Spellers Tampa serves children and individuals who are nonspeaking or unreliably speaking due to autism or other diagnoses affecting reliable speech. The program is designed for those whose intelligence and thoughts are not reflected in their ability to speak, and who would benefit from learning motor skills to communicate through spelling.
The Spellers Method is a proprietary multidisciplinary approach that integrates occupational therapy, developmental optometry, and assistive technology to teach motor skills for spelling-based communication. Unlike approaches that focus on interpretation or mediation, the Spellers Method emphasizes speller autonomy—enabling nonspeakers and unreliable speakers to communicate fluently through spelling AS communication, meaning they control their own words rather than having their words interpreted by others.