Lightning Rambles

Remiel Cooper first started writing as a child, expressing themself through words as young as they can remember. It's an essential skill of thiers, made even more important by the fact that they are an AAC user. Literacy is a fundamental and essential skill for anyone, but even more so for AAC users, and this need is only made more apparent when the extremely low rates of literacy in AAC users are taken into consideration.

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Traumatic Writing Injuries

ID: A semi-realistic sketch of a pink brain with a red mark on it in a blotch, representing a TBI. End ID. Image by M. CW: suicidal thoughts I can’t write as well as I used to and I am devastated by this. That’s the simplest and most precise way to start this. I received a traumatic brain injury a little more than a year ago now and before then I was always known as a writer. Lord knows my unnamed high school ao3 account knows it. I did exceptionally well on my AP Lit exam an

Sep 4

Vocabulary Update: Geography and Dinosaurs

Recently, our vocabulary has grown immensely! Here is our geography and dinosaur vocabulary update! Lightning Core is working on building out its base vocabulary to meaningfully hit 3,000 words. When the project first started, it started with an estimated 1,500 words. Building vocabulary is an essential part of this process that requires time and effort. Words have to be picked and placed individually, their symbols selected, and their colors chosen. This process can be a len

Aug 30

Launching Lightning Rambles

Here I am, launching my website. Yes, this was supposed to be out two months early but I got my service dog in training and things got delayed so instead I am scrambling to get it up before the Fall semester starts. Here’s the first blog post to announce what this website will feature. My personal portfolio This site will be a place for my personal work history, experience, and CV. You can get to know me personally and professionally through these pages and find plenty of inf

Aug 23

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Let's Talk Theory of Mind

There’s a report I used to hold in very high regard called ‘Autistic People Don’t Lack Theory of Mind,’ in which they conclude, “that the claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind is empirically questionable and societally harmful,” (Gernsbacher and Yergeau, 2019). I used to care quite a lot about this paper, especially in my child development classes when it would come up and we would touch on the concept of Theory of Mind. Ultimately, Autistic people would always com