JB Handley's Spellers documentary is moving, inspirational, powerful, and educational.
Someone you know, or a friend of someone you know, has a child who is non-speaking ASD/autistic. Please send them this movie to watch.
Hey guys.
I've been following JB Handley son Jaime's story for a while, and they just made this movie about their journey called "Spellers".
I just finished watching it. It's incredible. And so inspiring.
At the end of the movie, JB says that autism is a motor-planning impairment, and not a cognitive impairment. He says that he was wrong about that the whole time, and so was everyone else. Now that they know it's a motor-planning impairment, he asks how to 'rectify that': is it something done in the brain, or is it something done with therapy, or with nutrition? He says he does not know.
But I KNOW. My functional neurology health professional peers KNOW. In watching this movie, my immediate thought was how we can close that gap. We can meet these non-speakers and their families on that bridge to help them.
What I picture is JB and his son Jaime, other non-speaking autistics, and all the 'S2C' practitioners on one side of the bridge, and us functional neurologist specialists who are learning from Dr. Robert Melillo (teaching the Melillo Method) on the other. But we haven't known about what the other group does.
Now we can.
We need to wave to each other on either side of the bridge, and walk towards one another. Or run.
When that happens, I'm convinced phenomenal things will happen for non-speaking people.
JB Handley's movie Spellers is out touring in the USA at various Film Festivals and screenings. I'm trying to get it screened here in London, UK. I think it's important to band together to make transformation happen.
“Let the revolution begin.”1
You can watch it for $10 here.
https://kinema.com/events/spellers-yrkyys/tickets
This is a powerful quote communicated in Spellers. Watch it to see who said it.
Hi, I came across your post following links from JB Handley's Substack. I'm grateful that profound autism is now circulating in news and social media, raising awareness of the challenges and differences from high functioning autism. I have a profoundly autistic 9 year old pre-verbal boy, and have managed to mitigate many of his symptoms through diet and lifestyle changes, but there's more to be done and some links still missing. Your statement in this article that you know what is needed to bridge the gap caught my eye and I'd appreciate if you could share more information on that.