Speechless Does NOT = Mindless

Thank you to Jason Sandford at the Mountain Xpress for this story.

I hope to see you all at this free film screening and donation-requested workshop this Sunday and Monday.  For those of you who believe we need to support development of a “whole community” here in Asheville, where all are included, welcome and supported, please join us.

When Chris Mueller-Medlicott joined a unique Durham theater group in 2005, it sparked a major breakthrough.

Richard Reho, director of the Community Inclusive Theater Project, invited the young man with cerebral palsy to take part in a production. The experience brought Mueller-Medlicott new friends and a new voice, in the form of an assisted-typing method that helped him communicate.
“In the context of the theater group, he just blossomed, and he found a way to communicate,” says his mother, Polly Medlicott. Her son wound up becoming co-director of the project. “It was just an amazing experience for him in what turned out to be the last year of his life.”

Learn more about the documentary film that came out of this experience as well as when and and where the film is being screened for FREE in Asheville (hint: it’s March 7 at 7 p.m. at Jubilee).  More of this story here.