Who We Are
There are over 31 million non-speakers, unreliable speakers, or echoic speakers worldwide. These individuals deserve to have a reliable form of communication. Their thoughts, opinions, ideas, beliefs, and views matter. Our goal is to help those that have been living in silence for far too long. Not everyone can use ASL or an ACC device. S2C works and Spellers are starting a new revolution NOW!
Meet Paulette: SPED Teacher, Tutor, S2C and Advocate
Paulette Trotsky
I am beyond excited to be working full-time with spellers and others with disabilities at our office, Found My Voice! I was trained through I-ASC (www.i-asc.org) and I completed my Practitioner training through Growing Kids Therapy Center in Herndon, VA. Working with non-spellers is very fulfilling work because communication is a human right, NOT a luxury. We know now, through research and studies that non-speakers have robust LANGUAGE, but they lack the fine motor skill of speech. Language and speech are not the same. This is due to a brain/body disconnect, not their own choice. Non-speakers KNOW what they want to do and say, but their body prevents them from completing the action. The entire world needs to look at non-speakers in a new light and presume competence. Presume that they know what you are saying. Presume that they want to do something even though their body is not taking action. One of my mentors has a fantastic phrase that I like to quote often, “The outsides don’t match the insides.” We have multiple levels of intelligences, abilities, interests and even a parent of a non-speaker may not know how “deep” their child is until they presume competence and help their child to communicate more effectively with a letterboard. A letterboard has NO LIMITS. It has 26 letters with infinite possibilities.
My job as a Communication Regulation Partner is to teach the method to the Speller (and then family) so that they can have more robust lives through communication, education, relationships and more. Humans are complex and there are no 2 individuals exactly alike. We all have unique features and characteristics that make us who we are as humans. Non-speakers need the same respect. To me this is the best job in the world because I am giving individuals a chance at a better life when others are dismissing them. Non-speaking does NOT equal non-thinking. I cannot imagine how difficult it must be to live “only in your head” for years and years and years. I can appreciate the frustration that non-speakers must feel every day. I want to do my part to help the over 31 million non-speakers, unreliable speakers or echoic speakers to communicate more effectively so they can live more fulfilled lives and share their experiences, thoughts and dreams with others. I hope that more non-speakers are able to find work that they love, engage with friends and family and build a life that makes them happy and fulfilled.
I am a licensed Special Education Teacher, tutor and I provide core education classes to nonspeakers.
My job as a Communication Regulation Partner is to teach the method to the Speller (and then family) so that they can have more robust lives through communication, education, relationships and more. Humans are complex and there are no 2 individuals exactly alike. We all have unique features and characteristics that make us who we are as humans. Non-speakers need the same respect. To me this is the best job in the world because I am giving individuals a chance at a better life when others are dismissing them. Non-speaking does NOT equal non-thinking. I cannot imagine how difficult it must be to live “only in your head” for years and years and years. I can appreciate the frustration that non-speakers must feel every day. I want to do my part to help the over 31 million non-speakers, unreliable speakers or echoic speakers to communicate more effectively so they can live more fulfilled lives and share their experiences, thoughts and dreams with others. I hope that more non-speakers are able to find work that they love, engage with friends and family and build a life that makes them happy and fulfilled.
I am a licensed Special Education Teacher, tutor and I provide core education classes to nonspeakers.
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