce anxiety and improve language. Watch the full episode on this channel.

Dr. Torres leads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab at Rutgers University. Originally starting with robotics studying motor control in athletes, she moved on to working with autistic individuals studying their execution of movement, vestibular and proprioception. She says most times they have an almost 2 second delay in sensory processing, but we need to presume competence and give them time to per...

Dr. Torres heads the Sensory Motor Integration Lab at Rutgers University. She studies people with autism and their Apraxia and disregulation, which then helps them with Spelling to Communicate. This is the short trailer. Learn more in the full episode here on this channel. 

Yes it is possible to do an eye exam on a non-speaking autistic child! Susan Daniel specializes in this type of Optometry. She works alongside Dawnmarie Gaivin of the Spellers method and who appeared in the Spellers Movie. She says that 80% of her patients have an "eye turn" and double vision which she helps to correct. Susan helps Spellers see better which enables them to spell and to communicate...

Susan works with mostly non-speaking autistic patients who also use the Spellers method to communicate. She says 80% of them have an "eye turn" and double vision. Once she works with them to correct it, it helps them see their spelling boards better enabling them to communicate.

Dana Johnson is an OT (Occupational Therapist) who also helped create the Spellers Method with Dawnmarie Gaivin of the Spellers Movie. The method teaches non-speaking students to communicate using spelling. She discusses Apraxia, Proprioception, and the brain-body disconnect in many with autism, which is why she incorporates motor activities to help. She also talks about spellers being disregulate...

Dana Johnson is an Occupational Therapist who helped create the Spellers Method which teaches autistic kids to communicate. She incorporates movement and vision to help them spell. Through working with spellers she has learned how spellers are affected by apraxia and how movement needs to be incorporated. These are things they never her taught in school to become an OT.