Lapwing Spelling

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Join Kelley Howe for a NEW webinar!
Beyond a Purposeful Poke: Supporting Motor Skills Beyond the Letterboard

📆 Two opportunities to catch the webinar.
Tuesday, June 16
1:00 pm ET
7:00 pm ET - This session will include Spanish translation

Register for FREE:
i-asc.org/event/beyond-a-purposeful-poke-supporting-motor-skills-beyond-the-letterboard/

This webinar will explore how to coach purposeful motor skills that help spellers build greater control, independence, and confidence in everyday tasks. We’ll discuss how motor planning, regulation, and intentional movement show up in real-life activities and share practical strategies for supporting purposeful actions across environments. Whether you’re a practitioner, parent, or ally this session will offer actionable tools to help your speller build motor skills beyond the board.

Well done Connor and Caitlin for sharing their poetry at the Rossmar Speech festival!

During the Rossmar Festival at Rossmar School there was a special class for non-speakers and unreliable speakers.

Suzanne O'Hara, Certified i_ASC S2C Practitioner and Volunteer Chairperson for S2C Spellers Northwest Community Group teaches the children to use Spell 2 Communicate (S2C).

Suzanne explained how it works.

The students Connor and Caitlin have learned to communicate using S2C and created the poems by pointing to each letter at a time on the laminate letter boards.

S2C is a method that teaches non-speakers and unreliable speakers to communicate by pointing to letters on a letterboard to spell out their thoughts and feelings. It focuses on building purposeful motor skills and giving individuals a reliable way to express themselves.

We were very impressed with the children's poems.

What does apraxia actually FEEL like?

At I-ASC, we believe the people living the experience are the true experts. In this blog, William, a nonspeaking & autistic speller with apraxia, shares what the “brain-body disconnect” feels like from the inside.

“Having Apraxia feels like a weakening in my neural paths, as if they don’t have the strength to deliver the weighted instructions given by my mind to my body parts.” - William T.

From speech production to motor planning to ocular motor control, this blog is a great reminder that there is still so much to learn, and we must stay open to that learning.

Read the blog: i-asc.org/six-things-you-should-know-about-apraxia

If you work with, love, teach, or support someone with apraxia, this is a must-read.

Want to do more to educate others about Apraxia?
Visit: i-asc.org/star-challenge

Spelling to Communicate (or S2C) empowers nonspeakers to
overcome communication barriers posed by traditional oral
expression by pointing to letters on a board as an alternative
means of communication. By teaching the motor skills necessary
to point on a letterboard, nonspeakers improve motor planning
and control, enabling them to communicate their thoughts and
ideas quickly and accurately.

About 70% of current spellers are autistic, the other 30% have
other disabilities; such as Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and
other genetic conditions or symptoms that affect motor
sensory skills.

If you have questions about S2C, please get in touch!