Libby Ingram
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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So whether it's ASHA saying speech therapists are allowed to learn this method, so they can do it more in the public school or more special ed teachers having access to the training, but that needs to happen. Yeah.
Well, John Paul, he also saw angels and he saw the good and the bad. And he was so adamant that we love each other. And he talked about love all the time. That was sort of his message was that I just don't think he had a lot of fear because he knew there was something so much better than that. Love is what's important.
So, you know, if someone was ugly or unkind, he would spell, they don't understand, just love them. And he could see that in them. And I thought, what a gift that he just is so comfortable with who he is. I think his teacher, Ms. Susan, I think I made a post about this because it was hysterical. She said, John Paul, what do you like best about yourself? And he spelled everything. Yeah.
which I thought was fabulous because he had so many limitations, but he was just happy. I think when you see the things he saw, why would you be unhappy? You know, there was just something so much better. And that's a gift. And I try to remember that all the time with him having not being here anymore. Just remember what he taught me when he was here.
Go ahead, Libby. The first thing I think anyone can do is to have positive thoughts, positive loving thoughts in their head because they feel it, they hear it. And I think you can improve... Even if it's your child or your student, their quality of life right away by keeping loving thoughts and not, I mean, there were times, of course, John Paul frustrated me to no end.
I mean, he did some very bizarre things. And in my head, I would say to him, I still love you. I said, I'm just going to have to clean this up. A little annoyed because I'm human, but I still love you. It's okay. I think that is such an easy thing to do. It doesn't cost a cent. to make them feel good about themselves. I mean, because they're already caring so much.
That's a burden to take off of them. I think that's right away something that can be done.
A lot of the people I hear about that have done these tests, first of all, have never had the spelling training. so they don't even know if they'd had the training they might understand why it doesn't work but not only that what infuriates me when people do this is how soul-crushing it is to the child or the young adult or the adult who is being tested it is it's so cruel
Because this person is, I've just heard some terrible things, graduate students trying to test this to disprove spelling, possibly for their professor or whatever. I just, it makes me so angry because it's so unloving. and not supportive that I just don't even understand why it's even done. But don't do it. And if you've never been trained, then you don't even know what you're doing.
And if you have been trained, you probably wouldn't do it because you know that it's not going to work. But I have had people that I know where the autistic went into a severe depression afterwards because it just it was soul crushing. So I just I wish that if any young therapist or professional hears this, they will just refuse to do it. Don't do it because you don't have the training to do it.
So that's my two cents. It makes me crazy, Kai. I find it infuriating.
JP lived silently in this world and I do as well. Zahari wrote this the day after John Paul passed. Yesterday, Jake, you went home. Great celebrations took place on the hill. The hill is so awesome. Sometimes I'd rather be there than sitting here spelling. Going to the hill allowed us to see heavy-man people there.
He did love having his guests at the beautiful celebration. You should have seen all the angels around there.
I am a speech-language pathologist since 1999, and I am a member of ASHA, and I do spell with my child.
Therapists kind of have to be a member of ASHA if they want to get jobs, if they want... to be able to bill insurance if they want to have their certificate of clinical confidence. But Libby is also a mother. And we tried every therapy around. I mean, I have an extensive list. And then when John Paul was about eight years old, I was at a conference.
I literally was looking at her and thinking, I've never heard of it. I needed to see it for myself. I know I had tried everything else. So she went to a workshop to observe kids who were communicating with RPM. I saw kids just like John Paul coming in, and they were spelling. I couldn't believe it. And I just burst into tears. And I just couldn't stop crying. This is it.
I knew from being a speech pathologist and taking biology and understanding the brain, it all made sense to me.
He was able to spell. He was learning age-appropriate academics. It just changed his whole world.
Why would people doubt this? And I really, truly do not understand it.
It is life changing. And once the parent learns the method, I mean, we just would converse at dinner with the letterboard, and John Paul is a part of the conversation. I just don't know why there is so much pushback on it.
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