How do we communicate?

After 43 years, I still wonder, why people receive that people with disabilities such as cerebral Palsy, especially those who are who are non verbal are lower of intelligence or as intellectual disabilities. As I watch my non verbal, talk with them and laugh with them.  I can't help wonder what it is like for people who are also non-verbal and don't enjoy the depth of friendship that we share.

Recent debate over facilitate communication has me hot under the collar and the organisations who advocate for people with disabilities consider even questioning this means of communication, just does my mind in. This an issue I thought we put to bed in the late 1980's.

There is no doubt in my mind that facilitated communication is a valid from of communication. I guess due to my life experience I have never stopped to question other people's intelligence. I am yet to meet anyone I can not communicate with on some level.

And yet there are other people I meet and (verbally) with talk and yet fail to communicate. The presence of saying something to someone does not mean meaningful communication has talk place, nor does it tell you any thing of the intellectual  ability of people who are talking.

For example when the shop assistance ask you how you day is, are you speaking because that's what people do or are you having a meaningfully communication with someone.  I assume if you are reading this you at least have the comparsity to understand the difference between dialogue and communication. If not ask of parent of a teenager?

Communication implies a level of understanding between two people, if I am with a non-verbal friend and they laugh at my  joke that tells you they have heard something fully and thus communication has taken place. The fact my friend does not have the motor skills to use a communication devices does not incidate on any level their ability to understand and communicate with me.

I wish everyone at some stage of their life had to learn, eye language. Yes I said eye language. People waking from commas use it offer, before the ability to speak returns.  Even people who can make some noise, like laugher I find prefer to talk with their eyes.  You know by some eyes whether you connect of not and people eyes often tell me they're are talking but not connecting.

Can facilitated be manipulated of course?  So we should dismiss it and not let people access that means of communication.  I am not allow to surgical remove your ability to talk so why should anyone deny anyone the right to attempt to communicate. Just because it is manipulated by a few dishonest people?

I do wonder if our failure to communicate non-verbally saids more about our own intelligence rather than the person were talking too. ..

This quote just seem to fit