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 ...

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.

“Once I sluggishly died to the idea of talking, my mind was free to roam.” Those words begin a poem written by Richie Specht, 27, using what is known as the Rapid Prompting Method (RPM). The poem was ...

This two-part conference will address the resurgence of new variants of facilitated communication (FC) that have appeared across the country, including in the Philadelphia area. A school in Newtown ...

A Waterloo mother is fighting to allow her non-verbal son the use of a communication method the Waterloo Regional District School Board (WRDSB) says they do not recognize as valid. Jude Valant is a 19 ...