Perhaps a daft question, and it may vary between people, but...
If someone is (occasionally or otherwise) "non-verbal", does this relate to oral expression (talking) only, or to all (or some?) forms of verbal expression (e.g. typing a message/post)?
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@neil Nonverbal / non-verbal is typically used to describe autistic people who are unable to speak.
Whilst in some cases it does refer to autistic folks who didn't ever learn to communicate verbally, it doesn't mean that such people never learnt other ways to communicate.
For example, a nonverbal autistic person might have learnt to communicate via nonverbal communication (e.g., body language; gestures; facial expressions; etc.).
Additionally, there are nonverbal autistic people who can read and write written language, even if they cannot communicate verbally.
On a side note, the term nonverbal often gets misused by many people, including neurospicy folks, to refer to somebody experiencing a language centre shutdown, such as due to sensory overload or overwhelm, or even a meltdown.
There's a decent write-up by the National Autistic Society here, though it's definitely a very complex topic and goes beyond what even they have written here.
@SleepyCatten Thank you so much.
@neil No worries at all. It's nice to be able to share something we have some info (and lived experience) about 🥰🩷
We also follow a metric fucktonne of neurospicy content creators, particularly AuDHD ones.
(Did sadly have to unfollow one -- Olivia Lutfallah -- recently though after she turned shill for Gemini AI 😬😔 Suffice to say, she disappointed a lot of people with that.)
@neil When applied to kids anyway I believe it means not talking or unable to talk.
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In the context I've heard it is "not able to produce language". Writing, sign language, mouthing the words is all being verbal.
@neil I've always assumed just speech