The Few Things

There ’s a lot I could tell you about Schuyler’s trip to Gold Coast, Australia for the2018 International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) Conference, where she took part in the Dare to LEAD workshop for selected participants who use AAC technology to communicate. There are a great many stories to tell about our trip.I could tell you about the sense of adventure that accompanied a trip to the other side of the planet, or about Schuyler ’s joy in discovering all the differences both tiny and significant between the US and Australia.I could tell you all about how she finally got to meet my friendLindsey Paden Cargill, and how in an instant, Schuyler didn ’t just have a new friend, but family; Schuyler fell hard for Lindsey, and the feeling was mutual. I could tell you all about how Lindsey sketched Schuyler’s mantra“No more hiding” in lovely script on her arm, and copied her own symbolic speech bubble onto my finger, and how the next afternoon, we celebrated Schuyler ’s workshop by having both these sketches made permanent by a very cool Maori tattoo artist.I could describe the conference sessions we attended and the talented professionals we met.  I could tell you my own feelings of renewed advocacy and my own continued commitment, already fired up, to helping build an inclusive, meaningful and authentic advocacy movement.I could even tell you about Schuyler ’s first legal drink (18 in Australia).There ’s a lot I could tell...
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