“Nonspeaking people belong in public, holding court in conversations, doing our thing, our access needs respected, and being our full selves unapologetically”
(Wong, 2025, p.203)
The full paper is freely available at
Wong, A. (2025). How ableism impacts people who need and use AAC. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 41(3), 203–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2489663
Alice Wong (she/her) was a disabled activist, writer, media maker, and consultant, and lived from 1974 to 2025. She was the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. Her debut memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life, is available from Vintage Books.
Additional information and content is available at How ableism impacts people who need and use AAC (Wong, 2024)
