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FC in the Schools, Telepathy Tapes Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/26/25 FC in the Schools, Telepathy Tapes Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/26/25

How FC myths coincide with edu-myths—and why even those who don’t believe in telepathy are primed to believe in FC

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Trends in Autism Diagnoses, Language and Literacy, Authorship Katharine Beals 1/29/25 Trends in Autism Diagnoses, Language and Literacy, Authorship Katharine Beals 1/29/25

Scrambling the spectrum, flattening the curve, and making FC seem more plausible

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Language and Literacy, Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review Katharine Beals 6/26/24 Language and Literacy, Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review Katharine Beals 6/26/24

Recapping some reasons why language is impaired in autism—and why degree of impairment correlates with autism severity

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Language and Literacy, Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 6/12/24 Language and Literacy, Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 6/12/24

Recent findings about language comprehension in minimal speakers with autism

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Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/20/24 Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/20/24

Facilitated messages attributed to different people show distinctive styles, but this fails to rule out complete facilitator control

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Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/6/24 Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 3/6/24

Illusions of literacy in nonspeaking autistic people: a response to Jaswal et al. 2024

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Language and Literacy, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, Facilitator Control Katharine Beals 12/13/23 Language and Literacy, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, Facilitator Control Katharine Beals 12/13/23

Can facilitator influence be reduced to co-construction of meaning?

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Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 8/16/23 Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, Language and Literacy Katharine Beals 8/16/23

Spellers but not Readers? Do facilitated individuals ever read books?

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Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy, Critique of Pro-FC Articles Janyce Boynton 8/9/23 Facilitated Communication, Scholarly Article Review, Language and Literacy, Critique of Pro-FC Articles Janyce Boynton 8/9/23

Do Critics “Presume Lack of Competence”? Part V – Review of Broderick and Kasa-Hendrickson

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Facilitated Communication: a thoroughly discredited yet persistent technique


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