Abby's Dad

@ASHAOwesMeMoney @AltB56073878 @annephillipssea @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids I guess now that we've arrived at name calling the debate is over. I hope that people see the foolishness of those who are trying to keep them from trying motor based communication methods after years of failure using traditional types.

@AltB56073878 @annephillipssea @sidn1971 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids I think parent-quacks use FC as a way to achieve status than effective communication. They’re unable to self doubt, are competing to be the number one parent-quack, and can “believe” tactically like a politician.

Despite the pushback she got on her earlier FC-puff piece, Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids gets it terribly wrong *again.*. This time there’s no excuse, and you have to wonder what’s really going on. nydailynews.com/2026/05/17/let…

@annephillipssea @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids I do agree with you that doubt is the scientific state of mind. Do you have the same thought about traditional orthodoxies? Like why continue with speech therapy for decades when there is no resulting conversational speech?

@sidn1971 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids Eye tracking hasn’t been tested. Hypothesis: if Jaswal repeats his study and equips spelling partners/facilitators/cuers with eye tracking equipment, their eye’s will get to the target letters faster and more convincingly than the spellers’.

@ASHAOwesMeMoney You are sharing screen clips from a private group where rules are in place strictly prohibiting it. The rules that you agreed to in order to be a member of the group. People share their questions and experiences expecting group rules are followed. Very unethical.

[Narrator] Please don’t assume that every word I speak is what I intend to say. Making sounds with your mouth isn’t the same thing as communication. [Emma] Let’s go home please. No more. Yeah. That's it. That's it. That's it. No more! No more. [Mom] We could finally let each other know how we felt. youtube.com/watch?v=1_X8ZD…

@AltB56073878 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids Right, gotcha! See you later BOT.

@sidn1971 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids Lived experience tells us that lived experience is an unreliable standard for anything. Eye tracking shows where people look, not what words they understand or intend to spell. Also, Jaswal’s “spellers” were above chance but far from consistent & not compared to a control group.

@ASHAOwesMeMoney @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids Sorry, we are just living ours and not searching to disprove what we live every day.

@sidn1971 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids You ignore the other unfavorable yet real lived experiences. x.com/ASHAOwesMeMone…

@AltB56073878 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids From 7 years old on up. You just live in a different world sitting behind your keyboard trying to keep people from having a voice.

@sidn1971 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids In their 40s? Where/who are they? What happened to Dov Shestack? Emma Zurcher Long?…

@DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids We don't care about ASHAs standards. Those are for SLPs. SLPs serve a purpose but once they fail, it's insane to let them have a seat at the table.

@sidn1971 @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids ASHA's standard. You said "no amount of testing" would satisfy ASHA, and I said they have a stated standard they will accept. Agree or disagree with it, it's there.

@AltB56073878 @DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids That is not true. There are many who use RPM. You're just making stuff up now. Why are you so dogmatic about this. Do you even know anybody who is a non speaker?

@DrJerroldCoe @sidn1971 @HBurroughs8319 @FreeRangeKids Eventually, many slowly and quietly abandon it. The illusion is too hard to sustain over time. But so is fully confronting the illusion and going public. Easiest just to retreat, as happens ultimately with each next generation. Older RPMers are hard to find. Even Tito these days.

@DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids Who's standard? Eye tracking not a standard? Lived experience not a standard?

@sidn1971 @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids Reject or accept them, but message passing tests are held as the standard. Spelling/FC cannot pass them, for better or worse. Some have reasons (or excuses) why this is, but we can't act like the standards aren't clear.

@DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids And we have trained others to work with her. That number of CRPs 15 and growing is too big to ignore.

@DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids I cant speak for SOMA but I think there is no amount of testing that will satisfy the entrenched ASHA folks. There is a growing body of evidence plus the complete transformation in the lived experience that cant be ignored. My daughter aquired her ability to type thru S2C....

@ASHAOwesMeMoney @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids Ok Bot!

@sidn1971 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids Abby's dad is unwittingly the author of the messages, not Abby.

@DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids So thousands of families helped but you want to stifle a non speaker because of ... how many? Doesn't that happen to those that speak? We know it does.

@sidn1971 @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids I ask you have you ever talked to a family ruined by this "miracle cure?" The claim of living in the past is not borne out - Soma of RPM for ex. forbids modern testing, while many modern court cases are scuttled by proponents due to the "threat" of testing ...

@ASHAOwesMeMoney @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids That's me you fool! And 14 other people. Same voice comes out.

@sidn1971 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids The facilitator is your daughter's "voice," not her.

@ASHAOwesMeMoney @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids You are talking about real people whose lives have drastically improved after communication opened up. That is far more evidence than families need. You are living in the past conflating new methods to 30 years ago. That is the point of the article that you seem triggered by.

@HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids I wonder why people would rather avoid testing than conduct it? We aren't protecting nonspeakers by unwittingly forcing a discredited mode of communication that has never demonstrated authorship. Proponents got this wrong. They have ignored the history and lessons from the 90s.

@DrJerroldCoe @HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids Have you ever talked to a family whose lives have drastically changed? It seems like you are living in the past with no ties to real families or do those not count?

@HBurroughs8319 @AltB56073878 @FreeRangeKids "1000s now type independently," according to whose definition? We're told (for example) that Woody Brown can totally type independently, but for some reason we're given random strings of letters in the Today interview, as his mother calls out completely different letters ...

@EMPIREREPORTNY This is a great Op-Ed, anyone who has ever cared for a non speaker or unreliable speaker knows that nearly all dysregulation and frustration Is due to lack of meaningful communication. Those that oppose methods that work are living in theoretical land and not real life.

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