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Emma's Hope Book shared Richard Long's post.
Emma accepts the Positive Images in the Media award for Unspoken at TASH in Atlanta. She typed and rehearsed what she said in accepting the award. Go Emma!
Emma won the TASH award - Positive Images in the Media Award for her Unspoken Documentary. Emma typed a sentence that she then rehearsed for accepting her award.
Emma's Hope Book shared Ariane Zurcher's post.
At the TASH conference in Atlanta.
Emma on a panel with Tracy Thresher, Larry Bissonnette, Rhemashope, and Diego Pena regarding communication using keyboards and letter boards at the TASH Conference in Atlanta. So proud of Emma. She was great!
Thank you to everyone who have been patiently waiting for Emma's research paper to finally get posted on her blog. It has taken me awhile to get to as I had to reformat the entire thing in order to post it.
This paper was an assignment for Emma's English class and took Emma more than five months to complete.
Emma's Hope Book shared Richard Long's post.
Over and Coming - written, composed and sung by Emma, now available on iTunes!
Wow! What a day for Emma! First, the premiere of her documentary Unspoken, and now her song Over and Coming is published on iTunes (and I'm assuming other outle...ts)!
Link to iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/over-and-coming-sin…/id1295548657
Grab a copy and tell your friends! This girl deserves a hit!
Emma's Hope Book shared Ariane Zurcher's post.
Unspoken - winner of the TASH 2017 Positive Images in the Media!
This just in from TASH - “We’d like to extend special congratulations to our 2017 Positive Images in the Media Award Winner! Unspoken…”
Emma’s documentary short has won the 2017 Positive Images in the Media award!!!
Emma's Hope Book shared Richard Long's post.
Over and Coming, the song Emma wrote, composed and sang is now available on Bandcamp (link below). In the next couple of days it will become available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.
All monies earned from purchases of her song go directly into her personal savings account.
Emma's awesome song, Over and Coming is now available at Bandcamp.com and will probably be available tomorrow on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and the other usual suspects.
But hey, why wait? Get it now!
Emma's Hope Book shared Richard Long's post.
This is the cover of Over and Coming, the, available soon to be released on iTunes, song written and composed by Emma Zurcher-Long!
Art work: Richard Long
Photograph: Pete Thompson
Cover art for Emma's new song, Over and Coming
Coming soon to downloading service near you!
Emma's Hope Book added an event.
Emma presents UNSPOKEN as a collaborative self-portrait. Her quest to enrich our understanding of what it means to be human takes Emma to conferences and schools across North America, where she shares a message of hope, love and acceptance. UNSPOKEN is a lesson on, and celebration of, living an authentic life as an autistic teenager.
This is Emma's debut as co-director.
Unspoken, the documentary short, co-directed and about Emma, is premiering at the Mill Valley film festival this October. Richard, Emma and Ariane will be going out to Northern California for the premiere and hope many of you will purchase tickets and attend one of the shows. You can preorder tickets at the link below.
https://tickets.cafilm.org/websales/pages/info.aspx…&
You can watch the trailer - https://www.unspokendoc.com/trailer/
...Learn more about the documentary - https://www.unspokendoc.com/about/
Just as important, please help with publicity and promotion so that Unspoken can be seen in a city near YOU! This is the link to make a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION -
https://www.unspokendoc.com/donate/
It's HERE!!!
THE WORLD PREMIERE of UNSPOKEN at the 40th MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL!!!
We hope that all of you San Francisco / Marin County/ Bay Area locals can join us at the festival!
It's official!
WHEN:
Thursday, October 12th, 3:00PM (Location: Sequoia)
Saturday, October 14th, 2:30PM (Location: Sequoia)
*The film will be paired with the feature JUST ONE DROP
HOW:
Tickets go on sale September 17th (September 12th for CFI members) at http://www.mvff.com/ — We urge you to buy your tickets as soon as possible to ensure you can get them!!
Thank you for ALL your support in helping to get UNSPOKEN made and Emma's important message heard - you made this possible and we can't wait to share the film with the world!
Emma's Hope Book shared Sean Donahue's post.
Well said:
60 of my Facebook friends "like" Autism Speaks. I suspect most of you do so because you believe the organization has the best interests of people like me in m...ind. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Autism Speaks:
-- consistently ignores, sidelines, and silences Autistic adults
-- drives a research agenda around Autism focused on "cures" and "treatments" rather than on making our lives easier
-- puts forward voices of people who consider us a burden and promotes sympathy for people who murder, abuse, and neglect their Autistic loved ones while dehumanizing the victims of that violence
If you want to help Autistic people, please support movements and organizations with Autistic leadership.
From Emma's mom - To all non-speakers and those who cannot use spoken language to communicate please, please fill out Emma's survey that she worked so have to create: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScuJamTtfvfbh-rI…/viewform…
"Because many existing communication methods are underrepresented in most schools, I created a survey to find out what methods students use, what they are being taught to use and how successful each is. Additionally I am curious to know whether a stud...ent’s school allows the communication method chosen by each student to be the most beneficial, and if not, how the student then communicates their complex thinking and knowledge." ~ Emma Zurcher-Long
"I hope you will add your voice and experience by participating in my survey. I am glad if you do.
Banding together with our typed words" ~ Emma Zurcher-Long
Emma's Hope Book shared a photo.
Terressa Tate working her magic on Unspoken in the sound studio with Emma Zurcher-Long, Geneva Peschka, Julia Ngeow and Ariane Zurcher.
Sound design tweaks with the @unspokendoc team - thanks to T for running the Star Trek Command Center. #manhattan #unspokendoc #director #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #emmashopebook @gneva
"Because many existing communication methods are underrepresented in most schools, I created a survey to find out what methods students use, what they are being taught to use and how successful each is. Additionally I am curious to know whether a student’s school allows the communication method chosen by each student to be the most beneficial, and if not, how the student then communicates their complex thinking and knowledge."
Please read and share Emma's latest blog post describing her paper and the survey she created for it.
Emma's Hope Book shared Ariane Zurcher's post.
Please help me by sharing my survey with anyone you know who cannot rely on spoken language to communicate their complex thinking and knowledge. If that is you, please consider filling my survey out. Thank you from Emma NYC
Hi All,
This is a survey my daughter, Emma wrote for an english assignment. She is writing a research paper on "the different methods used for those who canno...t rely on spoken language to communicate their complex thinking and knowledge." To all who are able and willing, would you please share this with anyone you know who cannot rely on spoken language to communicate? We are hoping to get at least 100 responses. Thank you so much, really appreciate any and all who are willing to take the time to fill out her survey.
Emma's Hope Book shared Unspoken Documentary's photo.
The color editing session last week with colorist Shanna Maurizi for Unspoken, the documentary Emma is co-directing with Julia Ngeow, producer Geneva Peschka!
Happy Saturday Everyone!
We wanted to give a little update on the film’s progress.
We're working hard to finish post production and wanted to share a behind th...e scenes photo of Emma and Ariane at a color session with colorist Shanna Maurizi.
Emma’s finalizing the overall look of the film!
