Freedom, Dignity and Communication for All

As many as 40% of people with Autism are nonspeaking — more than 30 million worldwide. Yet only a small fraction of nonspeakers have been taught how to communicate. Until now...​​​

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Spelling to Communicate (S2C) is an evidence-based form of communication that has freed thousands, and soon millions, of non-speakers from their lives of silence and isolation.  For those suffering with the inability to communicate and their families, just being able to communicate can litterally be life-saving.  The gift of reliable communication means no more guesswork, everything becomes easier and life becomes a hopeful adventure of learning and discovery. 

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At Spelling Center of the Quad Cities, we believe communication is an innate human need and natural right, and we are dedicated to achieving dignity, freedom and autonomy for all through a reliable means of spelled communication.  By presuming competence and teaching the purposeful motor skills neccessary to to overcome the motor-sensory challenges posed by traditional oral communication, we empower nonspeakers to point to letters as an alternative means of communication (AAC) and build the skills necessary to make communication possible.

 

Our skilled practitioners partner with your speller and their supportive communication partners (family members, teachers, aides) to guide the learning and progress of your speller along an increasingly complex hierarchy of motor skills, from pointing to letters to typing, and as motor skills progress, advancing their communication skills from concrete to abstract.  By working together, we can achieve the synchrony between cognition and motor needed for reliable communication, so that all non-speaking, minimally speaking and unreliably speaking people can find their voice and finally be heard. 

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The blind have braille, the deaf have sign language, and now... non-speakers have Spelling to Communicate (S2C)!