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“Presume Competence”– What Does That Mean Exactly?
When my daughter was first diagnosed at the age of two and a half, presuming competence was not a concept I was ever told about or had heard of. And even if someone had suggested we do so, I’m not …...
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Trashing Common Misperceptions About Autism
“Trashing Common Misperceptions About Autism and Autistic People and Creating a New World” – that’s what I first wrote as the title for this post, but it’s a mouthful and given the limit on characters...
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“Will She Be Okay?”
“Will she be okay?” This was the question that went unanswered for the first nine years of my daughter’s life. “Will she be okay?” I asked every autism specialist, neurologist, pediatrician and...
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Why Wretches And Jabberers Is Essential Viewing
Wretches and Jabberers. I have written before about this documentary, but I’ve never fully explained why this movie had such a profound impact on me, on my thinking and subsequently on my family. I...
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An Interview With Tracy Thresher of Wretches and Jabberers
Wretches and Jabberers, the not-to-be-missed documentary by Oscar Award winning and two-time Academy award-nominated filmmaker Gerardine Wurtzburg, follows two non-speaking Autistic men, Tracy Thresher...
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Transitions
We returned home last night from the ICI Conference (Institute on Communication and Inclusion) at Syracuse University and though it was wonderful to see those family members we’d left behind, being...
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A Conversation with Tracy Thresher
One of the things I love about having a blog are the conversations I get to have with people I would not feel courageous enough to approach and/or get to know. Tracy Thresher is one of those people....
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“People Do Not Believe Me”
“People do not believe me” was what Emma wrote on our last day in Texas last week. Prior to that sentence she wrote a message to Richard and me that left me in tears because it expressed her gratitude...
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“Barb Doesn’t Talk” ~ Emma
I have a friend who, when they met over a year ago, Emma observed, “Barb doesn’t talk“. “Doesn’t talk” means she doesn’t talk with her mouth to communicate the way she can and does when writing. Her...
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FC and RPM
Both facilitated communication (FC) and Rapid Prompting Method (RPM) while different in practice, are based in a presumption of competence and both are often a bridge to the ideal goal of independent...
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