Untruths My School District Told Me As a speech-language pathologist who has specialized in AAC for several decades there are some things that I hear over and over again; even when I think we’ve moved on. So I am going to answer some of your questions right now.
In life’s journey with special needs, embracing concepts like “recovering” from autism can be misleading. Every child’s path to independence and self-advocacy looks different; it’s a spectrum we all navigate together.
Blindness and Visual Impairment Blindness is complete or nearly complete vision loss. Many people view it as the inability to see at all. Legally blind in the US means vision can’t be corrected beyond 20/200, or visual field remaining less than 20 degrees.
