Ky Dickens
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 1 Apr
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Well, most of these individuals aren't being touched. I think that the problem is, I mean, the problem is that no one's presuming competence.
Spelling. Okay. I should restate this. So spelling is kind of the catch-all phrase for pointing to letters to communicate, be it on a letter board or an iPad or even a keyboard like what we're used to with a computer.
Yeah, I think that's a good summary.
Right. So this is a compounded issue. But one thing that's kind of I thought this was fascinating is that any type of like alternative form of communication has gone through immense battles to be validated. Like, oh, my gosh, sign language. I think in the 1800s, there was a conference in Milan where everyone's like, we cannot teach sign language. People need to try to speak.
Sign language went through battles for, I mean, over 100 years to try to even get accepted as a real language. And it wasn't until the 70s or 80s when that happened. And then Braille, Louis Braille, who invented Braille. The people at the school where he invented it was like, you guys can't use this. We don't accept this. And we don't believe you can read by touching dots.
And we don't believe you can type by poking holes. That's impossible. That seems nuts. So when they did, they would do these tests with Louis and other students to be like, OK, you write one word and you spell, you know, and you read it with your dots. And they did. And then they'd say it's fake. They planned it. They pre-planned the words. And it wasn't until multiple times.
You know, variations that finally Braille was accepted. And now we're seeing the same thing with spelling to communicate. They need a communication partner. Just like to read, you need glasses. It doesn't mean they're not communicating on their own. They just need someone to help support their motor control.
Yes, yes.
Well, yeah. I mean, you think about it, right? For now, you know, decades, if you have apraxia and you're a non-speaker and you're considered you're not in there, people will treat them, put them in school systems where they're trying to teach them to, like, behaviors that are impossible if you can't control your body.
And then often teach them over and over colors and shapes and teach them like they're not getting it, that they're not smart. So they've been robbed of their education. They've been robbed of an entire livelihood. So to admit that we've been wrong about this entire population and educating them wrong, I mean, that's a lot of reckoning. That's a lot of wrong.
And ABA therapy, which is now what kids go into, is a multibillion-dollar industry. And I think that they profit very much so from having kids go into this type of therapy. And I think ABA therapy can be helpful for some people. But for a lot of non-speakers with apraxia, it's traumatic. What is ABA therapy? It's behavior therapy. And that's like what insurance will cover if you have a practice.
Yeah.
I do think it is. I think there's a huge financial gain, ABA therapy and ASHA. And I think it's all in bed together.
It does. But if like anyone listening to this, the number one thing is that like if you think of a human rights violation, right, that non-speakers aren't allowed to go spell in schools to communicate, to participate socially.
You know, because these are individuals with ideas and thoughts and career hopes and want to date and want to have friends and want to be involved. And yes, they can't control their bodies physically. But they can do, they can communicate and to be leaving them out because, oh, we can't afford or we don't believe that you should have a communication partner in school. It's so, it's just mean.
It's a human rights violation, I think.
Yeah. I mean, that's, yes, it's also very bizarre.
Yeah, because if spelling if you could be if they'd say, hey, we will approve for spelling to be covered by insurance. Every family could go do this right now. You've just spent thousands of dollars often go to a conference, do an online thing. It's not cheap. It's not affordable. It's not easily accessible. I mean, it can be depending on where you live. Right. But like but it's it's not easy.
That would be a lot more money going away from AVA therapy.
Yeah, I think the corroboration of person after person after person was really helpful, you know?
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