Martha Eleen is an artist whose work has been exhibited in the US, Canada, Mexico and Japan. She’s created an art show about Gabe, her son with special needs. She describes the show and explains what he says about it. She describes her most difficult challenges in caring for him. She describes his most difficult challenges. She highlights the way in which the language used by people who don’t know either of them amounts to a form of systemic bias. She describes the importance of sound in his life and his happiness in his caring environment of an extended family of caregivers. She explains the stresses of family caregiving and how she is able to maintain her life as an artist. She says what more she would like to do and see done in communities to promote art as a language of communication for families with members with special needs. And what she wants to see happen so that persons with special needs are treated as individuals with interests, ambitions and abilities.