I don’t usually just link to videos I find on YouTube, but I think everyone needs to see this. It concerns a young girl who has what appears to be very severe autism; everyone supposed she had severe intellectual impairment, until one day she went over to her Dad’s laptop and started to type. It is a very clear illustration of the importance and power of communication: all too often, such kids are condemned to the scrapheap of humanity, when people don’t realise is that all they need is help finding away to comunicate. I usually avoid such videos, as they are often too patronising, sentimental or mawkish, and this one indeed has it’s share of sentiment, but the story it tells and the message it delivers is just too important for me not too flag up.