Behind the music: the Lynx Project’s young writers (The Leaf: Allison McElroy)

“The Lynx Project is a …nonprofit that takes poetry written by young people with autism and transforms it into art song, which is poetry set to music for piano and voice.

The writers for the project are all Sycamore students who are nonverbal and communicate using the Rapid Prompting Method (RPM). This is an educational method in which students use a letterboard to spell out words. The writers also used this method to answer the interview questions below.”