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For the first 25 years of her life, Emily Grodin’s vocabulary was limited to her name and just a couple of words. Then she got a new speech therapy aide and an iPad that opened floodgates of personal expression. Now Grodin, a 29-year-old with nonverbal autism, and her mother Valerie Gilpeer have written a memoir, I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust (HarperCollins), about the difficult journey leading up to the 2016 breakthrough and the exciting one that embarked from it. The book’s title comes from the first sentence Grodin wrote on the iPad, assisted by an often maligned technique called facilitated communication. ....