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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, History of FC, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 7/24/24 Scholarly Article Review, History of FC, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 7/24/24

Early Works by Barry Prizant: Laying the groundwork for disbelief in FC

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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, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Speech and Language, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 7/5/23 Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Speech and Language, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 7/5/23

How “non-speaking” and those who call themselves “non-speakers” muddy the waters in facilitated communication

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Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 5/10/23 Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 5/10/23

A final post on autism-related challenges that are supposed to explain away our concerns about FC: motor control, echolalia, and word retrieval

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Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 4/12/23 Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 4/12/23

Do facilitated individuals have motor difficulties that explain away our concerns about FC? Part I

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Speech and Language, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 11/9/22 Speech and Language, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 11/9/22

Is there really nothing inherently atypical about language development in autism? Part II

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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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Book Review, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 11/10/21 Book Review, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 11/10/21

Uniquely Human: Laying the groundwork for belief in FC

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Facilitated Communication: a thoroughly discredited yet persistent technique


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