Spelling to Communicate, FC in the Schools, FC in the Courts Katharine Beals 5/14/25 Spelling to Communicate, FC in the Schools, FC in the Courts Katharine Beals 5/14/25 Spelling to Communicate Goes on Trial: Part II Read More FC in the Media, Telepathy Tapes Review Janyce Boynton 2/5/25 FC in the Media, Telepathy Tapes Review Janyce Boynton 2/5/25 Proving Facilitator Authorship in FC/RPM messages: Thoughts About the Telepathy Tapes (Episode 3) Read More 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 Read More 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? Read More 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 Read More Scholarly Article Review, Developmental Apraxia, Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 1/24/24 Scholarly Article Review, Developmental Apraxia, Spelling to Communicate, Facilitated Communication, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 1/24/24 Why apraxia can’t explain away the need for physical touch, held-up letterboards, or hovering prompters Read More Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in the Media, Book Review Katharine Beals 1/10/24 Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in the Media, Book Review Katharine Beals 1/10/24 Falling for Happiness Falls: Is it too much to ask we overcome our skepticism and just believe? Read More 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 Read More 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 Read More 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 Read More Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Scholarly Article Review Katharine Beals 8/24/22 Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Scholarly Article Review Katharine Beals 8/24/22 Do motor difficulties really explain speech/language difficulties in autism? Read More Speech and Language, Joint Attention, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 6/22/22 Speech and Language, Joint Attention, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 6/22/22 Why does Joint Attention look Atypical in Autism—and does it matter? Read More 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) Read More Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 2/16/22 Speech and Language, Motor Abilities, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 2/16/22 Why non-speaking autism probably has nothing to do with motor control problems or speech apraxia Read More Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Facilitator Control, Ethical Issues Katharine Beals 12/1/21 Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Facilitator Control, Ethical Issues Katharine Beals 12/1/21 Why FC isn’t AAC for people with disabilities, but only for their facilitators Read More FC in the Media, Book Review, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 4/23/21 FC in the Media, Book Review, Facilitated Communication, Spelling to Communicate Katharine Beals 4/23/21 J.B. Handley and the ever-changing cure for autism Read More
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