College Valedictorian with Nonverbal Autism Gives Graduation Address

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“God gave you a voice. Use it. And no, the irony of a non-speaking autistic encouraging you to use your voice is not lost on me. Because if you can see the worth in me, then you can see the worth in everyone you meet.”

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that she and her fellow graduates were celebrating their “shared achievements” and recounted her journey:

American blind, deaf, mute authoress Helen Adams Keller, with Anne Sullivan, , who taught her when she was a child, and is at the time of this photograph her interpreter. They are communicating by spelling words into each other’s hands with a finger alphabet. This June 28, 1989, file photo shows Fred Rogers sitting on the set of his television house between taping of a segment for his children’s television program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, in Pittsburgh.

“God gave you a voice. Use it,” Bonker said toward the end of her speech. “And no, the irony of a non-speaking autistic encouraging you to use your voice is not lost on me. Because if you can see the worth in me, then you can see the worth in everyone you meet.”

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