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Mindbook, What's Non Verbal? Empowering non verbal people by changing verbal people's attitudes. Everyone has a voice. Speak your mind and share your stories with this community.

My name is Janelle, but people usually me Nell. I am living my life with Cerebral Palsy. I am non verbal from a result of my CP. I have found it frustrating over the years when people automatically assume that I must have an intellectual disability due to being non verbal. I know that there are lots of non verbal people in the same position as me who face verbal people misunderstanding about being

non verbal and think that non verbal people have an intellectual disability every day. This isn't true at all. I put it down to the lack of understanding by verbal people about what non verbal means. I have set up this Mindbook! What's Non Verbal? page as a community of support for non verbal people, their family and friends. I hope that it will be a safe page for people to be honest and open about issues as well as your experiences good or bad with being non verbal or caring for someone who is non verbal. Your suggestions and ideas will be very welcome about how you have overcome or handle issues surrounding being non verbal. People need to bear in mind that non verbal people have wonderful brains and they are intelligent just like everyone else, but they communicate with the world differently through a number of different communication methods. It is respecting non verbal people and remembering they have the right to choose how they want to communicate with people and the world. Look past people's disability to find a voice within.

01/07/2024

I have better things to do than emailing the NDIS like have a life without any funding for support.

It even seems like it was a 5 minute news story about a poor person with a disability to make the ABC look like their care, but they are blowing me off because they have something better to talk about Julian Assange who can talk, walk and feed himself.

I am looking for a TV news show with some guts to take the fight against the NDIS for other people who are in the same vote.

Here is my email that took me 2 hours to type up to Scott.

Hi Scott,

I am waiting to hear from the NDIS through you whether or not my new plan will be approved by the 7th of July 2024, or will my current plan just renew automatically.

It is not hard for you to send me to confirm yes or no to let me know what is happening with my life saving support to keep me alive. It seems like you are just slack or you don't care about people with disabilities.

You said that you would need 3 months to gather all of the reports that you need about me.

You have all of the reports that you required to make your decisions about what I required for support and equipment without meeting me face to face. How do you know what I need if you don't know me personally?

I will look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,

Janelle

Please share this new website with your network of people.This wonderful website has been created by AGOSCI INC and Spee...
19/04/2023

Please share this new website with your network of people.

This wonderful website has been created by AGOSCI INC and Speech Pathology Australia.

The Communication Hub is no brainer for me. Our community needs a website for people to learn about how to people with communication disabilities, so we are better understood to get included in society.

We are looked upon as being outcasts in lots of area of society because most people don't understand about people who communication differently.

Parker is a young man with Developmental Language Disorder. He has always wanted to sky-dive, but will his communication difficulties get in his way?

It is extremely exciting for me to get and read two beautiful heart touching stories from Mums with children who are liv...
03/04/2023

It is extremely exciting for me to get and read two beautiful heart touching stories from Mums with children who are living fulfilling lives with communication challenges to go into the "Can We Share A Word" book.

I am looking forward to receiving my beautiful stories in over the coming weeks. keeping on spreading the word about this book please.

Hi Tasmanian Folks,I just want to let you know that I am going to be starting working on a new project called “Can We Sh...
28/03/2023

Hi Tasmanian Folks,

I just want to let you know that I am going to be starting working on a new project called “Can We Share A Word” with some of the Organising Committee Gang for the AGOSCI Conference 2022.

I am going to be putting together a collection of personal stories from people with complex communication challenges, families, teachers, therapists and educational tips in a new book to educate everyday people about our experiences, good, bad or otherwise and the different ways that our community communication with the world.

Please send your stories and educational tips to my email address nellyswheel@hotmail.com or please share my post with someone who you know that might be interested in sending anything me.

Cheers, Nell
(Janelle McMillan OAM)

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