Gillian offers a version of the stance of curiosity that will guide our approaches with students who are non-speaking. Our culture is so reliant on spoken communication that we can have implicit bias that influences our social behavior to under-estimate the capacity of those who communicate via different channels. How can we change our mindset to presume the competence of non-speaking learners, while taking responsibility to adjust the pace, volume, and language that we use in our conversations without talking down? Joelle adds ideas related to problem solving including attunement, educated guesses, and modeling. Visual tools are brought up as a trusted go-to to augment communication. As always an open, curious, and flexible approach always serves us well.
Check out this amazing video on using Collaborative and Proactive Solutions with non-speaking learners!
Alliance against seclusion and restraint youtube channel 8/24/23https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDOq2JPyb8E
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