WhyNot--we use letter boards and word boards for some pts (mostly aphasics). It can be tedious, but very effective. Plus, many of the pts create a type of shorthand, much like texting.
I feel sorry for the girl and the mom, but George shouldn’t be feeding the delusion. What has happened to journalism (of this kind)? Pathetic.
Maybe if I hunt and peck for this, it will go back to the original!
tht euicl brir ggicv jmumog ibry iyki lgcu gih.
Wow, that was full of fail :smack:
That is exactly the kind of writing I would strive for if I were entering the Bulwer Lytton bad writing contest. It is so awful that not only do I not want to read the novel, I don’t even want to finish the sentence. And I’m not even counting the second sentence.
Let’s not blame the poor girl. Her mother is the one composing that purple prose.
The mother may not know she’s doing it either.
And I’ve been trying to ouija-board you into fixing the title, Czarcasm.
There was nothing wrong with the title-I was giving an example of what happens when you don’t look at the keyboard while typing.*
*That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
That’s a good point…
girl: “s…a…v…e…”
mother: “Is my little genius is trying to spell ‘stave’?”
<confirmation bias>
mother: “Right then, ‘stave’ is a lovely word choice there, I couldn’t have done better myself. What’s next?”
girl: “m…e…”
Well, maybe if I hunt and peck for your result…
tbt euivl brir hhivn jmumoh inru iiko lhvu guh.
Huh…actually, that wasn’t all that shoddy. For comparison purposes:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
thr wuick brie, goc jumprf ibrt yjt ldcu dig,
tht euicl brir ggicv jmumog ibry iyki lgcu gih.
tbt euivl brir hhivn jmumoh inru iiko lhvu guh.
Yeah, could’ve been worse.
I’ll take “Best Game of Telephone Ever” for $500, Alex.
I recall an episode of L.A. Law involving an autistic boy and his Mom who believed she was having “facilitated communication” with him. In the courtroom, his ability abruptly broke down when he was asked to describe things that were within his field of view but screened from Mom’s.
I’m surprised someone hasn’t thought of this before. Alternately, they could show the girl something (and not her mom) then ask her to describe it.
I get that a lot, but not often in the past pluperfect.[/ New England accent]
I believe that was Law & Order-unless they both did the same plot.
On reflection, I think it was L&O. Certainly the kind of thing McCoy would pull during cross-exam, anyway.
Any competant DA would, IMO.
It was actually very sad…he asked the mother to look away, kindly, and showed a picture to the boy.
I think the mother really thought her son was communicating with her. To find out that he wasn’t must have been quite a blow.
Naturally-I believe they say most of the time it’s sub-conscious-they don’t actually realize that they’re the ones actually communicating.
In that episode, though, the mother supported the doctor on trial-even though some of his methods were insanely abusive, she still approved of them.
And afterwards, the DAs were wondering whether, even in the interest of truth and justice, they had done the right thing to deprive the mother of the illusion that she was communicating with her son.
You have to be joking.