WILLIAMSVILLVE, N.Y. - If Kaylie Clinton, 12, is out in public and is upset or has an outburst, people might be quick to judge. If you don't take the time to get to know her, you might never learn ...

Lenae Crandall is a former special education teacher who now serves the autism community as a certified Rapid Prompting Method practitioner. She is the founder of Hope, Expression & Education for ...

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.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Jim Elliott—a long-time reader contributor to Notes and one of the core ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...