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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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FC in Schools, Facilitated Communicaton, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 9/13/23 FC in Schools, Facilitated Communicaton, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method Katharine Beals 9/13/23

Back to School Edition: At What Point Do Accommodations Start Resembling Facilitated Communication?

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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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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, Joint Attention, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 6/21/23 Speech and Language, Joint Attention, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 6/21/23

Why no one can learn their first language without engaging in joint attention behaviors

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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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Authorship, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 3/1/23 Authorship, Spelling to Communicate, Rapid Prompting Method, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 3/1/23

Actually there are published authorship results for S2C/RPM… and they aren’t good

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Spelling to Communicate, FC in the Media, Critiques of Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 2/15/23 Spelling to Communicate, FC in the Media, Critiques of Facilitated Communication Katharine Beals 2/15/23

An inside look at S2C: “We actually discourage them from using their speech while they are spelling”

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Theory of Mind, Scholarly Article Review, Speech and Language, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 2/1/23 Theory of Mind, Scholarly Article Review, Speech and Language, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 2/1/23

Is there really no Theory of Mind deficit in autism? Part VI: problematic references

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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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Scholarly Article Review, Joint Attention, Socio-Cognitive Development, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 7/20/22 Scholarly Article Review, Joint Attention, Socio-Cognitive Development, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 7/20/22

Is Eye Contact Really Overrated?

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Speech and Language, Joint Attention, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 7/6/22 Speech and Language, Joint Attention, Scholarly Article Review, Neuropsychology of Autism Katharine Beals 7/6/22

Is diminished Joint Attention really not a problem for word learning in autism?

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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?

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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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Book Review, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 5/24/21 Book Review, Facilitated Communication, FC in the Media Katharine Beals 5/24/21

Clever Stella (the Dog of Ms. Hunger)

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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

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Facilitated Communication: a thoroughly discredited yet persistent technique


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