01/07/2026
Join us for a webinar on Supporting Autistic Learners Who Are Nonspeaking or Minimally Speaking: What Every Parent Should Know, Wednesday, January 14, 4:00pm Pacific Time.
The webinar will bring clarity and guidance from three leading experts: Lisa Mihalich Quinn, founder and executive director of Reach Every Voice, Julie Sando, Director of Autistically Inclined, and Dr. Edlyn Peña, CEO of Dream Community Center and Director of the Autism & Communication Center at California Lutheran University. They will be talking about their book, Breaking Barriers for Nonspeaking Autistic Students: A Toolkit to Enhance Communication in Learning Environments.
Together, they’ll help parents understand and support autistic learners who use little or unreliable speech, including key concepts such as:
Presuming Competence: Why believing in a learner’s abilities changes what becomes possible.
Motor Differences & Apraxia: A simple, parent-friendly explanation of the brain–body disconnect that affects speech and movement.
Shifting From “Behavior” to Co-Regulation: How to interpret actions through a sensory–motor lens and support regulation, safety, and connection.
Communication as a Human Right: Why every learner needs consistent access to robust communication—not just choices or requests.
Where Literacy Fits In: How reading and writing support real communication and open academic opportunities.
The link to the event to register is https://xminds.org/event-6434341 (live link in our stories)
