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Advocates of "spelling to communicate" claim it can help nonverbal people communicate with words. Top-level experts have criticized the method and said the people are "cued" to point to the letters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melissa Valant is pushing the WRDSB to allow her non-speaking autistic son Jude to use Rapid Prompting Method in class, arguing it ...