Last summer, John and his parents, Jim and Denise, traveled from Central Indiana to Syracuse, New York to attend Syracuse University’s (SU) Institute on Communication and Inclusion (ICI) to attend their 2013 Facilitated Communication (FC) Summer Institute: Connection, Communication, and … Continue reading →
My Dad says I have 23,000+ unread messages and a lot of spam. He says we already probably even approved a lot of spam. Sorry about that. It’s hard to tell when you don’t expect it. Thanks for your patience. We’ll try … Continue reading →
Quietly wanting only what friendship inspires, something awesome and all powerful only approved in whatever time allows. Let’s do it soon next time in rounded understanding of our short time in this school. Soon we all will move on, powerfully … Continue reading →
All can assume wholeness and safe joy when communication truly assumes sacrificial appreciation about your sad quiet place in life together. copyright John Smyth 2013
Continue reading →Wanting personal communication was lost in isolation and will wait with suffering. Each sadly wailing parent only appreciates in silos of grief longing for the child in another silo longing for them, separated waste assumes as human thinking shapes all … Continue reading →
I recently finished writing my first book: “From Autism’s Prison—waking to the world of communication and relationship.” The book is currently being published, and should be available later this spring.
Continue reading →Connecting as friends on a whole new level, we are persons who had no way to communicate until someone introduced us to typing. We now meet each month to share our lives with each other and those who are interested. … Continue reading →
Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario, published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House, Inc., New York, copyright 2006 A Report by John Smyth, April 22, 2012 This story relates in amazing detail the travels of young men and women to … Continue reading →
When soldiers go to battle, they never go alone or without a plan. They carefully plan their attack with a strategic map. Their leader is in charge of carrying out the plan. He is the Warrior. My name is John … Continue reading →
The major themes of the book are personal rejection that Adeline experienced throughout her childhood by family, the time she spent learning and her great gifts for learning and connecting with people outside of her family, each person’s impact who … Continue reading →
There are reasons we cannot know about why we are born where we are or why I am with you here. Until coming to Brownsburg, I have been in the twin prisons of autism and isolation from participation. Now at … Continue reading →
Teaching about autism and intelligence, the cost of nonparticipation by so many, and the opportunities for us as a society is the focus of my life. Recently, I was rescued from the isolation of autism and noncommunication. Until I could … Continue reading →
I was really dead to participation in the world until December 10, 2010. On that day, at 7pm, I met Laura Poorman and my life changed. You see, I have suffered with severe autism for all of my 17.5 years. Now … Continue reading →
You came to my home, and these are my thoughts. Dear Friends, Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here. This is a legion selected by God to give a voice to those without one. We are … Continue reading →
