Partners & allied organizations

Stronger together.

FC. RPM. S2C. Supported typing. The methods differ in materials and pacing. They share a premise: presume competence, and treat communication access as a motor and sensory problem rather than a cognitive one. This site is method-neutral on purpose — and these are the organizations doing the work alongside us.

Programs & organizations

Supported Typing

STeP — Supported Typing Program at Abilis

The STeP Supported Typing Program presumes competence in every individual and offers a technique that helps enhance the brain–body connection. A long-standing model for how supported typing is delivered with rigor and respect.

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Wellspring Guild

Wellspring Guild's mission is to ensure that all non-speakers, minimal speakers, and unreliable speakers have a meaningful voice that is personal, authentic, and effective — by building community, promoting best practices in facilitated communication, expanding quality training, and strengthening the research-to-practice connection.

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HALO — Helping Autism Through Learning and Outreach

Soma Mukhopadhyay's organization and the home of the Rapid Prompting Method (RPM). HALO trains families and practitioners and runs intensive camps for nonspeaking learners working toward independent communication.

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I-ASC — International Association for Spelling as Communication

The professional home of Spelling to Communicate (S2C). I-ASC certifies practitioners, runs trainings, and publishes resources for clinicians, families, and the spellers themselves.

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supportedtyping.com

Stewarded by Susan, a long-time advocate in this community. A complementary resource and entry point for the supported-typing terminology many adult communicators prefer.

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Coalitions & advocacy

Cross-organizational efforts working to change how the broader public, the press, and policymakers understand supported communication.

Coalition

Communicators for Communication Rights (C4CR)

A coalition of professional communicators — PR, digital marketing, journalism — organizing to support communication rights for nonspeaking people. Still in its early stages and building a roster of professional allies (including from major firms) committed to changing the narrative.

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Media partners

Media

Autism Parenting Magazine

A widely-read publication for families that has consistently given space to balanced, family-centered coverage of supported communication and the neuromotor framework.

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Working in this space?

If your program, organization, or coalition belongs on this page, we want to add you. Method neutrality is the point — the more of us listed in one place, the harder it is to dismiss any single one of us.