Rhetoric was known as the “art of speaking” among the ancient Greeks and Romans. There’s more than a little rhetoric that gets used (cast around) in discussions/debates about autism and causes, vaccines, cures, treatments.
This post is about something else. It is about the “art of speaking,” but not the rhetoric of the ancients, or of those more modern. It’s about what I have to call the “art” of teaching, helping, Charlie to speak.
We really did not know if Charlie could talk when he was much younger. Every sound, every syllable, word, every sort of word-like utterance Charlie produced was remarked …read more