ASHA Responds to WSJ Op-Ed on Rapid Prompting

In a letter to the editor published in the Sept. 27 Wall Street Journal, ASHA President Elise Davis-McFarland defends ASHA's positions that discourage the use of facilitated communication and the rapid prompting method (RPM). The letter is in response to a Sept. 23 op-ed piece in the same publication, written by a blogger with "nonspeaking autism" who claims he learned to communicate with RPM. "Readers [of the op-ed] may come away with the impression that ASHA is the only organization that doesn't recommend RPM," Davis-McFarland says in the letter, noting that the associations for communication sciences and disorders professionals in Ireland, Australia and Canada have similar positions for the same basic reason—the lack of high-quality scientific proof of RPM's efficacy. D...

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