Spelling to Communicate (S2C): New Research Study
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2023
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32398...
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Thank you for this video as our 11 year old grandson is presently using the letterboard with some success…it is therefore very discouraging to see this method consistently disparaged by critics of Facilitated Communication who say this is not only an unproven pseudoscience but damaging to the young people using it. Thank you for providing the evidence presented in this study! I applaud you!
Thank you very much for your comment and for sharing your experience about your grandson. The controversary was over a decade ago. Now we have technology which can answer the question! There are so many people with autism that can benefit from having different ways to communicate. All the best to your grandson!
My son has been doing this for two years at their facility in Herndon VA. It works. It’s real. It’s not a trick. It takes time and he is not yet fully conversational but a month ago he told my wife happy birthday and that he was so excited to celebrate with her. He can also do math problems faster than I can type them into my calculator. And he would be considered severely autistic. To anyone reading this, please look into it. Please watch the movie Spellers starring Jamie Handley.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Your son sounds like a very loving person. So glad he now has a way to communicate that so everyone can know that!
Thanks Theresa for doing both videos on S2C!! Grateful! My son is in year two 💙🙌🏼
Awesome!! It must be wonderful to connect with your son with him using his own words.
Excellent video - thank you! I have worked with over 30 Spellers of all ages and they have ALL made progress with this method. Of course the study cannot claim that every nonspeaker is capable of spelling BUT we will never know if we do not give them the opportunity to learn the motor planning necessary to use the letterboard. Every S2C practitioner I have met has immense confidence in every nonspeaker they meet. We all believe they are intelligent & have thoughts to communicate. They can learn to spell :)
Wonderful! Giving someone an opportunity while also believing in them is vital! Great work!
Idk where the subtitles come from but she said "their body is erratic" not "their body is erotic" lol.
Are the teachers in MA?
I have been doing a similar thing with my 6 year old grandson only we have been just using the plastic alphabet magnets they have like 5 sets of the whole alphabet in one package for a couple of bucks I was watching him play one day and he was actually spelling words so I’m like Ryker what does this spell I was totally shocked I know he is extremely smart but to just be able to spell any random word I asked him😂he just turned 6 he has not mastered control of his pencil yet but he can make every letter upper and lower case out of play doh anyway I just thought i would share that
Awesome!! It is so great that you can see the brilliance in your grandson! Thanks for sharing and giving us real life examples.
Theresa…what an encouragement! Like you l have been using magnetic lower case alphabet with our grandson who is severely autistic with challenging motor control issues but l was surprised that if l held the letters in sequence he could put them on the board to spell the subject we were discussing! We face a lot of opposition in the school system who are adamant that this method does not work, consequently we hire a tutor to coach him a couple of hours each week … but it is evident that he would need more to develop this skill. Thank you for your encouraging comment!
@@navigatingawetismthank you so much!
That's super cool. I think some kids will pick up how to spell from seeing words around them and being read to, etc.
What would happen if there wasn't a person holding the letterboard though? I would want to see the difference between that and the typical S2C in a study. I don't doubt for a moment that these nonverbal individuals have many complex ideas to express. I also don't doubt that they can learn to express them by spelling. I just think if they can letterboard they can likely type using a device that is similar in organization and size to the letterboard. It might be messier, with typos and more trailing thoughts and whatnot, but it'd be a baseline measure.
This would still need to be measured in people who have had extensive letterboard training. And there would need to be focus on letting them know that it's okay to misspell or "mess up." I'm sure a lot of autistic people would have trouble typing or spelling without encouragement because they want to know they're doing it "right." Autism overlaps a bit with OCD that way. But that encouragement, even if not an explicit cue, could bias the results. Such a study then might need to specifically recruit participants who are less likely to become anxious and/or frustrated and will be able to give a typing sample without getting distressed. Because that wouldn't be a fair assessment and also wouldn't be very nice to put a person through.
Do you have connection here in Sydney Australia
The number of practitioners is increasing. However, Elizabeth Bonker has started an organization to help parents get started virtually. Check out communication4all.org/