The Mouth To Hand Parent Association is excited to bring  a private screening of Spellers, to our area. Please read the info below to learn more about this film, and how spelling on a letter board is changing lives EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.

Laurie Collins

4K Version - Inspired by the book Underestimated, the new full-length documentary SPELLERS challenges conventional wisdom regarding a group relegated to society’s margins: nonspeakers with autism, who most “experts” believe are cognitively disabled. 

As the film opening asks, “What if we’ve been wrong…about every single one of them?” SPELLERS answers that question, in convincing fashion, through the stories of eight nonspeakers—Aydan, Evan, Sid, Maddie, Jamie, Vince, Cade, and Elizabeth—who all found their voice through the miraculous process of using a letterboard to communicate their thoughts and feelings. As Jamie explains, “we think, feel, and learn just like everyone else.” 

Inspired by the book Underestimated, the new full-length documentary SPELLERS challenges conventional wisdom regarding a group relegated to society’s margins: nonspeakers with autism, who most “experts” believe are cognitively disabled. 

As the film opening asks, “What if we’ve been wrong…about every single one of them?” SPELLERS answers that question, in convincing fashion, through the stories of eight nonspeakers—Aydan, Evan, Sid, Maddie, Jamie, Vince, Cade, and Elizabeth—who all found their voice through the miraculous process of using a letterboard to communicate their thoughts and feelings. As Jamie explains, “we think, feel, and learn just like everyone else.” 

SPELLERS

SPELLERS - 4K Version

The Budarz Theater is located inside the Ossining Public Library. 

Ossining Public Library

Pat Notaro

Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg

Donnie Wahlberg

Dawnmarie Gaivin

Dana Johnson

Gail Tanner

Aydan Boden

Jamie Handley

Cade Larson

Vince Rinicella

Madison Hollman

Evan Tastor

Elizabeth Bonker

Sid Sarathy