Again, I continue to be amazed at what passes for debate these days. Whatever happened to discussing the actual content of the publications you think you disagree with? Here is Karen Evans from The Informed SLP:
Regarding my infamous slide about echolalia being suboptimal AAC--because, as everyone agrees, the meaning of communicative echolalia often isn't transparent and "detective work" is necessary--Evans has this to say:
So many steps are missing here between the last two sentences that one has to wonder whether Evans holds herself to the same communicative standards to which she holds others who speak to audiences of similar sizes but don't agree with her on all points.
Perhaps, though, she might at least agree that none of us can control the interpretations of those who have already made up their minds and aren't capable of actually listening to what the other side has to say.
("Birth injury girl's mom" here, I left a comment a while ago. Daughter was 3 then, she's now 5.)
ReplyDeleteOne of the kids in my daughter's homeschool co-op, his mom describes as "a Gestalt Language Processor." I took this as basically a polite way of saying he's on the spectrum, but was unsure to what extent.
His mom mostly keeps him away from the group (says he's "on a break"), but he came once. My daughter loves all flying things, and his mom had posted on the group chat that he loved airplanes and had held conversations about them, so I encouraged my daughter to say hi to him. But he wouldn't look at her or answer her and just kept repeating the same phrase over and over.
When another kid who he seemed to know from before his break walked by the door, he suddenly broke off his repetitions, waved and said hi in a completely typical manner. The other kid waved and left, and he went back to his repetitions again and continued to ignore us until his dad announced he was peopled out and needed to go home.
IDK, just consider this a dispatch from "Young Kids Parenting Today." ;)
-OSS