tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post7231537963819958813..comments2024-01-28T00:21:38.809-08:00Comments on We Are Like Your Child: On Verbal SpeechAlyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413844178426365789noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-31558567631729534122015-06-05T23:07:49.706-07:002015-06-05T23:07:49.706-07:00I don't know what it is like to speak, I'm...I don't know what it is like to speak, I'm actually nonverbal, but typing on my ipad works very well in my life. In part I think because my friends and I treat it as a perfectly natural way of communicating and because my friends treat what accommodations I need to participate in conversations as "common courtesy" rather than special accommodations. They don't pretend I am normal, but they don't treat me as strange either. Unfortunately my friends are amazing and incredibly uncommon in my experience. Friends willing to be pro-active about making others stop and give me time to respond makes a big difference in whether I can participate in conversations or not. It is unreasonable to expect me to be able to join in conversations without assistance no matter how awesome the ipad is. People around me who can speak must help in order for it to work.<br /><br />The location makes a difference too, a very big difference. Where I lived before, no one had patience for typing and very few people cared enough to "listen" to me at all. Where I live now is amazing and most people are very accepting and have little trouble communicating with me, but in my experience this is very uncommon.<br /><br />Very few people have the patience to handle PECS of any type, unsurprisingly. Only a couple of my closest friends try to communicate with me when I'm not able to type and I'd never expect a new "conversational partner" to try to figure out how to understand PECS. It is unrealistic, a speaking person really needs training to communicate with someone nonverbal using PECS. Typing is much more likely to function out in the "real world".Pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02257165938375664953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-2507995982075324522015-06-05T23:07:29.854-07:002015-06-05T23:07:29.854-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02257165938375664953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-61059789713762378832015-06-04T00:24:06.916-07:002015-06-04T00:24:06.916-07:00Thanks for sharing. My son is non-verbal and peop...Thanks for sharing. My son is non-verbal and people often ask "is he talking yet, how does he communicate?".<br />I find it very helpful to know that plenty of adults are happier communicating through written words. My son's school are issuing the pupils with communication iPads instead of the PECS folders, these have been a great success so far. I hope that as he grows up these will be more commonplace and accepted as a valid means of communication.Jo who can't think of a clever nicknamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02663450738390351663noreply@blogger.com