Importance of Communication

• “My life without communication was 24 years of a living hell. Imagine yourselves sitting in your seats and having your thoughts constantly interrupted by thoughts of terror, your own voice sounding like a thunder of garbled words being thrown back on you, and other folks screaming at you to pay attention and finish your task. You find your body and voice do unusual things, and you realize you aren’t in control. . . . Now add to this that you cannot talk . . . maybe a few words . . . But nothing consistent with language.”

• Jenn Seybert, LeMoyne College, Class of 2006, Sharing Our Wisdom