What We Think

Presuming competence was never meant to be conditional. Yet some approaches in our field are quietly recreating the same barriers we set out to dismantle. Families and educators are being told “not yet” when students seek new tools or pathways. This piece calls us back to our foundation: access first, always, and learning environments that adapt to the student—not the other way around.

Presuming competence was never meant to be conditional. Yet some approaches in our field are quietly recreating the same barriers we set out to dismantle. Families and educators are being told “not yet” when students seek new tools or pathways. This piece calls us back to our foundation: access first, always, and learning environments that adapt to the student—not the other way around.

From a childhood playroom classroom to revolutionizing literacy for nonspeaking learners—my journey proves that everyone deserves access to real academics. As Gordy, a nonspeaking advocate, shares: "If I could change just one thing about education before I die, it would be the idea that nonspeaking people can't handle real academics." Through REV's phonics workshops, we're proving him right—one letter, one learner at a time. Because communication doesn't require speech; it re

Discover key insights from the webinar Proficiency is Not a Prerequisite, presented for the Maryland State Department of Education. Learn ho

In 2018, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association released a position statement discrediting the methods our students currently...

Last summer, we were so thrilled to have Dr. Edlyn Peña, an Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Director of the Autism...

Seriously the BEST thing to come out of Reach Every Voice has been the friendships and community our typers, letterboarders, and spellers...

As some of our Reach Every Voice students head into high school, we've been tackling summer assignments. One of the best we've seen asks...