At 14, considered nonverbal and severely intellectually disabled; at 19, admitted to MIT

For the first fourteen years of his life, Viraj Dhanda, who has autism and apraxia, was non-verbal, non-communicative, and assumed to be intellectually disabled.
It wasn't until his father, Sumit, experimented with various communication and keyboard devices that Viraj could work with one part of his body with which he had sufficient dexterity — his right thumb — that he discovered that his son was far from intellectually disabled. — Read the rest
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