My name is Alexandra and See Me Speak was founded in honor of my twin boys, Caleb and Noah, who are nonspeakers and spellers.

For many years, life seemed dark and daunting. It felt like everything with Autism was always a fight. My husband, Carlo, and I were growing tired and weary. We wondered if we would ever get to know our boys, really know them. Then in early 2020, we came upon Spelling to Communicate (S2C). It changed EVERYTHING for our boys and our family. We finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. We found that what we had been led to believe about Autism was completely wrong. Our boys do NOT have a problem with cognition. In fact, their cognition and understanding is fully in tact! What they struggle with is motor planning, which inhibits their ability to properly execute various motor actions - to include the finest of motor - speech... Our boys have been in there the entire time! Listening, seeing, absorbing information all around them... With S2C, we have been able to give them their voice and we are finally able to see them speak! 

 

Upon learning all of this, I did the only thing I knew how. I began to build what our boys needed to thrive and stepped into my "ikigai" (Japanese concept for 'reason for being') - my purpose. Now I won't stop until every nonspeaker has access to S2C for communication, a very basic human right.