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Rapid prompting method (RPM) was redirected to a page called Facilitated Communication (FC). While these two techniques are similar, RPM is slightly different and, I believe, warrants its own page. Though I could find some articles discussing RPM in popular literature, much of the discussion in favor of its use, at this point, appears to be anecdotal rather than evidence-based. That's not to say it isn't available. I just couldn't find it in my searches. I would like to see more peer-reviewed, evidence-based articles from reliable sources included on the page. [[User:SojoQ|SojoQ]] ([[User talk:SojoQ|talk]]) 19:59, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
==New section==
My own son is a mainly non-verbal autistic, and I understand that the mainstream person as well as the whole industry of Applied Behavioral Analysis sees these kids and adults as less cognitive. It's hard to rationalize that a person has a high functioning intellect when they display very feral behaviors. I myself as a parent also did not believe that my son would ever have any cognitive growth. Then I saw him giving answers via a letter board to mathematical and algebraic questions that he could not have known. He was always exposed to the ABA model, which considers that these people are the bottom of the barrel. He was never taught advanced algebra, or how to solve mathematical word problems, or calculus. But I watched him with my own eyes give answers that were no trick, and these answers even sometimes were more accurate than his mothers, who has two PHDs in mathematics and works as a machine learning programmer. I know it's counterintuitive to see a person as intelligent who deals with stress by throwing themselves on the floor, screaming, or incontinence. It is even harder to imagine them having a far superior mentality than most humans. However these people have no other way to express themselves with others. Imagine if you were of superior intelligence, but could not express this through language, and had only been taught infant skills at dealing with stress and frustration because of your inability to speak or communicate. Since they are not able to express themselves and since childhood have been seen as "delayed" or cognitively inferior, they have developed very constrained modes of displaying their displeasure at being treated as such. Most nonverbal autistics listen and learn at an accelerated rate, however since they cannot express this to the world, they are labeled as less. As a human race we are so limited in our styles and modes of acceptable communication we are not able to meet these people at this time on their own ground.
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I also understand that several articles have been removed from Wikipedia because they were written by nonverbal autistic individuals who were trained with this method. I think that kind of blatant assumption that these articles from nonverbal autistic writers are a lie based on faulty studies done 19 years ago is a dangerous case of biased censorship on the part of Wikipedia editors. I would say if this has actually occurred that Wikipedia has a responsibility to replace these submissions based on the faultiness of the logic this article seems to espouse.
[[User:Chrisglasater|Chrisglasater]] ([[User talk:Chrisglasater|talk]]) 13:44, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
:Please back up
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