Ky Dickens
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1,243 appearances
7 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 1 Apr
Ky Dickens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They might not connect with you. They won't ever speak. And I don't think these parents are given much hope. And to love someone without getting a lot of physical or verbal feedback around, like, I love you, thank you back, is very difficult. So it's the ultimate sacrifice these parents are making. And so many of them have been told, again, their child will never speak.
And somewhere along the line, most of them, people at least that we've featured, have discovered spelling to communicate, which is a method for non-speakers to communicate by pointing to letters. And that's a gross motor skill, whereas talking is a fine motor skill. So if you can't talk, it's okay if you can point.
Often these parents would see this and think, that's not my kid because my kid is still, you know, banging their head against the wall or maybe even smearing feces, just really difficult behaviors. And these parents were thinking, there's no way it's my kid. Often, like the deepest leap of hope, not wanting to have your heart broken again, these parents would try.
bring their child to learn to spell and it's often time consuming and such sacrifice and such practice and their child got there and there's a point which is called getting open on the board where you're not just answering a yes or no question or filling in a blank where you start driving the conversation yourself and when these children became open
Pretty soon thereafter, they started saying things about being able to read minds or knowing what their parent is thinking. And of course, when you first hear that, there's kind of that like, oh, wait, what, really? And what happened in most of these cases is the parents would do some tests and do their own experiments and then end up with a ton of questions. Search about this on the internet.
Up until now, there's nothing about it out there. And usually they would find Dr. Powell.
No, but I think what a lot of parents believe, and I think teachers too, is that most of the non-speakers that we're featuring have apraxia, which is where your mind and body are not connected. So if you have apraxia and can't control your behaviors, that doesn't get you very far. Because that's a big thing I want people to take away is like, this is not about autism.
I never talk about it as being about autism. It's about apraxia and not being connected to your body.
That's the... That's the thing that's missing. And in fact, a lot of parents are like, I don't think my kid has autism. We have this big wide tent of how we diagnose this. And people will say it's autism. But no, it's apraxia. And that's the mind-body disconnect. So a lot of it is like the diagnosis could be totally wrong too.
And that's when I realized, okay, this isn't just like a telepathy thing. This isn't about a biological heightened sense. It felt to me, and this is where I... I landed is that this is a spiritual gift and there's a bouquet of them that for some reason the non-speaking individuals with apraxia, the mind-body disconnect, seem easier to tap into.
Then during COVID, they had to self-teach their children at home. And then they were shocked at how much their kid knew. But no one ever spent the time to, because a lot of the teachers might not have thought these people are in there either. So COVID was a huge motivator for a lot of these changes where parents saw my kid is in there and they can smell.
For sure. I mean, we've had—our inbox has been the most delightfully joyful thing because so many of the emails we're getting are people being like, I did not ever think my child could spell. I didn't think they were in there. And then I heard these other stories of parents who felt the same way, and now I'm getting my child to spell. But the best ones are—I mean, they're not the best ones.
They're all the best. But another really fun thing that we're getting are videos from parents saying— My child is spelling. I never thought in a million years they were telepathic. So then I started doing tests. And we tested with four numbers. And here's the video. They could do it. And here's nine numbers. And they could do it. And here's 22 numbers. And they could do it.
And so those are really fun that parents are suddenly doing telepathy tests with their kids. And then the other thing that's really beautiful is... There's parents who, having listened to the telepathy tapes, I think their children realize, okay, my parent is open to this.
Just like you, you're not going to go talk about something to someone if you think they're going to judge you or be scared of you or whatever. So what we're hearing a lot on the ground from parents and teachers is that because they listened, the non-speaking student or nephew or child in their life suddenly feels safe saying, hey, I can do this too, or here's what's up, or here's all of me.
Let me invite you in. And they've said that the world has just expanded in this beautiful way, knowing that it's a safe space now to be fully who you are, which includes those gifts for some non-speakers.
I don't know if science has fully done all the research. They haven't done any research on this really yet. I mean, that's not true. There's been telepathy research and psi research and precognition research that's been happening for a long time, which is pretty conclusive. However, the gifts of the non-speakers, I think this is a new... a new frontier for science.
And that's one of the ethical things that I think everyone needs to consider greatly is like, how do we research this? Because what I have found, and if you think of like a Jane Goodall, right? Like the way she did science is she'd go spend time for months, you know, with the chimps until she finally observed what their life was really like because she immersed herself in it, right?
And it's like, if you're gonna go watch a beautiful lightning bug sinking up in nature, you wouldn't bring them into a lab. You'd go and watch and immerse. And my plea is that scientists will take off their lab coats, pick up a letter board, learn how to do this, immerse themselves with a non-speaker, and they will see and experience and can ask the questions.
Because I think the non-speakers have a lot to offer and they can talk about this themselves, what's going on. But I've been hearing a lot of chatter online about like, put them in a Faraday cage and put them in two separate rooms and do this. And it's like, I don't know if that's going to be the most beautiful, helpful, empowering way to research this.
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