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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

BREWING BRILLIANCE: SPELLERS CONTINUE THEIR INSPIRING JOURNEY

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Dawnmarie Gaivin, co-founder of the miraculous approach to communicating with nonspeakers, the Spellers Method, announces an exciting new partnership with Golden Road Brewing to launch a new beer, created by Spellers, with all proceeds going to Spellers Freedom Foundation. She also discusses the documentary crew that has been following the Spellers as they discover their lives with communication, who are coming out with a new series called “Underestimated”, which will air on the brand new Underestimated TV platform.

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0:00.0

Of course Vax, which puts me in the center of this conversation was really all about the

0:06.0

MMR vaccine and autism and I'm not going to get deep into that issue.

0:11.4

There's lots of different environmental factors that are probably involved with autism,

0:16.1

all of which we research and talk about all the time.

0:19.9

But in this space of autism, and that I've been focused on for nearly a decade now, probably

0:27.2

the most unbelievable miracle and in helping them sort of break out of that cage that they're stuck in and find a way to communicate it.

0:47.0

I've watched it with my own eyes.

0:49.0

I have watched you know 18, 19, 20 year old adults that were considered nonverbal I knew them for years and now I am watching them go to college

1:00.0

I'm watching them be valedictorians I am watching them suddenly with just a couple of years

1:06.7

you know dealing with calculus it's so unimaginable and so brilliant that it's impossible to describe.

1:17.0

We had the documentary featured here on our show, Spellers, and for those of you that might have missed it

1:25.0

here's just a look at a part of what that was all about.

1:31.6

This is the HighWire's live broadcast to the documentary Spellers.

1:36.0

There are 31 million non speakers in the world.

1:45.0

That means 31 million people have not found their voice. My best friend has a nonverbal child and all these kids are just brilliant beyond words and I'm just very inspired just moved me to tears.

2:03.0

My son is six, he's non-speaking,

2:05.0

and I heard they were doing the premiere here today

2:08.0

and I decided to come out

2:10.0

because I just feel like I needed to be here to learn.

2:12.8

We have a six-year-old son, Tuck, who is nonverbal and severely autistic.

2:17.6

Seeing them actually do it, they were intellectually answering every question.

2:21.7

Like, me and my wife for this is like

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