Non-Speaking Autistics

Non-Speakers – General

The Jaswal Lab at the University of Virginia – Research with non-speaking autistic people

I-ASC (The International Association of Spelling as Communication) – global access to effective communication for non-speaking people

Neuroclastic’s Directory of Non-Speaker Pages, Blogs and Media

Books

Non-Fiction

The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

Leaders Around Me: Autobiographies of Autistics who Type, Point and Spell to Communicate – edited by Edlyn Vallejo Peña

Talking Fingers: Voices of Indian Non-Speaking Autistics edited by Padma Jyothi and Chitra Paul

Typed Words, Loud Voices – edited by Amy Sequenzia

Speechless: Reflections from my voiceless world by Fiacre Ryan (Non-Fiction and Poetry)

Fiction

The Autistic Boy in the Unruly Body by Gregory C. Tino (Picture Book)

I Never Get Lost in the Woods by Aaron Jepson (Novel)

Videos

Listen – a short, award-winning film made by non-speaking Autistics in response to the movie Music

Supporting nonspeaking autistic people’s flourishing, Vikram Jaswal – CRAE Annual Lecture 2025 (YouTube Video) – includes evidence against criticisms of S2C communication as well as research on the use of augmented reality for non-speaking autistic people

The Reason I Jump (Movie)

Spellers (Movie)

Caoimh Connolly Murphy , a non-speaking Autistic advocate shares some of his experiences at the Minding Autistic Minds conference in Ireland

Max Whelan’s interview with Evaleen at the Minding Autistic Minds conference 2024

Apraxia and Synaesthesia: Gregory C. Tino educates Aucademy (Youtube Video)

In My Language – Mel Baggs (Video)