Broader questions concerning assisted spelling

Published: May 8, 2021, 3:05 p.m.

The problem posed in the spell-to-communicate approach for autism is a broader problem for all of us.   We are all spelling to communicate for increasingly larger proportions of our communications with others.   For all of us, this introduces the doubts that the thoughts and ideas are truly our own.   The slowness of spelling things out gives the opportunity for someone or something to insert their thoughts into our consciousness.  As that happens, we lose the diversity of thought we once enjoyed when we relied much more on in person verbal conversations.

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