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@aescling japan has excellent taste in flowers, as always

@ljwrites ugh yes you are almost certainly right about all of this :/

Since society is so verbally dominated there is certainly a logic to encouraging at least baseline fluency, but all kids should have choices about how they communicate & be given the tools that work best for them!

@ljwrites i mean obv this shouldn’t be your primary mechanism for deciding whether or not to utilize it *anyway*, tater’s needs & comfort should come first

@ljwrites i’m not up on the research but my understanding was AAC normally aids verbal speech development rather than hindering?

@Lore ah in that case I wouldn’t worry too much — it’s very hard to kill off!

@Lore from what I understand, it’s benefits are that its sturdy & low growing, which makes it a good ground cover and its flowers provide nectar to bees. Nice enough characteristics to have in a plant, certainly, but there are lots of native plants that will do both of those things & also be better suited to the local ecosystem.

@Lore hopefully someone else will have a fuller / more useful reply! But since it looked like no one had answered yet I figured I’d share what I did know

@Lore if you mean Lamium purpureum, then it is native to Europe — some plants do manage to provide useful ecological niches in nonnative contexts, particularly ones that have been around for a while like dead nettles but I’d generally recommend choosing a similar native plant if at all possible