As a practicing SLP I think there’s a boatload of decent evidence for real independent AAC devices being independently used with low verbal non verbal children. I mean it’s kind of the gold standard. Obviously there’s exceptions but the conflation of facilitated communication with independent aac is the bane of my existence. Children need to be able to request or comment with multiple communication partners or else something is wrong. Also even highly verbal individuals with autism struggle with verbalizing love, so the fact that’s these kids first words is highly suspect…
The referenced article by Jilani talks about this. The telepathy tapes makes one think that there are no other options to learn to communicate, which is obviously so very wrong and disingenuous
As a practicing SLP I think there’s a boatload of decent evidence for real independent AAC devices being independently used with low verbal non verbal children. I mean it’s kind of the gold standard. Obviously there’s exceptions but the conflation of facilitated communication with independent aac is the bane of my existence. Children need to be able to request or comment with multiple communication partners or else something is wrong. Also even highly verbal individuals with autism struggle with verbalizing love, so the fact that’s these kids first words is highly suspect…
The referenced article by Jilani talks about this. The telepathy tapes makes one think that there are no other options to learn to communicate, which is obviously so very wrong and disingenuous