Working to help those with complex communication needs.

Communication is Key AAC is a Michigan non-profit organization that believes that
every individual has the right to be able to communicate


Hi, friends. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy to share these FREE downloads from Communication is Key. They are AWESOME! I'm convinced that sometimes the simplest solution is the most familiar, easiest to access and best solution. My oldest, who will turn 30 in December, used the Picture Exchange System for many years. Then came the iPad and we all thought, "Oh! This is the answer to our prayers!" We bought ProLoQuo and other pricey AAC apps. And they work. Sort of. If you can get your kiddo off YouTube. Then along came Soma with a new way of learning motor planning and touching a letterboard to spell words. That was repackaged, upsold and turned into Spelling to Communicate, which is working beautifully for many who have been able to train to become or find a provider and spend the many hours and thousands of dollars required to manage the motor planning, vision and communication deficits. (See JB Handley's book below!)

Any communication is better than none.

I've sent this website to my daughters' day program managers, asking them to buy a LOT of ink and get busy printing and laminating. I'm doing the same. I know Bella especially will love have an easy to use sheet to tell me what she wants.  Mia will probably use it.  Gianna has much more speech than her sisters, but I'll encourage her to model use for her sisters. Cheap help!

Underestimated An Autism Miracle
By JB and Jamie Handley

In Underestimated: An Autism Miracle, Generation Rescue’s cofounder J.B. Handley and his teenage son Jamison tell the remarkable story of Jamison’s journey to find a method of communication that allowed him to show the world that he was a brilliant, wise, generous, and complex individual who had been misunderstood and underestimated by everyone in his life.

Jamison’s emergence at the age of seventeen from his self-described “prison of silence” took place over a profoundly emotional and dramatic twelve-month period that is retold from his father’s perspective. The book reads like a spy thriller while allowing the reader to share in the complex emotions of both exhilaration and anguish that accompany Jamison’s journey for him. and his family.