Growing Kids Therapy Center

11/21/2025

We had a visitor!! We have missed having you in the office Julie!

11/17/2025

If you missed out on your chance to get one of Caden’s shirts at Motormorphosis, he has more available now! This is a great way to support spellers and give your spellers or allies something amazing to wear. Each one is uniquely and individually hand dyed!

11/14/2025

It is always amazing to watch Brian working with our spellers and the amazing tunes that result!

What does it mean to live in an autistic body, to inhabit an autistic mind? This is one among many questions that emerge from the work of Brian Laidlaw, a poet and folk musician who mentors nonspeaking neurodivergent writers. Find out what he had to say at tucsonweekly.com/music/silently-louder-the-music-of-nonspeaking-lyricists-comes-to-tucson.

📸: Tara Laidlaw

11/07/2025

Neurolyrical Cafe has be come such a great way for our spellers to share their creativity through their song writing and poetry. It’s not just a concert, it’s community.

Every month, nonspeakers from around the world gather virtually with I-ASC and Unrestricted Interest to celebrate creativity, connection, and authentic expression. Through poetry, storytelling, and art. Born during the height of COVID-19, when connection felt out of reach, the Café began as a virtual gathering space for nonspeakers to come together safely and share their voices with the world.

From heartfelt poems to the collaborative “Spellerverse” group piece, each session is a reminder that communication takes many forms — and every voice deserves to shine.

As we close out the year, help us keep spaces like this thriving. 💙
Your donation ensures that nonspeakers continue to have platforms to express themselves and build community.

👉 Donate today to support I-ASC’s mission and make more magic happen in the Spellerverse: https://shorturl.at/uD43W

Join us for the next cafe on Nov. 28, 2025 at 7:00 pm ET
✏ https://i-asc.org/events/neurolyrical-cafe/

A graphic for the Neurolyrical Café features a laptop on a wooden stage background with spotlights and musical notes floating around. On the laptop screen, a Zoom session of the cafe. The text on the left side reads: Last Friday of every month, Collaborative poem every meet. At the bottom, logos for I-ASC and Unrestricted Interest appear with the words “Hosted by” above them. ]

11/06/2025

If you have an unreliable speaker in your life, we highly recommend that you check out this panel through Motormorphosis on demand!

✨ Now streaming on Motormorphosis On Demand! ✨

It’s Not What it Sounds Like: A conversation with unreliable speakers 🧠💬

In this powerful Motormorphosis panel, nonspeakers share their lived experiences as “unreliable speakers” — a term for individuals whose spoken words don’t always match their true thoughts or intentions. Too often, they’re misunderstood, judged as immature, or underestimated. This conversation sets the record straight.

🎥 Watch this transformative discussion — and every Motormorphosis session — on demand now!
👉https://shorturl.at/nIW7N

[image: A graphic for Motormorphosis On-Demand. The top features the Motormorphosis logo with colorful gears and the text “ON-DEMAND” beneath it on a green chalkboard-style background. Below, a photo shows three nonspeaking panelists each spelling on letterboards with their communication partners beside them on a stage. A bright orange starburst reads “AVAILABLE NOW.” Text at the bottom says: It’s Not What it Sounds Like: A conversation with Unreliable speakers
Panelists: Charlie Colligan, Mac Chittum, Michael McIntyre]

11/04/2025

Ben wanted to share this beautiful poem with you all.

Image: Fall woods with poem entitled Morph by Ben McDonald.
Lovely
Are the leaves
Morphing from green
To hues of canary, amber, and ruby
Not cameleonic
But shedding old constraints
Not singularly defined
Changing with the times
Growth to come
As seasons change
Stagnation leaves no winners
Be like the leaves

11/03/2025

Happy Birthday to S2C Practitioner Extraordinaire Katlyn Billue! Today we celebrate you and all that you do - we are so lucky to have you, and are so grateful for all of the incredible support you give to nonspeakers and to the Spellerverse! We love you!!!!

10/31/2025

Check out this fun, spooky song titled "Screams" written by Jack Haynes!

https://suno.com/song/4525753a-dea6-4ea2-af2e-108c647c40bf?sh=ZsUdoGfkbgGDrd4l

10/31/2025

Can you guess the puns?

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

10/30/2025

If you are looking for a fun Halloween activity to do with your spellers, check out this document. It has 2 options for madlibs and some categories for Scattegories.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hXBESGrkacEGavjQxtQc2adTlzMY2A62vEp-Aoriye4/edit?usp=sharing

10/22/2025

Register to attend here: https://i-asc.org/events/neurolyrical-cafe/