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Spelling to Communicate, FC in Schools, FC in the Courts, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 5/28/25 Spelling to Communicate, FC in Schools, FC in the Courts, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 5/28/25

Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part III

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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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Spelling to Communicate, Authorship, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 11/13/24 Spelling to Communicate, Authorship, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 11/13/24

In which Vikram Jaswal fails to establish the authenticity of S2C for non-speakers

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Spelling to Communicate, Presume Competence, Motor Abilities Katharine Beals 8/7/24 Spelling to Communicate, Presume Competence, Motor Abilities Katharine Beals 8/7/24

New takes on apraxia, miracles, presuming competence et al. from S2C proponents

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Scholarly Article Review, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 5/1/24 Scholarly Article Review, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 5/1/24

Virtual facilitation: a means to independence or yet another high-tech distraction?

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FC in the Media, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 4/17/24 FC in the Media, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 4/17/24

A psychologist overlooks the science and a journalist, the full story

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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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Scholarly Article Review, Speech and Language, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 7/19/23 Scholarly Article Review, Speech and Language, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 7/19/23

Does a subgroup of minimally-speaking autistic individuals have close-to-normal comprehension skills? A critique of Belmonte et al., 2013

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Speech and Language, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 10/12/22 Speech and Language, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 10/12/22

Autism, figurative language, empathy, and “autistic culture”

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Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in Schools, FC and the Legal System Katharine Beals 9/28/22 Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in Schools, FC and the Legal System Katharine Beals 9/28/22

Science prevails in another victory for a Pennsylvania school district

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Theory of Mind, Speech and Language, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 6/8/22 Theory of Mind, Speech and Language, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 6/8/22

Autism and Theory of Mind: a critique of Gernsbacher & Frymiare

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Scholarly Article Review, Social Motivation, Joint Attention, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 5/25/22 Scholarly Article Review, Social Motivation, Joint Attention, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 5/25/22

Social motivation in autism: a critique of Jaswal & Akhtar (2019)

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FC in the Media, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 3/30/22 FC in the Media, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 3/30/22

Deconstructing an interview with Vikram Jaswal

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Scholarly Article Review, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 5/12/21 Scholarly Article Review, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 5/12/21

A recent eye-tracking study fails to reveal agency in assisted autistic communication

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Book Review, Spelling to Communicate, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 4/6/21 Book Review, Spelling to Communicate, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 4/6/21

Review of J.B. Handley’s Underestimated: an Autism Miracle

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Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, Authorship Katharine Beals 3/22/21 Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, Authorship Katharine Beals 3/22/21

From Eye Tracking to EEGs—anything but a simple message passing test

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Facilitated Communication: a thoroughly discredited yet persistent technique


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