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How to Interact with Someone on the Spectrum: Peer Training Developed by an Autistic College Student

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– AAC user: this training shows how INSTRUCT can be used by people with disabilities, including those who benefit from AAC, to develop their own trainings for their communication partners  
– Communication partner: this training was created by an autistic college student to teach his peers how to interact with him based on his lived experience 
– Target skill: how to interact with someone on the spectrum (based on one autistic college student’s lived experience)

screenshot of Grant Blasko with other AAC users

Systemic social isolation of AAC users (Blasko, 2024)

Grant Blasko Grant Blasko is a young adult nonspeaking autistic student and part of the Summit’s Organizing Committee. He is a University of Washington DO-IT Scholar, an active member of TASH’s National Communication Access Workgroup,… 

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Speech is Simpy Exhausting (corbin, 2024)

endever* corbin endever* corbin is a multiply disabled semispeaking autistic self-advocate. Their life has improved so markedly since getting access to AAC that they now spend a lot of their time on research, presentations, consulting,…