I’m sorry to report the sad news that Mel (Amanda) Baggs died this past weekend. One of the most essential “voices” in communicating how autistics “speak,” in expressing how response to and interaction with sensory experience and patterns is a language of its own that so many of us simply do not notice or, worse, refuse to pay attention to, I have introduced my FSEM students to our topic with this video every time I’ve taught my Representations of Autism course for the past 12 years! (If you watch, there are no words for the 1st 3:15, at which point Baggs begins typing a “translation” with recourse to AAC [augmentative and alternative communication]).
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gone, but most certainly not forgotten. baggs’ legacy and voice will continue to live on! <3
And we had just read her work. Rest in Peace, Mel Baggs.