Hi to my friends. Too many months have flown by since the last time I wrote a blog post. Sometimes my story enters a state of pause and then sometimes it picks up so fast that I think that my story never slowed down to begin with. Two years ago I thought and wrote about …
Mountain Memories
My friend Kaegan lives in Colorado. I just returned from visiting him and his family. Can my trip have been any better? I don’t think so. I am so grateful to have a friend in Kaegan in the first place. I never had a friend like me before. Kaegan was the first person I ever …
My Visit to HALO
I went to Austin, Texas two weeks ago to work with Soma Mukhopadhyay at her clinic, Helping Autism through Learning and Outreach (HALO). Soma is the originator of the Rapid Prompting Method (RPM). This method has helped me build the skills necessary to communicate by spelling on a letter board or typing. Soma worked with …
My Communication Method is Being Questioned by ASHA. Read My Response.
An ad hoc committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has put forth the following position statement regarding Rapid Prompting Method (RPM) and is asking for formal adoption by its broader community of practitioners: "It is the position of ASHA that the use of RPM is not recommended. Furthermore, information obtained through the use of …
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"A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.”— Helen Keller 