Appendix: Elizabeth C. Grace. I was a self-loathing FC skeptic / Amy Sequenzia -- Who knows? / Elizabeth J. Grace -- About the essays / Amy Sequenzia -- About the book / Elizabeth J. Grace -- Mistaken beliefs / Emma Zurcher-Long -- A barrier of sound, not of feeling / Cynthia Kim -- A sense of wonder : knowing my hand / Lucy Blackman -- A teacher who types / Alyssa Hillary -- Well really I am / Aaron Greenwood -- Hello everyone / Aaron Greenwood -- Let me think that power / Alex Kimmel -- Interview / Alex Kimmel -- June 16, 2002 / Astrid van Woerkom -- My name is Emma / Emma Charlotte Studer -- Typing is important / Brayden Fronk -- I am a boy with autism / Christopher Finnes -- I do some playing / Conor McSorley -- I am the perfect candidate / Eva Sweeney -- I began spelling / Jake Hunt -- I want to give my input / Anonymous -- As an infant, I was diagnosed with Jouberts / Nathan Trainor Facilitated communication / Sagarika Vaidya -- Some days I spend / Stephanie -- I write, therefore I am / Christy Oslund -- I want to define my position / Cindi Hoyal -- Written English is my first language / Cori Frazer -- Autism and neurodiversity panel / Daniel McConnell -- Finding myself in language / Lucy Blackman -- Each day I am determined / Graciela Lotharius -- Sometimes typing is the only way / Stephanie H. -- Inclusion, communication and civil rights / Henry Frost -- Frightening it was / Joey Lowenstein -- When people are social beings / Justin Robert Benjamin -- My cat comes when my tablet calls him / Kassiane A. Sibley -- Loud voices / Kayla Miki Takeuchi -- Keys / Aleph Altman-Mills -- How do I explain? / Kimberly R. Dixon -- Invisible man revisited / Lateef McLeod -- Inside of me / Leonard Schwartz -- Autobiography / Lily -- Lucy's song 2007 / Lucy Blackman-- I am a 43-year-old autistic adult / Mandy Klein -- Lights inside getting out and shining / Mark Utter -- I'm on a new awakening / Mekhi T. Shockley -- Story / Michael Lee -- Face my morning face / Michael Scott Monje, Jr. -- Painting on my performance face / Michael Scott Monje, Jr. -- My many communication systems / Anonymous -- My typed voice / Alyssa Hillary -- NonSpeakingNotSilent / autismdoggirl -- Notes on not speaking / Bridget Allen -- Overload / Lydia Wayman -- Itsa crying shame, severely gifted / P. Allen -- Creative writing / Paul Hope Park -- Nonspeaking (at times) autistic makes video / Paula C. Durbin Westby -- I am meaningful / Philip Reyes -- Typing / Philip Reyes -- Typing to talk is healing / Philip Reyes -- FRIENDSHIP / Quinn Partridge -- "Typer interrupted" / Rick Maives -- Ron's writing / Ron Giri -- Solitary confinement / Roy Bedward -- The song of life unfolding Sparrow Rose Jones -- Story / Ethan -- The world through my hands / Lydia Wayman -- Timothy O'Keefe on employment / Timothy O'Keefe -- TO THOSE / Emma Zurcher-Long -- To be included / Tracy Thresher -- Trains and taxis / Hope Block -- Yardsticks / Lydia Wayman -- I don't want your "protection" / Amy Sequenzia -- Appendix: I was a self-loathing FC skeptic / Elizabeth C. Grace.
Summary:
"Written by a coalition of writers who type to talk and believe it is neither logical nor fair that some people should be expected to prove themselves every time they have something to say"--Page 4 of cover.
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