What is the SPELLERS Method?

Communication is defined as the exchange of thoughts and ideas between two or more people. But what if you are a nonspeaking individual? What if your body is affected by apraxia, making fine motor actions, including speech, much more difficult?

SPELLERS Method addresses apraxia in nonspeaking people by coaching gross motor movements rather than the fine motor. Practitioners coach spellers to use their arm movements to indicate letters on an alphabet board, spelling words, and eventually sentences. We presume competence in our students, we believe they can and want to learn.