Jessica Fletcher, a mother from Fredericton, New Brunswick, was out to dinner with her 11-year-old son Hunter when the moment she’d been quietly dreading finally happened: the battery died on his AAC device, the tablet he relies on to select words and symbols to communicate. Hunter is autistic and nonverbal, and without the tablet, he suddenly had no way to tell his mother what he wanted to order.
Jessica tried a quick fix, sketching the alphabe…
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